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The shortlisted will also have the opportunity to learn important lessons on scaling up globally and forge relationships to give them a competitive advantage.
Starting May 11th 2015, the program will provide insights into the technology markets along with networking opportunities with Silicon Valley investors, entrepreneurs and service providers. It will showcase 38 promising early stage tech startups from India working through diverse domains like ad-tech, mobility, big data analytics, SAAS, etc. The focus this year will be on practitioners networking and peer to peer interaction which will enable startups to learn from their counterparts in the valley.
Ravi Gururaj, Chair, NASSCOM Product Council said "The US is a large unified market with a single language and a single culture, which allows companies to grow big before they can start thinking of international expansion. Building on our event last year, we are excited to take 40 very promising and innovative start-ups to the Silicon Valley. We want to give them the exposure that will help them not only 'think scale, but think global".
On the agenda for the week-long trek are workshops, accelerator visits, expert panels and roundtables on growth hacking, consumer & mobile web, and fund raising tips with successful US entrepreneurs, and investors. Entrepreneurs will also get to have a direct first-hand interaction with reputed seed accelerators like 500 Startups, Spinta Accelerator, and YCombinator that have an impressive portfolio of companies that they have invested in and accelerated from across the world.
