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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2011: FreshDesk, Chennai, India

A finalist in the Microsoft BizSpark India Startup Challenge, Freshdesk is a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Freshdesk introduces itself as a kind of Salesforce.com for customer support so to speak. Small- and medium-business owners can set up online customer support platforms

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2011: Bizosys, Bangalore, India

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. The founders, Sunil Guttula and Abinasha Karana are experienced IT professional with 15 years’ experience between them solving various enterprise IT problems. Guttula, Bizosys’ CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to “simplify software development.” Toward that end, they have

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Bootstrapping A Latin American Social Networking Powerhouse With 50 Million Users: Sonico CEO Rodrigo Teijeiro (Part 7)

Sramana: When you realized you were losing $270,000 a month, what actions did you take? Rodrigo Teijeiro: I fired 25 people of the 90 that worked for me and hit the brakes on expenditures. After a couple of months, I came to the conclusion that we could do two specific businesses to monetize the traffic

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Outsourcing: Martin Migoya, CEO Of Globant (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Rajesh Nair and Aditya Modi About Martin Migoya Martin Migoya is the CEO of Globant. Together with three of his friends, Martin established Globant, a company that desgins software products. Under Martin’s leadership, Globant grew from four people in 2003 to 1,500 today. He has won many awards such

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Bootstrapping A Latin American Social Networking Powerhouse With 50 Million Users: Sonico CEO Rodrigo Teijeiro (Part 6)

Sramana: Did you raise funds in Buenos Aires? Rodrigo Teijeiro: No, I went directly to Silicon Valley. Sramana: Tell me a bit about what you saw when you came to Silicon Valley to raise money with a Latin American business. Rodrigo Teijeiro: Normally I decide what I want and go after that directly. In this

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Bootstrapping A Latin American Social Networking Powerhouse With 50 Million Users: Sonico CEO Rodrigo Teijeiro (Part 5)

Sramana: How did you go from running a calling card site, e-card site, and birthday alert system to building Sonico? Rodrigo Teijeiro: In 2007 we were observing MySpace. We realized it was not a difficult site to build. I had the team and the knowledge as well as the marketing skill. We investigated the product

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Outsourcing: Sandip Sen, President And CMO, Aegis (Part 6)

Sandip Sen: I think rural BPO is an interesting concept. It will take a little time. The problem with the fourth tier cities is that this business will need the infrastructure. So, some of these cities need to have the infrastructure to be able to support a BPO, but there is a trend and we

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