Two of this week’s Tech Stocks posts offer an update on how newspapers plan to stay afloat in a sea of free content – Newspapers Down, But Not Out, and News Corp’s Gangbuster Quarter. You can read all of this week’s posts by clicking on the full article.
By guest author Tony Scott It has now been two years since Sramana Mitra’s article “The Death of Indian Outsourcing” was published. Is outsourcing dying – or thriving? In one sense, outsourcing in India as it was known in the past is on the verge of (and in some cases is already) “hitting the wall.”
SM: Who was your first enterprise customer? FL: We had a couple of big customers very early. Edmunds.com was a big customer of ours, as was Qualcomm. TIAA-CREF was another. Those companies became a beachhead for us to get follow-on customers such as Hyatt.
Here is Devesh Dwivedi’s review of Sramana Mitra’s Bootstrapping book for Amazon: “Very inspiring. It’s a powerhouse of twelve inspirational stories of how aspiring entrepreneurs went from zero (or almost zero) to millions of a stable and sustainable business… Wait a minute, no, not by raising capital from VCs but by bootstrapping their projects and
In case you missed it, YourStory spoke with Sramana Mitra about entrepreneurship, India, and her new book in this interview earlier this week. From a review of Sramana Mitra’s Vision India 2020 by Kanishk Rastogi on Amazon.com: “Futuristic vision and an entrepreneurial spirit perfectly blended by a simple, yet effective writing style, that is precisely
Entrepreneur Commons – March 25, 2010 Entrepreneur Commons – April 5, 2010 Entrepreneur Commons – March 25, 2010 The Regus San Francisco-Soma office and Entrepreneur Commons are happy to announce the launch of a new Entrepreneur Commons chapter in San Francisco. Come and meet other entrepreneurs to network, learn from their experiences, and share your
SM: Did you bootstrap ServiceNow? FL: In the beginning it was completely bootstrapped. I had a couple guys volunteering who worked on nights and weekends, and that helped me out. However, it was really just me and a dozen customers at that point.
With unemployment soaring, incubators can help people move into self-employment–and create jobs. See how in this week’s Forbes column, An Underused Tool For Job Recovery.