Roundtable Recap: December 16 – Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

We started this week’s roundtable with a discussion of the top 10 tech trends to watch for the upcoming decade. The trends include Cloud Computing, Outsourcing, Social Web, Vertical and Local Web, Smartphones and Tablets, Online Advertising, Online Video, Online Gaming, eBooks, and Bootstrapped Entrepreneurship. You can find details in the blog post on https://sramanamitra.com.

As for the entrepreneur pitches, first up today was Bhupendra Kanal with InRev, a social CRM analytics company. Bhupendra has built a product and has started engaging a few customers. He is, however, playing in an extremely, extremely crowded space. Bhupendra’s questions were largely around competition. My key advice to him was to focus on acquiring customers, and getting a thorough positioning exercise done based on segmentation, competitive analysis, and market sizing to identify a segment where competition is less active, and the product is particularly effective.
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December 16 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, here is the recording:

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: PerBlue, Madison, Wisconsin

The future of location-based games is still up for grabs, and PerBlue, a mobile and social gaming software company, is helping to determine that history. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: VOI ,Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

VOI (Value of Insight) is a bio-pharmaceutical publishing and business intelligence consulting company. Its primary publications, pharmahandbook, Guide to the International Pharmaceutical Industry; and generichandbook, Guide to the Generic Drug Industry in the US, are important resources in more than 40 countries. The company has also created a data platform designed to increase return on investment for R&D and make the long, extremely expensive clinical trial process better, faster, and cheaper.  >>>

Next 1M/1M Free Online Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, December 16

The next free online roundtable will be held on Thursday, December 16, 2010, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here.

Sramana Mitra’s Lean Start-Ups Workshop At NASSCOM Product Conclave

Here is some video from Sramana’s workshop at the NASSCOM Product Conclave last month:

1M/1M Free Online Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, December 16

The next 1M/1M free online roundtable will be held on Thursday, December 16, 2010, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here.

Roundtable Recap: December 9 – Where Should You Raise Money?

During this week’s roundtable we had a group of entrepreneurs from the Pune Open Coffee Club gather at the offices of Persistent Systems to participate in the roundtable together. It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming which happens every week, religiously.

First up today was Jacqueline Floro-Pierre with ShopTranslated from China. ShopTranslated is a mass market online retailer of plus sized women’s clothing, with merchandise in the $59-$99 range. Jacqueline and her partner Cortney are designing and manufacturing the line out of China and selling in the US. They are still very small, but have some validation. And we already know that this is a very large market from working with La Grande Dame.
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