Seed Capital: IndiaCo Investor Rahul Patwardhan

[We just received a tragic news that Rahul passed away of a cardiac arrest.] The entrepreneur ecosystem continues to grow in India. This is an exciting time for both startups and investors. As my interview with Rahul Patwardhan of IndiaCo shows, there are investors for every sector. If they do their own due diligence before

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Outsourcing: Ian Ippolito, Founder and CEO of vWorker (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: That’s one of your differentiators, that you use crowdsourcing instead of the interview process, and then you let people hire based on the best crowdsourced project? Ian Ippolito: Yes. SM: What are the terms under which you work? It’s a commission on projects, yes?

Optimizing Websites With Machine Learning: BloomReach CEO Raj De Datta (Part 2)

Sramana: What did you do after you graduated from Princeton? Raj De Datta: I was going to go to Bell Labs until by chance I met a guest speaker from Wall Street. I did not know anything about Wall Street, and I spoke with him after his talk because it was intriguing. He offered me

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March 23: Rendezvous With Sramana Mitra In Kolkata

Sramana Mitra will be speaking about “Building Kolkata’s Entrepreneurship Pipeline” at a TiE Kolkata event on Friday, March 23, 2012. The event begins at 6:00 p.m. at the DPSC Centre of Excellence in Kolkata, India. Pradeep Udtha, Strategy Lead for Cloud, Devices & Startups, Microsoft Corporation, will also be giving a presentation. To register, please

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Outsourcing: Ian Ippolito, Founder and CEO of vWorker (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I think I’ve heard of Rent-A-Coder. Ian Ippolito: OK. That’s the way it started, and it was just programmers back then. The first month it probably made only $50 or $60, but it grew. Over the next couple of years, it started going faster and faster. We got some good publicity. We were

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119th Roundtable Recording On March 8

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording