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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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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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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. Another issue is that India has had no catalog shopping industry, so the consumer psyche is not used to buying products that would be delivered later. Photo by brokenarts.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

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Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies. Photo by thesaint.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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Having turned down all overtures for investment, Zoho continues merrily on in its bootstrapping path. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. Statisco Economic Analytics.

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Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation

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Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. If you have to raise money, try to do so as convertible notes. Photo by lco.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

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He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Marcial Cambronero, also from Costa Rica, pitched HandIt.me, an intriguing concept for "social shipping."

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures.

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