Celebrating MIT’s 150th Anniversary: Alumni Ian Clemens, Founder Of IDV Solutions (Part 7)

Sramana: Are there no other companies out there that take your same philosophical approach to visualization? Ian Clemens: Contextualized visualization for companies like Tableau is an afterthought. What they are doing is rapid visualization, which remains technical and is very much a power user function. It is not very contextual. Mapping is often a product

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Business Incubator Series: Diane Dimeff, eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship, Boulder, Colorado (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Vandana Upadhyay Diane: Once they become an official incubator company, the mentor helps them to develop a first order strategic plan. What are you going to accomplish in the next three to six months? Whom do you need to meet in order to be successful? These are some questions

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Outsourcing: Ankur Prakash, Vice President And COO, TCS Latin America (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: So, did I hear you right that the one program that India implemented incredibly successfully in the early days of outsourcing was to give the industry a tax breaks, which is not the Latin American strategy, from a development point of view? Ankur Prakash: I

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Latin America Rising

I have been interested in Latin America for more than 15 years, although my involvement with business in the region started only in 2007, when I visited Buenos Aires for a client engagement. Since then, I have closely followed the ever-growing reach of MercadoLibre, Latin America’s e-commerce leader, in the form of an interview with founder

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Celebrating MIT’s 150th Anniversary: Alumni Ian Clemens, Founder Of IDV Solutions (Part 6)

Sramana: Your company started in 2004. How have you grown throughout the years? Ian Clemens: Through 2007 growth was very rapid. We went from two people to 50 people in three years. We rapidly grew to the $3 million to $4 million dollar range. We had flat years in 2008 and 2009 due to the

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Business Incubator Series: Diane Dimeff, eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship, Boulder, Colorado (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Vandana Upadhyay Diane: The other program we have is called the Venture Design program. And this is with the University of Colorado Aerospace Engineering Sciences program. We support a number of graduate hands-on and design projects in the aerospace department, in the hopes that one or more of them

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Outsourcing: Ankur Prakash, Vice President And COO, TCS Latin America (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Aditya Modi Sramana Mitra: In terms of dynamics of geography, in India, for example, we see that the big cities where the outsourcing industry really got started and matured such, as Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Gurgaon, and Noida, have become very expensive, and companies like yours are

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July 21: Next 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend this FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, July 21, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. All are welcome!