Entrepreneurship in India

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?

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Deal Radar 2009: Central Desktop

Central Desktop is a web-based collaborative tool that allows users at small and mid-sized businesses to share information and communicate in real time with others in their workgroups. Users can also manage projects, coordinate tasks and share files on their own time by using this collaboration platform, whose features include web and audio conferencing, wikis

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Book Reviews: No Luck Without Discipline

I really got a kick out of this review by MIT freshman Tong Chen on Amazon: “Entrepreneur Journeys condenses the aspirations of a dozen of entrepreneurs and present them in such clear and intriguing ways that everyone–even those with no background in business or entrepreneurship–can learn a great deal. As a freshman at MIT, I

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PBX as SaaS: RingCentral CEO Vlad Shmunis (Part 6)

SM: How did you manage to leave the OEM model as your go-to-market strategy? VS: The idea was to go straight to the customer. If you have hundreds of thousands of small customers paying you a small amount a month, it is better than one customer paying a lot at one time.

Deal Radar 2009: CollegeNET

Harvard, Syracuse and the University of Toronto are just a few North American institutions reporting that a record number of students have applied for fall 2009 admission. But as the economy flounders and endowments drop, more students than ever are also applying for financial aid. One company aims to make it both easier to apply

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PBX as SaaS: RingCentral CEO Vlad Shmunis (Part 5)

SM: What year did you finally become profitable after you made the transition from consulting to applications? VS: I believe it was 1997. We had the answering machine and fax. That was the core business in 1997. We were shipping worldwide and we had a good reputation.

Anneke Seley on Sales 2.0 (Part 2)

From Chapter 2 of ‘Sales 2.0: Improve Business Results Using Innovative Sales Practices and Technology’ by guest authors Anneke Seley and Brent Holloway. WHY IS SALES 2.0 IMPERATIVE FOR YOUR BUSINESS? Continued  Marketing and sales professionals in every industry need to reexamine their markets, potential new customers, and how new and current customers evaluate and

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Designs of the Week: Political Campaign Posters

Although the US presidential election has come and gone, after seeing graphic artist and illustrator Shepard Fairey’s recent Obama “Hope” posters, we became curious about how past presidents portrayed themselves through the graphic design of their posters.