1M/1M: Entrepreneur Grant Harris On CNN

I was just watching CNN, and to my absolute delight, saw Grant Harris, who presented at our 1M/1M roundtable recently. Grant’s company is Image Granted, LLC. Congratulations, Grant! And here is more on Grant and his venture.

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Vision India 2020 Book Review: Manoj Saxena

Manoj Saxena is vice president and global solutions leader at IBM, and was CEO and founder of Webify Solutions (acquired by IBM in 2006). Here is his review: “Brilliant analysis and a must read. Sramana’s book Vision India 2020 is a book about potential, possibilities and solutions. She provides a comprehensive picture of the potential and

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Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Bootstrapping Is Good!

Here is T. Farabee’s review of Sramana Mitra’s Bootstrapping book for Amazon: “Bootstrapping is good!  Mitra showcases a dozen entrepreneurs and their lessons from the bootstrapping trenches.  Some of the quotes from these interviews are below: Ramu Yalamanchi, Hi5: – No matter how many businesses you start, it just takes one successful business to make

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TiEcon 2010: May 14–15, 2010 Looking for entrepreneurial treasures?  Then come to TiEcon 2010, the largest conference in the world for entrepreneurs. Join over 3,000 attendees at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Engage in a rich dialog with a dynamic group of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, industry executives, and thought leaders for over two full days of

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Outsourcing: West Corporation Interview (Part 2)

By guest author Tony Scott The Home Agent Advantage Tony: You mentioned that you believe you are able to provide a total cost of service at a lower rate using the home agent model versus the brick-and-mortar model?Compared to domestic brick-and-mortar call centers, what percentage differential do you typically find?

Smartphone Ecosystem (Part 3): Devices

By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala The next three posts in the series focus on the hardware components of smartphones. Let’s now take a look at some of the flagship devices from major handset vendors. Getting under the hoods of these devices will give us a reasonable idea as to which handset chip providers are

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College Bootstrapping Buddies: Grasshopper Cofounders Siamak Taghaddos And David Hauser (Part 3)

SM: The two of you worked on the project and did creative financing deals to get started. What time was this? ST: We got started in January 2003. At that time we set aside six months to focus on the technology and work with various vendors creatively. We did that from January to June and

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Outsourcing: West Corporation Interview (Part 1)

The Future of Call Centers Last week I talked about the double-edged sword facing outsourcing companies that are playing a pure labor arbitrage game because of lower cost of communications and the potential to virtualize call centers. This week I’d like to share with you some of my interview with several senior executives from a

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