April 19: 123rd FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 123rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, April 19, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 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 constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to watch and learn. See what entrepreneurs who Mitra has helped say here. You can find more details here and register here. All are welcome!

Roundtable Recap: April 12 – More From Indian Entrepreneurs

During today’s roundtable we worked mostly with those entrepreneurs who had signed up to pitch at our Bangalore roundtables last week, but did not get a slot.

GoEasy
First, Sathish G. from Chennai, India, pitched GoEasy, a mobile yellow pages app that he has started validating. Essentially, as in all yellow pages businesses, GoEasy assumes that small businesses will pay to register themselves, and consumers will mostly use the service for free. Sathish, however, is making the same ‘spray and pray’ mistake that many first-time entrepreneurs make. He has retailers in Ooty and Kozhikode, and consumers in Chennai and Bangalore. My advice is to focus on one city and implement the entire model there. Scaling will need to be city-by-city. But this is not a business that can be launched by attacking multiple cities all at once.
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122nd 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can playback the recording from here:

122nd Roundtable Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 122nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, April 12, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India. Click here to join.

122nd Roundtable Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s FREE online 122nd 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, April 12, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Thursday, April 12: 122nd FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 122nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, April 12, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to watch and learn. See what entrepreneurs who Mitra has helped say here. You can learn more here and register here. All are welcome!

Roundtable Recap: April 3 – Rendezvous In Bangalore

On April 3rd, I spent an entire day with entrepreneurs in Bangalore, and we did three roundtables with 15 entrepreneur pitches. These roundtables were held at the Citrix Executive Briefing Center, hosted by Ravi Gururaj, Vice President of Products for the Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix and also head of the Citrix Startup Accelerator in India.

Citrix, by the way, is soliciting applications for its $100k award by early April. Also, the Citrix accelerator in Santa Clara offers $250k convertible note financing for its 18-month program based in Silicon Valley. For more information, you can contact Ravi [ravi.gururaj@citrix.com].

So let’s review the entrepreneur pitches from the roundtables.
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Bangalore Entrepreneurs Pitching At Roundtables On April 3rd

The entrepreneurs listed below will be pitching their businesses to Sramana Mitra during three dynamic roundtable sessions at the Citrix Executive Briefing Centre in Bangalore, India, on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. There are still a few seats left, register here.

Roundtable 1
Ajit Narayan, Avaz
Cohan Sujay Carlos, Aiaioo Labs
Janakiram Ganesan, MineWhat
Hari Babu, Cafe Shuttle
Subir Saha, Stewot
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