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How women entrepreneurs in India are challenging social and cultural norms

The Next Web

In India, the proportion of women in paid work is among the lowest in the world, at just over 23% – a figure which contrasts sharply with the corresponding rate of over 78% for men. Opportunities for women to enter employment in the country are limited by a range of factors.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

ReadWriteStart

It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI. Next Annette McClellan presented DaisyClip , a non-surgical contraception device for women that she is in the process of syndicating a $1.8 million financing round for. The business idea was not very well fleshed out, and needs a lot of work still.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

They don’t feel the need to do a deal in NYC today, India next week, SF the following. They take fewer bets, they don’t mind being counter-conventional and investing in things that make others scratch their heads. Markups do not equal success and sometimes equal zeroes for early investors.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

ReadWriteStart

I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. During this week's roundtable I addressed a commonly held critique of the 1M/1M program: that we're focusing on the basics and stating the obvious. Photo by tatlin.

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What is a good site or Gmail extension for an angel investor to manage their startup deals?

Gust

What Gust does is to greatly simplify the whole investment process, ensuring that investors have all the information they need to make smart decisions, and providing an integrated suite of powerful tools for collaboration, syndication, communication and diligence connecting entrepreneurs and investors.

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What is a good site or Gmail extension for an angel investor to manage their startup deals?

Gust

What Gust does is to greatly simplify the whole investment process, ensuring that investors have all the information they need to make smart decisions, and providing an integrated suite of powerful tools for collaboration, syndication, communication and diligence connecting entrepreneurs and investors.

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How to find a good programmer or web developer

www.peterdrew.net

I personally use coders online from Asia, India and Russia. They will soon be able to generate a lot. and any time you have put into this person will be lost. Repeat the above as many times as needed to find that coder, who only codes and does nothing else. This post is about outsourcing coders. I have full time staff in my office aswell.