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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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

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. These resellers buy devices from the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

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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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI. Her market penetration plan is to start with India, and she wanted to know what kinds of options/connections we could provide. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. Photo by kipcurry.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

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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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at the session: Dublin, Ireland, and Kolkata, India. In India, five of the seven major metros are seeing significant improvement in entrepreneurial energy. Let's look at today's presenters. Discuss.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Neelam Dwivedi of NeelAgil Technologies Private Ltd aims to help millions of people treat their diabetes The Forrest Four-Cast: February 19, 2020 The next time you’re out in a crowd, look around. NeelAgil Technologies Private Limited , one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , is determined to change that.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. OrangeScape.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. In fact, I was pleased to even see an entrepreneur from Kolkata, India, the city in which I was born and raised. Up last, Leandro Telles from Brazil, pitched ledface , a knowledge management technology company that still needs a business strategy.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

It is particularly satisfying for me to work with these entrepreneurs because I have long believed that India needs to diversify out of pure labor arbitrage. Other discussions on India's need for product companies have also been equally controversial. I like this business very much, and believe it can be a large, and important company.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

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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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

But you must be doing real engineering of some kind. Data from OpenVC shows that VCs typically focus on 2 technology classes. Out of 125 funds in the database, 33 state they invest in 1 type of technology (e.g. software”); 43 invest in 2 types of technology (e.g., (Rare exceptions to $6M with extreme traction.).

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. I also suggested that Ashni focuses on funding science, technology and engineering program students, since there is so much energy today around America's role in the world, and whether the country is losing its edge in science and technology. Ten people paying $37.50

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Some examples include Flipkart and Redbus in India, and Freshdiet in the US. Malaysia, India, China, Italy, Argentina, wherever), you are better off raising money locally. Suresh has an Application Platform-as-a-Service (APaas) business that already has a number of multinational customers, albeit all acquired in India.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It took me some time to figure out a title and I eventually settled for “Building European Champions” as the region has proven its ability to generate very successful venture outcomes and will continue to be the birthplace of many successful technology companies. Why Eastern Europe? mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

Uma is a member of the 1M/1M premium program , and has already started validating his idea with several online classified players in India. Interesting technology, and I will be working with him to build a comprehensive go-to-market strategy as part of the premium program. Photo by duchesssa. Discuss.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

As the range of ingenuity in the digital space grew, the competition evolved to become the Interactive Awards, and ultimately expanded into the Interactive Innovation Awards, reflecting the increasingly multifaceted and diverse ecosystem of technological achievement and creative work. immersive technologies have come so far in the past year.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

First up, Nimesh Khiara from Mumbai, India, discussed StopWaitin , a restaurant reservation system that includes managing waiting lists and is similar in concept to OpenTable. Fortunately, there are numerous such companies in India. For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we teamed up with the Indian Angel Network (IAN).

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

What appears clear to me today is how fundamentally the Internet is changing business processes, and the advent of nifty social media tools and technologies that plug into core business processes like lead nurturing are a powerful force. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Since they have already connected with OpenTable, I think they are a natural to explore a partnership with since their customer base is already so familiar with using technology to promote themselves. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

As far as customer acquisition is concerned, we discussed, again the power of organic search engine optimization. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You can register for the next roundtable here. Photo by lco.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2020

According to a report by the influencer marketing hub, 69% of brands expect that they will decrease the ad spend in 2020. This is the right time for you to focus on the local search engine optimization (SEO) to ensure that the internet’s eyeballs are on you when people type in the relevant search queries. Liquidity is now king.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Technology impacts all facets of human life, and sometimes it can save it. That’s the mission driving products like Hemafuse , one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020. Prior to Sisu, Yarina founded a medical device non-profit working with rural mobile clinics in India.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Unlike societies like India where the extended family is deeply integrated into the fabric of society, and where domestic help is affordable and abundant, Western societies tend to consist of more nuclear families. Sramana has a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Gnosis India. Next Anuj Mishra with Gnosis India presented an idea of doing highly technical workshops (CAD, Robotics) for students all around India, including rural India. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. I asked him to abandon this idea and find a better one.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 30, 2011

India and Israel pitch their businesses. First, Senthil Natchimuthu from Coimbatire, India, discussed directdialogs. Their penetration in India seems relatively low, given that Bollywood is really an Indian phenomenon, its international following notwithstanding. directdialogs. Roundtable photo by Shinichi Sugiyama. Discuss.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. We have the machine learning technology to take these disparate, small pieces of molecules, and stitch them together to form an actual anti-COVID drug." Eric Ries : That's a remarkable use of social media. Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

This is a greenhouse technology to grow fresh agricultural produce. She, however, has framed the business model as a franchise, whereas in my opinion, this is a technology licensing and services business. Next, Priyanka Bhatnagar from Pune, India, pitched Priyanka Bhatnagar Jewellery & Accessories , an e-commerce jewelry line.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

First up, Sumit Jha from New Delhi, India, presented EduMark , a real estate education program for the nascent Indian market that Sumit is already selling successfully, and wondering how to take to the next level of scale. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. Besides the fact that he is from London, I could not figure out why; instead of expanding the franchise in India, it makes sense to jump to London. On April 17, I was in Pune for a 1M/1M live event.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

OrangeScape positions itself as an Application Platform As A Service (APaaS) provider, and has some marquee customers in India including Unilever, Citibank, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Sterlite. And in comes the Google App Engine as Google's offering in this context. Building new apps is also not as simple. Enter OrangeScape.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. Last up was Ayesha Hazra from Kolkata, India, discussing Magne Consulting, a retail strategy consulting firm. Magne Consulting. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

For example, say, Barclays has a customer in the UK who also wants a bank account in India. Barclays may want to have a partnership with State Bank of India and offer the customer an easy, seamless process to open the second account. Easy as it may sound, this is a very complex process, fraught with regulatory issues. Discuss.

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