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Happily Bootstrapping: Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu (Part 2)
Sridhar’s experience in bootstrapping is something to learn from, especially for entrepreneurs in India, who keep complaining about the lack of funding availability from venture sources. Along the way, he weathered many storms, as all good entrepreneurs learn to do. SM: How did you fund your early initiative? SV: It was all bootstrapped. My wife
Job Search Engine Indeed CEO Paul Forster (Part 2)
SM: What was the market landscape like when you founded the company? PF: Online recruitment has been dominated by job boards, particularly Careerbuilder, Monster and Hotjobs and specialized sites like Dice for technology professionals. Indeed.com makes it possible for job seekers to search across these sites to find exactly the right jobs. Job seekers click
Happily Bootstrapping: Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. [Also check out my Entrepreneur Journeys book, Seed India – How To Navigate The Seed Capital Gap in India] Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of AdventNet, which owns Zoho, a new on-demand office suite we’ve been hearing about a lot lately. I spoke with Sridhar about his rather unorthodox but
Job Search Engine Indeed CEO Paul Forster (Part 1)
We have been reviewing the Online Jobs vertical at length, and in this interview, will be speaking with Paul Forster, co-Founder and CEO of vertical search engine Indeed. SM: Please describe your personal background. PF: My professional background is in finance. I was an investment manager with the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm
Narayan Murthy’s Speech at NYU (Part 6)
Based on my life experiences, I can assert that it is this belief in learning from experience, a growth mindset, the power of chance events, and self-reflection that have helped me grow to the present. Back in the 1960s, the odds of my being in front of you today would have been zero. Yet here
Narayan Murthy’s Speech at NYU (Part 5)
I want to share with you, next, the life lessons these events have taught me. 1. I will begin with the importance of learning from experience. It is less important, I believe, where you start. It is more important how and what you learn. If the quality of the learning is high, the development gradient
Narayan Murthy’s Speech at NYU (Part 4)
A final story: On a hot summer morning in 1995, a Fortune-10 corporation had sequestered all their Indian software vendors, including Infosys, in different rooms at the Taj Residency hotel in Bangalore so that the vendors could not communicate with one another. This customer’s propensity for tough negotiations was well-known. Our team was very nervous.
Narayan Murthy’s Speech at NYU (Part 3)
While these first two events were rather fortuitous, the next two, both concerning the Infosys journey, were more planned and profoundly influenced my career trajectory. On a chilly Saturday morning in winter 1990, five of the seven founders of Infosys met in our small office in a leafy Bangalore suburb. The decision at hand was
