On The Way To 100 Million Dollars In SaaS Revenue: Vocus CEO Rick Rudman (Part 4)

SM: I am assuming you raised a second round. When was that? RR: We then raised a second round of $12 million. That was in the fall of 2000. It was only eight months later. Our valuation increased during that time by five times.

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Vision India 2020 Book Review: A Truly Inspirational Book

Here is Ramprasad Subburaman’s review for Amazon: “Vision India 2020 is yet another book that every entrepreneur should have at their desk, especially those who are focusing on the Indian Market. All of Sramana Mitra’s ideas in this book about the future of India have been well thought through (Opportunities and Challenges). Anyone who understands

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Are MBA Programs Failing?

By guest author Jeff Saperstein Sramana has launched a most useful discussion about whether MBA programs are failing entrepreneurs. As a fifteen-year adjunct lecturer at San Francisco State University’s Graduate School of Business and a ten-year visiting professor at ESCP–Paris Graduate Business Program, I have taught thousands of MBA students. Research we conducted for “Bust

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On The Way To 100 Million Dollars In SaaS Revenue: Vocus CEO Rick Rudman (Part 3)

SM: Was it a software-as-a-service offering? RR: When we launched the product in 1997, we did it on the desktop. There was no SaaS model back then. We sold it as a desktop application from 1997 to 1999.

Vision India 2020 Internships

As I have said in my introduction to Vision India 2020, the 45 billion dollar ideas that I have presented in the book need to be further researched, and then implemented by the next generation of entrepreneurs. To further facilitate the process of dialog, discussion, research and team building, I have designed an internship for

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Vision India 2020 Book Review: Entirely Appropriate To The World’s Largest Democracy

Here is William Carter’s terrific review of Sramana Mitra’s Vision India 2020 for Amazon.com: “Although I am not a business specialist, I do have a permanent passion for India and a lively interest in the globalizing economy. Ms. Mitra’s book is unique in combining her impressive background, her pointedly focused yet wide perspective, and her

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Entrepreneurship Education: Idea Validation

Every Thursday morning, I coach five entrepreneurs with many more listening to the sessions. And like a parrot, I keep asking these entrepreneurs to validate their ideas. I give them a framework with which to do so. I give it to them ahead of time hoping they would use it and come prepared. And yet

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