ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

I will be traveling in India in April, and doing live roundtables in three cities: Chennai (April 9) , Mumbai (April 16) , and Pune (April 17). Next Jigar Doshi, also from Chennai, India, pitched 3gSimplified , in effect, a comparative shopping solution for mobile plans, which are apparently quite complex in the Indian market.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. The process of raising money in Asia is very different from raising money in Silicon Valley and, frankly, it’s not nearly as easy. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2013

NYC may not have the notoriety of Silicon Valley but since it’s such a massive hub for business on the East Coast, they make their mark. Thailand is also very close to other countries with vibrant startup culture such as India and China, providing access to an unimaginable amount of resources. New York City.

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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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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Asia – especially in countries such as India, China, Vietnam – is fast becoming the place where many entrepreneurs, whether locally born or lured back from Silicon Valley, are setting up shop.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In Beijing we hadn’t seen air so badly polluted since we had been in Agra in India in the winter where I swear there was a day you could wave your hand in front of you and see traces of it in the air (and their excuse was they burn dung for heat.).

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

In 2010, Kranthi was hired as a full-time software engineer by International Technological University (ITU), the Silicon Valley industry-oriented school where he had earned his second MS degree. Looking to Solve Problems.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

The hosts were Girish Joshi of Microsoft India and 1M/1M Ambassadors, Praveen Karoshi, Rajesh Nair and Thejas Gupta. As for the presenters, first up, Abinash Karana from Bangalore, India, presented Bizosys and his product 10screens , a specification capture technology for software development workflows.

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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. It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Jade Magnet.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Some examples include Flipkart and Redbus in India, and Freshdiet in the US. Should those entrepreneurs who have built their business elsewhere move to Silicon Valley to raise money? Malaysia, India, China, Italy, Argentina, wherever), you are better off raising money locally. Suresh is a 1M/1M premium member.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

They later started a company based in Silicon Valley that became one of the fastest growing companies ever, with almost all of its growth coming from outside the US. This is also the first year that smartphone sales overtook feature phone sales globally – driven by sales in India.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2011

He recently founded The Startup Centre , an India-based accelerator for early stage start-ups, and also a hub for initiatives related to tech, design and entrepreneurship. We communicated with Anand who kindly shared with us his thoughts on the start-up scene in India. Could you share with us what’s the start-up culture like in India?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

This (somewhat liberally translated) Chinese proverb is something you hear often in Silicon Valley these days. The device is now used in six countries; in 3 states in India alone there are now 11,000 devices in the field, saving the lives of millions of babies each year. by Pascal Finette from Singularity University.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

And the third was a discussion on Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. 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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The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 30, 2012

10% goes to profitable companies ready to grow (this data is for the US & UK; the same chart for China & India is skewed way to the right). When you look at the stats, 5% of rounds happen on an idea. 25% during product development. 60% are for revenue generating companies with a sellable product.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

In Silicon Valley, we've had access to the tribal knowledge, but no one has tried to capture it, derive a methodology out of it, and package it in a way that entrepreneurs around the world can benefit from this knowledge and expertise. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. Ten people paying $37.50 ResortHunt.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book. Anupam has serious segmentation issues. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In Beijing we hadn’t seen air so badly polluted since we had been in Agra in India in the winter where I swear there was a day you could wave your hand in front of you and see traces of it in the air (and their excuse was they burn dung for heat.).

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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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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

The ingenuity of a rural farmer in Africa is on par with some of the greatest innovation I’ve seen in the heart of Silicon Valley, particularly in light of the lack of “formal” training and mentorship many of us experience in the developed world.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

When it comes to launching a startup, most founders think they should reside in the United States, Silicon Valley, in particular, to have a successful business. But there are other regions in the world that might not be as fancy as Silicon Valley but have a remarkable potential for growth.

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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

APRIL 14, 2011

First up, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, presented Freshdesk , a SaaS solution for multi-channel customer support including knowledge base and social CRM support. The product has won a national award from the president of India for its empowerment of people with disabilities. Interviewstreet.com. Quantum Arc. ET Interactive.

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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

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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Up and Running

DECEMBER 19, 2014

An editor pulls back the curtain on Silicon Valley bro culture. If you’ve never heard a critique of Silicon Valley from a social justice perspective, it’s a great learning opportunity. The Abu Dhabi skyline at dusk. It can be unwelcoming, and sometimes even hostile.

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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 is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Statisco Economic Analytics. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

from a trip to India and spoke of places with pigs and cows roaming around and no plumbing. But I did write a letter to Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India, in 1982 before my first trip there. And how much of it was based on luck, and how I could easily have been that child in an orphanage in India.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2011

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. Now he is slated to enter Booth at the University of Chicago in the fall.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

I know Silicon Valley and the MBA types look down upon lifestyle businesses. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. I encouraged Todd to keep building. Well, I don't. Build to Enjoy is a strategy that I am very much in favor of. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

We're trying to bring the lessons we have learned in Silicon Valley to a million entrepreneurs. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. However, 1M/1M is a development economics project. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected.

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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. She is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and strategy consultant who writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is the author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2019

The startup is backed by Y Combinator, one of Silicon Valley’s premiere accelerators, as well as Nexus Venture Partners, a venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley and India. The venture capital firm oversees 1.5 billion dollars across its funds and was founded in 2006. According to Apollo.io

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. Next, Rajeev Pareek discussed his rural BPO idea. Rajeev came with a list of commodity services like transcription, digitization, etc. Photo by thesaint.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

She was married to a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur who ran a couple of major companies and had a brilliant career. In some cases, and this situation is particularly prevalent in places like Silicon Valley and Wall Street where wealth flows abundantly, women quit because there is no real pressure to earn money.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. The trap most of them fell into (common almost everywhere): they were reading the blog posts and advice of Silicon Valley-based companies and believing that it uniformly applied to them. What’s been missing from regions outside of Silicon Valley is a “playbook.”

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