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1Mby1M Deal Radar: Market Force, Louisville, Colorado

Posted on Friday, Jan 14th

Market Force develops customer intelligence solutions that are designed to enable large, multi-location businesses to see their stores through their customers’ eyes and act faster with confidence, thus increasing the bottom line. The company provides a variety of customer intelligence solutions, including mystery shopping, customer satisfaction, price auditing, merchandising services, and analytics to help companies

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India’s Real Estate Boom & Architecture

Posted on Saturday, Jan 19th

And this one, since we have been talking about Government intervention and its pros and cons … city planning, including the aesthetics and architectural vision of a city, are the government’s responsibility. In all the emerging markets, a real-estate boom is raging. Nowhere is this boom more pronounced than in India and China. You have

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Turning Around LeapFrog: CEO Jeff Katz (Part 7)

Posted on Wednesday, Nov 28th

SM: Even the kids are very connected these days. JK: I was fond of saying that for whatever reasons the memo of the Internet did not make it to the company in 1999. They had that failed effort and the management team was disenchanted. We had to get our products connected so that notion of

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Turning Around LeapFrog: CEO Jeff Katz (Part 4)

Posted on Sunday, Nov 25th

SM: While you were doing Orbitz, did you already join the board of LeapFrog? JK: No, I joined the board in April of 2005. SM: How did they find you? JK: Leapfrog had been in the process of restructuring its board of directors, moving from insider directors to independent directors. They were looking for somebody

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Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 13)

Posted on Saturday, Sep 1st

3Com challenged Cisco with a Boundary Router strategy that threatened Cisco’s core router franchise. SM: So what prevented you from finally catching Cisco and passing them? EB: In 1997, there was one major shock for 3Com. More and more enterprise networks had to extend into carrier networks. Enterprises could not build all of these large

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Bootstrapping B:B:C Style

Posted on Friday, Jul 20th

I promised B:C entrepreneurs that if I saw any silver bullet that might help you bootstrap your ventures and access consumers quickly, I will be sure to flag you. Well, here’s one. Last week, I spoke with Rearden Commerce, a company I have covered before. They showed me an implementation of restaurant reservation service OpenTable,

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Heritage Hotels in India

Posted on Wednesday, May 30th

Besides Real Estate, the Hotel industry is also booming in India. I have always felt, Heritage Hotels are a very good way to preserve and restore old architecture, as well as leverage them. India already has a heritage of doing this in Rajasthan and many other places. I would like to see this tradition continued

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My India, After 10 Years (Part 5)

Posted on Monday, May 28th

By Jorge Freyer, Guest Author The answer to India’s growth may lie in a much tighter alliance between India and the US. These alliances will need to come from both industry and government and should be at the level of the reconstruction of Europe after the second world war. India has to do a great

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