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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. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

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At today's roundtable, we had three niche e-commerce entrepreneurs and two e-commerce infrastructure entrepreneurs. With enterprise customers, this would result in tremendous exit barriers, making sales cycles long and involved, which a small startup will find hard to withstand. GrillGrate. JCLABoutique.com.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

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Vrushali is moderator of a forum for technical documentation professionals and gets a lot of her clients through that channel. 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. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune

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Manoj is experiencing a long sales cycle of close to 12 months, but he has already created a sustainable company that has revenues and profits. go-to-market strategy, and I advised him to try to recruit a channel partner like SuccessFactor or Taleo with major presence in the talent management space. Discuss.

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