Wednesday, February 14
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I have written a few pieces already addressing the disjointed nature of the web, whereby, you go one place for content, another for community, and a third for commerce, the most notable of these is the popular, 4C: Yahoo’s Turnaround Formula.
Let’s quickly recap the terminology:
3C = Content, Commerce, Community |
4th C = Context |
P = [...]
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Monday, March 31
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I received an email last week from Anuj Dayal, a Junior Year Undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur. Anuj asks the question: “What’s next for India? What should we, IIT students, do?” (You can see the message in its entirety below.)
First, let me thank you, Anuj, for asking the question. It [...]
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Friday, September 28
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We started discussing the leadership development problem in my previous post referring to Prof. Khurana’s new book about Business Schools losing sight of their mission of grooming leaders capable of building and running sustainable enterprises by following the money trail.
So, what’s happening in the Venture Capital / Private Equity world?
The compensation disbalance here is also [...]
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Saturday, March 3
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By Sujai Karampuri, Guest Author
I have already written an article called, ‘Need Product Companies In India’s Growth.’ Before I start writing on what we need to do, I would like to talk about some of the most important reasons that curtail us from spawning product companies. Some of them are obvious-history, post-independent economic policies, our [...]
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Friday, March 21
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I love listening to Obama. After a long time, a real orator is dominating the political coverage on television, and it’s an absolute treat.
But, one thing he keeps saying that I find confusing is that he will stop US jobs from going abroad.
How exactly is he going to do that? What policy would enable him [...]
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Saturday, July 1
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Seed Funds in India : Hole in the market.
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Tuesday, September 9
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Back Cover:
Entrepreneur Journeys begins with a simple idea: technology start-up success, and the knowledge required to achieve it, is out there to be leveraged by anyone who is willing to listen. Using her own intimate knowledge of the entrepreneurial world, in this book renowned strategist and Forbes columnist Sramana Mitra captures the stories of entrepreneurs [...]
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Tuesday, May 6
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12 years ago, in 2008, it was clear that the labor arbitrage based IT services industry that had made India a player in the global technology market, was facing a threat. The key issue was supply-demand equilibrium. India’s engineering education system simply could not keep up with the demand for talent.
Engineering schools below [...]
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