By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have any entrepreneurs from the U.S.? Jean: We have people from Wisconsin, California, and Utah. We’re trying to attract the best entrepreneurs from around the world. We’re not only looking for high-tech entrepreneurs, we’re looking for any entrepreneur who can see an opportunity here
Sramana: Where in the Midwest did you establish operations, and how did you know Colin Chapman? Neeraj Gupta: When we decided to explore the low-cost domestic sourcing model, we spent three months looking at different locations in the U.S. We talked with various state governments. In 2009 there was a lot of debate about job
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Sudhindra Chada Sramana Mitra: Could we talk a bit more about what you measure in that process? Let’s say you have a qualified lead and that qualified lead goes down the funnel. What are the next few steps, how do you measure them, and what happens at each of
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jean: We want the founders to start their businesses here, and then go global. There are some companies that want to send in a project manager. Other teams wanted to open branches in Chile. There’s another agency here in Chile that supports that.
Naval Ravikant: There are a quite a few companies that still exist organically on the side, and we are trying to push more toward that. We want the entire system to be organic; I don’t want people emailing me and saying, Hey, would you email me out? That is not what we are trying to
MAD Incubator in Malaysia is co-hosting this roundtable and entrepreneurs from East Asia, Australia and New Zealand who are interested in discussing their startup ventures are encouraged to pitch during or attend this FREE online strategy roundtable on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, starting at 7:30 p.m. PDT/10:30 p.m. EDT, which is Thursday, April 7, 10:30
Janardhan Swahar’s Swayam Foods was chosen the best business of those presented at yesterday’s roundtable through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can read Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap here or listen to the recording found here.
Neeraj Gupta is the CEO and co-founder of Systems In Motion, a nearshore outsourcing company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Previously, Neeraj was a member of the executive team at Patni, a $700 million Indian IT services company, and founder/CEO of Cymbal, a services company focused on the telecom sector. He is an investor in and