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October 24 – 193rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Oct 18th 2013

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 193rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 24, 2013, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2013: GeoLoqal, New York

Posted on Friday, Oct 18th 2013

GeoLoqal is a mobile platform-as-a-service specifically designed for building location-specific applications with complex geo-targeting functionality. Its main value proposition is that by using its “Snap In”  geolocation related functionality, developers, OEMs/ISVs and enterprises can build powerful location based solutions without investing in development/testing and reduce the time to market. GeoLoqal was founded in 2012 by

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India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Oct 18th 2013

Sramana: In the history of any company, a few key people become the legs on which the table stands. Who were those people for you, and how did you find them? Kolkata was not the hotbed of management talent. Arvind Agarwalla: If you look at a product company, research and development is one leg. Sales

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Roundtable Recap – October 17: Serious Entrepreneurs Have Resilience

Posted on Thursday, Oct 17th 2013

Today’s roundtable had several entrepreneurs who seem like serious folks with the resilience to see their visions through to fruition. HappyWeddings First up, Janaki Pendyala from Hyderabad, India, pitched HappyWeddings, a portal for wedding organizers to connect with vendors like caterers and such. Janaki is experiencing the slow growth and adoption rate of the Indian

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192nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Oct 17th 2013

Today’s 192nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, October 17, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

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192nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Oct 17th 2013

Today’s 192nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, October 17, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Oct 17th 2013

Sramana: It sounds like your market started to mature by 1991. Arvind Agarwalla: It was getting mature by then. We had started advertising, we had strong word-of-mouth recommendations, and we had a good user base. People recognized us as a software company. Our customers felt we delivered very effective software, and our pricing was extremely

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India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 16th 2013

Sramana: How did you deal with the piracy situation? It was pretty bad in the 1980s and 1990s. Arvind Agarwalla: The first thing we decided to do was implement copy protection on our software. Of course a lock can be broken, but we had to copy protect it or we would not be able to

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