Roundtable Recap: June 30 – Continued International Participation

True to the international dynamic of 1M/1M, during today’s roundtable we had entrepreneurs from the U.S., India, and Israel pitch their businesses. And in the audience, there were people from at least 30 different corners of the world. directdialogs First, Senthil Natchimuthu from Coimbatire, India, discussed directdialogs. Senthil is doing a small business marketing solution

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June 30 Roundtable Recording

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Frank Modruson, CIO of Accenture (Part 8)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana Mitra: Whenever we see discontinuities in terms of technology in our industry, this opens up opportunities for entrepreneurship. It opens up what’s happening at the cusp. I would be curious to hear your thoughts on blue-sky opportunities that you see that playing to

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Customer Service And The Social Web

Earlier this year, I wrote a piece called Top 10 Social Web Trends For The Decade. In it, I suggested that the way various business functions are done will change owing to the impact of the social Web, crowdsourcing, and so on. The areas that are seeing the most upheaval are customer services, which spans

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Building A Billion-Dollar Solar Company: Canadian Solar CEO Shawn Qu (Part 7)

Sramana: You are among the top six solar cell manufacturers. How do you compete? Is this market commoditizing, or is there still technical differentiation in the marketplace? Shawn Qu: The market has grown very fast in the past few years. I think that we have come to a point where pure growth via manufacturing capacity

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Outsourcing: César Gon, Founder And CEO, CI&T (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: What are the strategies you use? How do you improve English-speaking skills? César Gon: We have an official annual evaluation for each employee of the company. We have a lot of full-time English teachers inside the company, providing specific training for different people, and we

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