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Observations from my trip to India

Version One Ventures

I just returned from a weeklong trip to India, having spent a few days each in Delhi and Bangalore to meet with local entrepreneurs and investors. Noah Smith recently wrote about why everyone should get excited about India’s prospects. I had only a few connections in India before this trip.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On India

ReadWriteStart

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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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

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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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends For The Decade

ReadWriteStart

In fact, in the discussion on JuJu brands is yet another validation of the verticalization and niche-ization of the Internet. This week, I published an article called The Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends where I have discussed this at length. Photo by yirsh. Discuss.

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Startup goal: be the leader when technology approaches 10% adoption

The Equity Kicker

With this slide in her Internet Trends deck Mary Meeker is making the point that as internet penetration passes through 10-20% in India companies matching the scale and significance of Netscape, Yahoo, Amazon, Tencent and Alibaba will be created. We are investing heavily in these verticals.

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First-mover disadvantage: The challenges of hitting the market before it’s ready

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This is a guest column by Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for internet startups at his blog Platform Thinking. Amazon is entering India. In effect, Amazon knew all along that there was a significant ‘First-mover Disadvantage’ to launching in India.

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Building a mobile app startup is about solving problems, not chasing ideas

The Next Web

Building a mobile app startup is the “I want to build an Internet startup” of the late 1990s. For example, SnapDeal is a Groupon clone in India with localized content and features. Every business vertical has issues that will range from areas in marketing, customer acquisition, customer service, sales, operations and others.

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