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

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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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How To Lose Fat And Gain Muscle With Venture Capital

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of US annual medical costs in 2008, compared with 6.5% According to the CDC’s funding data , just $32 billion of 2010-2014 spending was related to “prevention”, vs. a total of $168 billion for all disease categories combined. All venture capital and NIH funding data for CY 2010 – 2014 in USA. The data is painful. a decade prior.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune

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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. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

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First up, Vrushali Humnabadkar from Pune, India, presented Penworks, a technical documentation outsourcing service. For enterprises and small businesses, managing a systematic sales cycle is crucial, and before having telemarketing reps call prospects, a few rounds of Stanzr events may be an efficient way to move them down the sales funnel.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

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Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received. ► 2010. (5).