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

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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. In the future, the channel fee will, perhaps, go down. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here.

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

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On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. after a 24-hour journey from California. First up, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, presented Freshdesk , a SaaS solution for multi-channel customer support including knowledge base and social CRM support. At 11 a.m., Invention Labs.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

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Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”. San Francisco, California. 2011 Holiday. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011.

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

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I understand channel conflict, Timbuk2, but this is just plain not being hungry. Go to the Multi-Channel Funnels folder in Google analytics and look at two other yummy reports: Time Lag and Path Length. YouTube TV’s price just went up from $35 to $40 (they added more channels). Yet, when I want to pay full price on www.timbuk2.com

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How we changed the way the U.S. government commercializes science: Errol Arkilic — Part 1 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111

Steve Blank

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. And right about that time you were publishing your notes to the Lean LaunchPad course in spring of 2011, Stanford, E245.

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How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps

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16th September 2011 by Harrison Weber. In California? Finding the Perfect Scuba Diving job « « eBook RevieweBook Review says: September 28, 2011 at 9:30 pm. [.] Finding the Perfect Scuba Diving job « « eBook RevieweBook Review says: September 28, 2011 at 9:30 pm. [.] Part of The Next Web family.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

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The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here. Said from Orange County, California, pitched MapWide.com , which is supposed to be a collection of sites like MapDentist.com, MapDoctors.com, etc. MapWide.com. Next, Dr. S.