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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

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First up, Satya Choppadhandi from Bangalore, India, presented Evolutech Networks, a company that manufactures wireless energy monitoring devices for the smart home. The smart home business is still in the very early stages in India, and it will take some time before Evolutech ramps up.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

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a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The product has won a national award from the president of India for its empowerment of people with disabilities.

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Congratulations to Upwork

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In my case, in the early days of oDesk, I didn’t start with why, but I quickly discovered it. My first role was in sales and the buyers on the platform absolutely loved the access to global freelancers, the low hourly rates, and the full transparency and flexibility in the system. Upwork had truly life-changing potential.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Business Schools And Early Stage Entrepreneurship

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Next Badri Badrinarayanan V S, from Chennai, India, pitched DiaSof , a software-based solution for disease management of diabetes patients in India. Apparently, India has 50 million diabetic and another 40 million pre-diabetic patients. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Jay does not have that yet.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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These are women in their 40s to early 60s, often shopping for younger women. Kristen is doing about $70,000 year-to-date, and expects to hit $200,000 for the 2010 fiscal year based on her holiday sales projections. She also has a secondary audience who shop for gifts. Her main questions were around customer acquisition and financing.

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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

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New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. While focus is essential in early startup days, we live in a hyperconnected world, and a global network and perspective is becoming essential to startup success.

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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

thebarefootvc

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. While focus is essential in early startup days, we live in a hyperconnected world, and a global network and perspective is becoming essential to startup success.