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By guest author Tony Scott
In part I of my article, I pointed out the reasons why outsourcing to India based on pure labor rate arbitrage faces significant obstacles to continued growth – and possibly even to future survival. On the other hand, outsourcing is clearly thriving – in India and around the world. How can [...]
I have already written a few pieces 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 pieces is the popular 4C: Yahoo’s Turnaround Formula.
Let’s quickly recap the terminology:
3C = Content, Commerce, Community |
4th C = Context |
P [...]
I know I have a number of readers at various universities … can anyone comment on a business school (or just any old college or university program) where bootstrapping is taught as part of the entrepreneurship curriculum?
Of course, I am a HUGE proponent of bootstrapping, having written the recent book, Bootstrapping: Weapon Of Mass [...]
I spoke with a number of people this week, and one comment that came up several times, is that the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India is not coming together as well as it needs to.
Indian readers: Why do you think this is the case? What are you experiencing?
Addendum:
Based on your responses below, I have [...]
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 [...]
VISION INDIA 2020
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A call to Indian entrepreneurs everywhere, Vision India 2020 challenges and inspires readers to build the future now. In this “futuristic retrospective,” author Sramana Mitra shows how over the next decade, start-up companies in India could be turned into billion-dollar enterprises.
Vision India 2020, which [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“[The] problem is, all of these initiatives are expensive. If the global economy doesn’t bounce back in a year or so, India’s outsourcers could find themselves saddled with legions of employees who have little to do. Infosys offered jobs to 18,000 college graduates last year and plans to hire more this year. But with scant [...]
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