138th Roundtable Recording On August 2, 2012

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let me synthesize, and then we’ll look at specific points that you’ve made. I’ve got an IT portal as a window into IT. I’ve got crowd sourced support, peer-to-peer support on the support side. I’ve got collaboration sessions to break down silos within IT, including storing and saving for reference. I’ve got mobility.

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Bootstrapping to $6M from Durgapur, West Bengal: Pinnacle CAD CEO Bimal Patwari (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Sramana: Bimal, let’s start with your personal story. Where does your entrepreneurial journey begin? Bimal Patwari: I went to college at IIT Kharagpur where I studied electronics, and then did mygraduate work in marketing and finance at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Is there much of a tradition of software entrepreneurship in Edinburgh? Markos Symeonides: There is some. You’re probably aware that Edinburgh University has a five-star rating, along with the famous Cambridge, MIT and others. There are a lot of skills that come out of Edinburgh, but really, there are not very many global

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Far Away from Silicon Valley

These days, the media is becoming better at reporting on entrepreneurship outside Silicon Valley. In Silicon Valley, however, people tend to be somewhat cocky about the region’s place in the entrepreneurship landscape. But technology entrepreneurship is happening all around the world, and we have always tried to present an international and non-parochial view of the

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Building a $5M+ Digital Design Services Firm from Kolkata: Indus Net CEO Abhishek Rungta (Part 7)

Sramana: Have you built this company organically, or have you taken on investors? Abhishek Rungta: I have built this entire company from my initial 1,500 [~$27] rupee investment. All of the growth has come from our own efforts and sales. Sramana: Services companies have the ability to bootstrap and grow well organically. You can get

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