By Guest Author Shailesh Otari Filing income taxes isn’t always easy, and Prasad Rajappan had his own share of problems with the income tax department in India. While most people are just happy for such an experience to end, Prasad came up with a business idea to exploit this situation. Convinced that large organizations would
SM: So 15 years later you left Intel. What is the story behind that? LM: Intel’s largest OEM at the time, Packard Bell, was carrying the Intel brand into retail. They merged with NEC’s U.S. operations, and I was asked by that newly merged entity to join them and run the commercial business group under
The House today voted 241-181 in favor of the Tax Extenders Act of 2009 that would raise tax rates on “carried interest” earned by investment managers – including venture firms – to ordinary income rates (~35%), from a lower capital gains rate (15%). The bill now moves to the Senate. In the WSJ, Terry McGuire
Shailesh Otari is an MBA student at Boston University. Prior to his MBA, he worked as a project lead at Syntel Consulting Inc. His expertise include systems and business analysis. Shailesh is passionate about new IT ventures and entrepreneurship in emerging economies. Deal Radar 2010: WebyogDeal Radar 2009: ClearpathDeal Radar 2009: WirkleDeal Radar 2009: OrangescapeDeal
From a terrific review of Entrepreneur Journeys by Anshul Tewari for Youth Ki Awaaz: “This book is by far the best book I have read in 2009.”
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By Guest Author Shailesh Otari Deal Radar heads back to India for the rest of this week, first to a young company created by a young entrepreneur in Calcutta. Straight out of high school, Pallav Nadhani started InfoSoft Global, a software product company, in 2002. Under an umbrella brand called FusionCharts, the company provides data