Deal Radar 2008: Seventymm

I wrote about Seventymm two years back, as part of the Concept Arbitrage series. In this post, we will review how the company has progressed in the interim against its stated goals.

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Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 7)

SM: In your opinion, from where you sat in the spring of 2004, who were the top technology players serving that market? GG: A natural place to start evaluating that market is to see where the dollars are coming. What is fascinating about the employment market is that besides employers and job seekers, which is

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The Economy

One of my readers asked me for comments on the outlook for the global economy. I saw this post on Paul Kedrosky’s site which I think does a very good job summarizing the situation, which effectively, is demand exceeding supply in every dimension. [It’s actually a passage from FT].

Marvell: Valuation

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author I value Marvell at $21 per share. As we have evaluated in this series, the company draws its strengths from the stable revenue coming from its storage, ethernet and WLAN businesses. Its primary weakness is its perceived inability to control its expenses that have resulted in a poor profit/loss record

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Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 6)

SM: When did you start playing with SimplyHired? GG: After I left India Community Center I decided to take another trip back to India. I went through another 10 states. I went through 15 cities and a couple dozen villages. It was part of my continued effort to get to know India better. By the

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Catching Up on Readings: Bootstrap Yourself!

Amidst the ocean of content that is coming at you, readers, I am sure you find yourselves overwhelmed. Here’s a recap of some articles from this site which you may have missed, but may be worth your time:

The Expansion and Contraction of “BI”

By Dave Hatch, Guest Author I have now completed a full year of research at Aberdeen Group (the last 6 months have been the busiest of my career, by far!), and I can truly say that after 20 years as a user and marketer of BI technologies, the past year has taught me more (as

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Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 5)

SM: When did you actually open India Community Center? GG: India Community Center opened up in February of 2003. We did not know what to expect. We had a small membership fee which would never cover the cost of the center. We dreamed up various programs which we hoped would resonate. When we opened the

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