Sramana Mitra’s next free online 1M/1M strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs will be held this Thursday, May 6, 2010, starting at 8am PDT/11am EDT/8:30pm IST. You can find more details and register here. Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know!
Rural America OnShore Sourcing, Inc. (Rural America) is a U.S.-based onshoring company. Through its offices in Ohio, Kentucky, and Wisconsin, it provides the same outsourcing services performed by offshoring companies, except it uses professionals based in rural parts of America instead of overseas, hiring these professionals for 25% to 40% less than the cost of
SM: Are you hoping to sell the company in the end? RM: We are hoping to. That would be the goal. Either that or grow it into a much more profitable business, but I think acquisition is probably the likely scenario at some point.
Sabeer Bhatia is the co-founder of Hotmail, and here is his review of Sramana Mitra’s Vision India 2020: “Sramana’s book could only have been written by someone who is both an entrepreneur and a good writer. Her stories, ideas and strategies for navigating the complex world of startups and venture capital are so realistic. I really think someone
Just Moulding is an interior design firm that is using a franchise model with strong online and software components to change a business “usually handled by skilled carpenters in an unskilled manner.”
According to MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse, online spending grew 18% over the year in March, outpacing the growth rate of traditional brick-and-mortar stores. Online retailers Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) also saw significant growth in their revenues. Amazon’s stock touched a record high, and recent quarter results surpassed market expectations, recording double-digit revenue and earnings growth. But the company
SM: What happened to cause that growth? RM: The business structure is stronger now. In the past six months I have put a lot more work into making sure the business structure is solid.
Professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at UC Berkeley Naeem Zafar calls Vision India 2020 “unlike any book I have ever read” and puts forth that the book’s optimism is contagious in his new review. You can read all of this week’s posts by clicking on the full article.