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The Long Road to Edutainment: Tabula Digita CEO Ntiedo Etuk (Part 6)

Posted on Monday, Aug 10th 2009

SM: Which other districts besides New York City have you been successful in? NE: Up until this point, we have been very focused on four major areas: New York, Florida, Illinois and Texas. Those four states plus California are where most education dollars are spent.

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Rohit P. Singh

Posted on Monday, Aug 10th 2009

Rohit is an undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and is doing his graduate work in material science and metallurgical engineering. He is an intern at Sramanamitra.com, where he focuses on water scarcity, water conflicts and water management in India. He has been a part of business development teams with firms in Mumbai

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Deal Radar 2009: Ancestry.com

Posted on Monday, Aug 10th 2009

You may not be able to choose your family, but with Ancestry.com you have a better chance of finding them. Ancestry.com is a site dedicated to helping users find information about their family history. Subscribers to the site can search historical record collections, organize their family history, create profiles for each family member, and upload

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The Long Road to Edutainment: Tabula Digita CEO Ntiedo Etuk (Part 5)

Posted on Sunday, Aug 9th 2009

SM: For your first product, what was your target segment? NE: It was middle school. We went after the pre-algebra and algebra crowd. We went after math because we knew that math and science would be critical problems for the country. Additionally, it is very easy to measure if you get an answer right or

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Breaking The 9 to 5 Jail

Posted on Sunday, Aug 9th 2009

Devesh Dwivedi interviewed Sramana recently on Breaking The 9 to 5Jail . It’s an interesting conversation that discusses using your 9 to 5 corporate job as a technique of bootstrapping and other related issues.

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The Need for the Commercialization of Water in India

Posted on Sunday, Aug 9th 2009

By Guest Author Rohit P. Singh India, in spite of being surrounded by bodies of water on three sides, being crossed by 13 major rivers, and being home to the place with the world’s highest rainfall (Cherapunji) and largest river island (Majuli), is suffering from an acute water crisis. Even as there have been great

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Mompreneur Stories: Flexibility

Posted on Sunday, Aug 9th 2009

By Guest Author Erika Valdez There are many extraordinary examples of women entrepreneurs out there—women who, due to various circumstances, have chosen to take the path of entrepreneurship and are now owners of successful businesses. Over the past few weeks I have had the opportunity to interview many women, most of them moms, who have

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The Long Road to Edutainment: Tabula Digita CEO Ntiedo Etuk (Part 4)

Posted on Saturday, Aug 8th 2009

SM: Did your contract with the Princeton Review get the company established financially? NE: In the middle of September we finally got the contract completed. On September 15th we were finally done, but they told me they were not going to transfer the money until October 1st. By September 30th we had drained everything.

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