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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

During today's roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

ReadWriteStart

With enterprise customers, this would result in tremendous exit barriers, making sales cycles long and involved, which a small startup will find hard to withstand. Now, e-commerce has had extremely slow penetration in India, one of the key reasons being the lack of reliability of the delivery and logistics chain.

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Finding new Market Opportunities in Food Business: A Case Study of GOPA Pakistan

Where to Play

A good indicator for this fact is the growing number of Chai-Startups in India. Time to revenue is low due to short transactional volume and the short sale cycle. This opportunity has a short sale cycle with quick payments. The sale cycle with Govt. Opportunity Nr.

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Sales Representative India -HR Software

Transformify

Within the framework of enlarging our client base and increasing product penetration among our clients in India, the Sales representatives are responsible for sales of the Transformify's HR software portfolio.

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Bootstrap Mentality: Key Ingredient For Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

In the startup world, bootstrapping essentially means funding your own venture and not being too dependent on external sources. Let’s face it, to have a bootstrapped startup you need grit and total faith and conviction in your product, something a lot of new startup’s find it difficult to conjure. Product first, sales later.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune

ReadWriteStart

Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits. On April 17, I was in Pune for a 1M/1M live event.

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How To Lose Fat And Gain Muscle With Venture Capital

David Teten

Dr. Atul Gawande has a fascinating article on the BetterBirth Project, a rare successful effort to promote behavior change, in this case in reducing infant mortality in India. As he observes, behavior change (such as prevention) is possible, it’s just expensive.