Vision India 2020 Book Review: For All The Budding Entrepreneurs

Prith Banerjee is Senior Vice President of Research and Director of HP Labs, Hewlett Packard Company.  Here is his review of Vision India 2020 by Sramana Mitra: “I read Vision India 2020 last month.  The book is commendable on two fronts.  Each of the business case studies Sramana introduces in her book constitutes a real business case

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World Cup Diary: New Trade Prospects

Great first day of knockout stage soccer. Both Uruguay vs. South Korea and the USA vs. Ghana have been fantastic games. For the United States, well, Donovan sums it up: “Soccer is a cruel game, sometimes!” It’s interesting to see the round of 16 lineup: six Latin American teams (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, and

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June 24 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, here is the recording and the chat transcript.

Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Zest For Creation

 Here is a nice review of Sramana Mitra’s Innovation: Need Of The Hour, volume four of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series, by ForeWord Clarion Reviews: “The time is now for ‘a system that rewards long-term, sustained effort in solving humanity’s biggest problems, not one driven by unbridled greed,’ Sramana Mitra writes in the fourth volume in her series

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E-Commerce Gold Rush

Twenty thousand e-commerce sites are coming online every week I have long been a fan of e-commerce. Today, I see the industry in a gold rush. According to some analyst estimates, nearly 20,000 entrepreneurs now open online storefronts every week, and growth in e-commerce sales continues to outstrip that of sales in physical stores. Early

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Vision India 2020 Book Review: ThinkChange India

Vinay Ganti with ThinkChange India recently spoke with Sramana Mitra about her book Vision India 2020. You can find the “Sramana Mitra wants to help you transform India into an innovation hotbed” interview here. In a separate review of the book he says: “Very few books attempt to ‘show not tell’ what an ecosystem of innovation

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TechCrunch: Is Entrepreneurship Just About The Exit?

Vivek Wadhwa asks a great question on TechCrunch: Is Entrepreneurship Just About The Exit? Vivek and I had a long discussion on this topic last weekend, and he extensively references that discussion in the piece. You have also read my recent piece, Built To Enjoy, on this topic. Vivek offers a number of good examples.

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1M/1M: Need Twitter Help

Readers, we need your help with helping spread the 1M/1M movement through twitter. We have 88 ambassadors in the 1M/1M LinkedIn group at the moment, and 95 requests to join. We also have 100+ supporters who are not actively working on the project but are nevertheless helping spread the word. Over the last four months,

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