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HOT TOPICS
- The Accelerator Conundrum
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
Kolkata entrepreneurship
Startup Ecosystem in Kolkata: No Products, Only Services
Join us on Thursday, July 20, at 8:30 p.m. IST / 8 a.m. PDT for a special roundtable program: Brainstorming on Eastern India Startup Development. Come share your perspective, sign up to Speak and we will accommodate as many as possible with a few minutes to talk, register here. In case you missed it, you can listen to
Startup Ecosystem in Kolkata: A Strategy Discussion
Join us on Thursday, July 20, at 8:30 p.m. IST / 8 a.m. PDT for a special roundtable program: Brainstorming on Eastern India Startup Development. Come share your perspective, sign up to Speak and we will accommodate as many as possible with a few minutes to talk, register here. In case you missed it, you can listen to
August 24 TiE Kolkata Event – 1Mby1M Roundtable with Sramana Mitra
TiE Kolkata is hosting this in-person 1Mby1M Roundtable with Sramana Mitra at the Indus Net HUB in Kolkata, India, on Saturday, August 24. Registration begins at 3:30 p.m. and the program starts at 4:00 p.m. Up to five entrepreneurs will be able to pitch their businesses during this roundtable. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register
India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 7)
Sramana: You own the company 100%. How do you incentivize your employees aside from salary? Do you have a private stock option plan? Arvind Agarwalla: We do not have a stock option plan, and that would not make sense because I really have no intention of exiting the company. Our sales team operates with an
India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 6)
Sramana: Have you lost clients to the companies that offer an SaaS model? Arvind Agarwalla: We have not lost any clients to the public cloud. We offer our clients a private cloud option. We allow our clients to determine what kind of security they want. They allow what branches they want to connect to the
India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 5)
Sramana: In the history of any company, a few key people become the legs on which the table stands. Who were those people for you, and how did you find them? Kolkata was not the hotbed of management talent. Arvind Agarwalla: If you look at a product company, research and development is one leg. Sales
India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 4)
Sramana: It sounds like your market started to mature by 1991. Arvind Agarwalla: It was getting mature by then. We had started advertising, we had strong word-of-mouth recommendations, and we had a good user base. People recognized us as a software company. Our customers felt we delivered very effective software, and our pricing was extremely
India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 3)
Sramana: How did you deal with the piracy situation? It was pretty bad in the 1980s and 1990s. Arvind Agarwalla: The first thing we decided to do was implement copy protection on our software. Of course a lock can be broken, but we had to copy protect it or we would not be able to
