BusinessWeek On Calcutta’s Prospects

Here is a ridiculous article from BusinessWeek: Kolkata: A New Hot Spot in India. Mehul Srivastava writes: with its Communist leadership on the way out, the former Calcutta is poised for quick growth.

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Erika Valdez

Erika Valdez is a recent graduate of the MBA program (May 2009) at the H-E-B School of Business & Administration at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, USA. She is a research assistant and intern who focuses on women entrepreneurs for Sramana Mitra on Strategy and a research assistant for the

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Catching Up On Readings: Life Before Apps Stores

Guest author Saad Fazil offers his take on Life Before Apps Stores; click on the full article for a summary of the posts from this past week, in case you missed them.

The Art of Making (and Learning From) Mistakes

By Guest Author Bibby Gignilliat I make a lot of mistakes! It’s inevitable: new entrepreneurs starting a business are bound to make a mistake or two along the way. If you let them, mistakes can hamper your goals and make you less confident in the task you set out to do.

Life Before Apps Stores

By Guest Author Saad Fazil While the iPhone and Android platforms and their ilk have certainly opened up the playing field to a long tail of developers, they are by no means cash machines. In fact, if you had planned on quitting your job to get rich developing apps for these platforms, you might want

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The Long Road to Edutainment: Tabula Digita CEO Ntiedo Etuk (Part 3)

SM: Did you talk with venture capitalists? What was your funding strategy? NE: When I spoke with venture capitalists, they were not sure that there was a niche for educational software. They did know that people spent a tremendous amount of money on test preparation. They thought it would be interesting if we tied our

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Bibby Gignilliat

Bibby transformed a career in marketing at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. into an enormously satisfying career in professional cooking. She launched her formal training at Tante Marie’s Cooking School in San Francisco. She has taught cooking classes at HomeChef® and at Tante Marie’s and currently teaches at Sur La Table, Ramekins and Draeger’s. In 1999, Bibby founded

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Media Industry: The Economist

Please read this article from The Atlantic: “The Newsweekly’s Last Stand”. It analyzes why The Economist can grow amidst this global implosion in media, and reinforces what I have been saying all along: quality is the answer. But in this article, Michael Hirschorn offers an excellent analysis, comparing The Economist to other magazines.