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4 Ways To Transform Your Side Gig Into Your Main Show

YoungUpstarts

Even in seventh grade in my native India, ambition boiled in me. But admission to medical school in India is highly competitive and I missed the cutoff criteria by one-tenth of a point. Here are a few tips for those who long to shake loose from their current careers and venture into something that drives their passions: 1.

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ShopAtPlaces.com – Replacing The Middleman In India’s Retail Scene

YoungUpstarts

E-commerce is getting huge in India – according to industry watchers, the industry is expected to grow a compound annual growth rate of 57 per cent and is likely to reach US$34.2 billion by 2015. “(There) was too much flab and leakage in the whole supply chain,” he explains.

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What salary does the founder of your favorite startup get? Probably not a very high one

The Next Web

Average salaries around the world vary from a low of $30,208 in India to a high of $72,363 in Australia. It aligns his interest with the equity holders. With the exception of India, the salary ranges for startup founders around the world (see the charts at the end of this post) are remarkably similar.

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! mba india. Also, even if the productivity is increasing, it is still far from the 0.75-1.0 Amit said.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Y Combinator : They provide a series of AA equity financing documents that are written with simpler words so start-up companies will have an easier starting point. aggregation.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. Impact tech investors include Bridges Fund Managements, DBL, Accion, Elevar equity and Patamar, among others.

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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

This was also the period when VC started expanding seriously in emerging markets like India and China, and many LPs put new capital into these OUS funds. a VC fund’s entire portfolio in aggregate, net of management fees and carried interest) a good return from an LP’s perspective would be 2.5-3.0x So at a fund level (e.g.

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