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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India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

In my post Making Money With Blogs , I have articulated some of my thoughts on the subject and presented some possible models that would enable blogs and small media properties to sustain themselves with a proper revenue framework. One of them is the 1M/1M Affiliate Program we announced today at the roundtable.

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India Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Affiliate 115

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price.

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Startup Social Media India Acquisition 361

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 23, 2020

For example, if you were a software engineer based in India, you are well within your rights to sell your services as an outsourced contractor to a UK company. However, as a citizen of India, you would not be allowed to become an employee of that company without first obtaining a work VISA. The latter is available to everyone.

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India Startup Software Engineering Incubator 91

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

#10- Be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global. India has been known for 1000’s of years for health and beauty routines /ideas like Ayurveda/Yoga, which have derived inspiration from Nature. We felt that we should be the brand to share this wealth of knowledge from India to the world. 20- Various ways.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review SEO 147

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

They provide a hands-on transformation and revenue growth partner for B2B technology companies. Prior to working with Citius, he helped global businesses generate up to $200M in annual recurring revenue and realise valuations of $1Bn+. Transformation of Mobile Handset business. billion in market capital.

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Founder B2B Private Equity India 122

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. 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. GrillGrate. Photo by brokenarts.

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India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. In fact, I was pleased to even see an entrepreneur from Kolkata, India, the city in which I was born and raised. The world we live in today is truly global, and I am proud of the 1M/1M initiative's ability to support this global business network.

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Brazil India Israel Entrepreneur 115

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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Costa Rica Incubator Silicon Valley India 115

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. It is harder to raise capital, you need to execute fast and choose the largest market with highest achievable revenue potential as your beach head market] E.G. BuzzCity, Mig33, TMGamer, ImpulseFlyer, Reebonz etc. Global from day one (GD1).

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Singapore Technical Cofounder Product Marketing 178

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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Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI. Photo by kipcurry.

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India Green Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

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. In India, five of the seven major metros are seeing significant improvement in entrepreneurial energy. Let's look at today's presenters.

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Silicon Valley Ireland India Entrepreneur 124

Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

New donors now constitute a fourth of their total YouTube donation revenue. ARMMAN , a nonprofit based in India, built an AI-based predictive model that evaluated the risk of expectant mothers who were likely to drop out of telehealth outreach programs. Again, human oversight is a crucial element in a successful AI strategy.

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Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Government ChatGPT 52

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.

Entrepreneur 118

Entrepreneur India Technical Review Los Angeles 118

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.

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Interestingly, research compiled from messaging threat protection service provider Cloudmark’s Global Threat Network actually places the United States as the top country in the world in terms of volume of email spam, followed by Brazil and France. Global Ranking for Volume of Email Spam. About 40% of SMS in India is spam.

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Email Global SMS Malaysia 157

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds , Alex and I explore the company's journey to $200 Million in revenue, while their VCs wrote them off. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction. So, please don't get discouraged; there are many paths to success. Statisco Economic Analytics.

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North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet 116

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Accenture opened massive operations in India & China and continued its industry dominance. Since that date the S&P 500 is up 2.45% while Accenture stock is up 206% with revenue of $23 billion and a market cap of $32 billion. The things that always differentiated Accenture?

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). Next, Rajeev Pareek discussed his rural BPO idea. Photo by thesaint.

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Cloud Fractional CTO Entrepreneur Bandwidth 117

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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Advertising SMS Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 116

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).

India 116

India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical 116

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. That's why, I advised Gio to keep going with further execution on his business and build more revenue traction. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price.

Social Media 218

Social Media India Acquisition China 218

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Overall, I like this notion of social shipping, since as we become a more global world, and as e-commerce takes off in more geographies, this could be a service not only applicable to Costa Rica, but much more broadly in many nations. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. Words To Live By. Ten people paying $37.50

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Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

A lot of money can be made with this product, and Rajan needs to build it without any outside capital - that is, with customer money - that is, with revenue - for a long while yet. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). Photo by lco.

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Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

As a result, corporate R&D organizations have been producing sustaining innovations that protect and prolong the life of existing business models and their products and revenue streams. Address the global creation of innovation: Disruptive innovation is now created around the world by companies of any size, many of them startups.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Global economic growth is determined by powerful markets, which are becoming more and more sophisticated. India’s economy is lucrative to say the least. The ever-increasing volume of foreign investments in India represents the main monetary source for economic development. At present, India is the world’s fourth-largest economy.

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Israel Russia China United Kingdom 113

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 19, 2019

This year, I added companies from India and China with the help of a number of friends from those communities?—?a a nod to the growing global importance of those two startup ecosystems. I’d also point folks to Stanford’s Andy Rachleff’s terrific list , which he publishes each fall with a similar theme.

Startup 24

Startup DC India Software Review 24

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

Last week, a chart in the Wall Street Journal listed private companies globally that have raised capital at $1 billion-plus valuations from venture capital firms. Globalization and resulting economic prosperity has created more wealth around the world. Suddenly, everyone’s worth a billion dollars. Or so it seems.

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Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Investment Bankers 63

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

After peaking at $38 billion revenue more than a decade ago, the industry stabilized last year at $16.5 In fact, digital will drive growth this year in 10 of the 20 largest global music markets. Digital is now the majority of revenues in markets such as the US, India, Norway and Sweden. Digital Music by Country. .

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North America Norway Sweden Japan 155

Hearpreneur

JULY 24, 2020

While America may be taking a step back in terms of entrepreneurship, countries such as India and China which have greatly improved the education and resources available to their citizens will benefit from an increase in ingenuity in the future. Thanks to Bruno Pešec, Pesec Global ! #14- million workers and generate revenue of $1.9

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Security Demand 156

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Illinois Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Chicago 114

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. This offline stage, responding to Anti Money Laundering, Know Your Customer Regulations and the Proceeds of Crime Act, is a massive barrier to global trade and the market demands its elimination.

Small Business 75

Small Business South Africa North America New Zealand 75

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

I found some good lessons in this regard in a new book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price.

Social Media 163

Social Media India Acquisition China 163

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. million in revenue. Hicham has already brought about 3,000 hotels from the MENA region, but another 30,000 remain to be harnessed.

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Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114