9/15 Roundtable: Still A Few Slots Left

Folks, the September 15 Global Telepresence Roundtable still has a few slots in different cities. (Mumbai and Chennai are full.) Sign up ASAP if you want to pitch at Hyderabad, Bangalore, Gurgaon, London, Boston, or Santa Clara, and email your slides to Praneetha Manthravadi by the end of the day.

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Catching Up On Readings: A Peek Into India’s Job Portal

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ST-Ericsson (Part 3): Strategy And Outlook

By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala What is ST-Ericsson’s overall strategy? The final post in the series answers this question, provides some strategy pointers and offers a brief outlook of the JV’s prospects. Enabling Customers While the overall handset market shrunk in Q1 and Q2 of this year, the smartphone market grew. Although ST-Ericsson supplies four of the

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VisionSpring: Successful Scaling Of A MicroFranchise (Part 2)

By Guest Author Praneetha Manthravadi [The first part of the article introduced VisionSpring, what it is, and how it works. Today’s post explains how microentrepreneurs make profits from the “Business in a Bag” system and how readers can be a part of VisionSpring’s mission.] So, what kind of profits do these microentrepreneurs make? It depends

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Praneetha Manthravadi

Praneetha is a senior hardware engineer in the flagship Ethernet Switching Technology Group (ESTG) at Cisco. She is currently working on the cutting edge Next Generation Wiring Closet technology ASICs. She is also pursuing her MBA at the Anderson School of Management, UCLA, focusing on marketing and entrepreneurship. She is interested in studying about micro-franchising

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Getting To Plan B: Randy Komisar, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins (Part 4)

SM: You said that you like to get involved with companies early and help them solidify positioning; is that because you are good at it? Most VCs don’t do it, and even if they did they would not have a clue how to do it. RK: It’s just what I do. I agree that most

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ST-Ericsson (Part 3): Continuing To Innovate

By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala Let’s continue from where we left off in the previous post, with an analysis of ST-Ericsson’s portfolio. Innovation Even as it juggles the enormous task of integrating various teams, ST-Ericsson needs to be commended for continuing to deliver innovative products.

VisionSpring: Successful Scaling Of A Microfranchise (Part 1)

By Guest Author Praneetha Manthravadi [Praneetha’s article is both a profile of an organization for microentrepreneurship and a call to action. Read on to find out what VisionSpring does and how you can get involved.] VisionSpring, previously known as the Scojo Foundation, was started in 2001 by Dr. Jordan Kassalow. The organization was started from

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