2008 Bootstrapping Business Model India 
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 16, 2011
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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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. 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. PowerStores.in. Photo by brokenarts.
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ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. I pointed Zubair to a couple of case studies of bootstrapping using services to get more of his core product built; in parallel, I will help him pursue institutional funding. Next, Rajeev Pareek discussed his rural BPO idea.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
And EVEN if you ARE an experienced entrepreneur, all but just a few VCs still want to see customer validation, business model validation and traction, before they will invest. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. Next comes the topic of angels. Photo by takatuka.
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak. Gnosis India. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. Photo by wax115.
ReadWriteStart
AUGUST 4, 2011
One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. Irit, however, needs to think through some of the details of the business model, pricing model, and positioning. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.
ReadWriteStart
AUGUST 11, 2011
On the topic of business models, Spencer proposed building traffic and then selling the company, which I pushed back on. We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably.
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