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

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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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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

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Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book.

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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

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As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. Startups in this category have the know how, mindset, confidence and product differentiation to address the global market from day one. Global from day one (GD1). In this case, I urge founders to start in the US first (i.e. Consumer Facing B2C.

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How To Succeed In A Saturated Industry

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How do you launch a new search engine when Google is omnipresent? The company’s brand of smartphones are extremely popular in emerging markets like China and India. Carving a little niche for yourself helps differentiate yourself from the rest and thus enables your business to penetrate the market. So what did DDG do?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Guerrilla P.R. & SEO Most Profitable Customer Acquisition Strategies

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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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The Impact of Community

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Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. I'm an engineer. When I was living in the slum in India, I wanted my child to be an entrepreneur.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

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First up, Vrushali Humnabadkar from Pune, India, presented Penworks, a technical documentation outsourcing service. I suggested LinkedIn, oDesk, and eLance with the caveat that the field is extremely competitive and crowded and differentiation would be tough to achieve. Happy Grasshopper. Photo by svilen001.