Vertical Travel Ad Network CEO Cree Lawson (Part 8)

SM: Describe some of your team-building experiences. CL: From the start-ups I was associated with before TAN, I know that team building is perhaps the most difficult aspect of entrepreneurism (aside from spelling the word, of course). You start, and it’s just you and you are alone and you are screaming at the world, saying

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Incubator Funds in India: Management Team

This is going to be the last segment for this series on Incubators in India, and it tackles the key to making such incubators work. We have said, that we need concept engineering, engineering management, product marketing, sales, biz dev, legal and financial talent in the incubator management team. I am going to, therefore, propose

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Offshoring Secrets: How Can Small Centers Attract Talent?

By Utkarsh Rai, Guest Author, Author of “Offshoring Secrets”. “Fear of the unknown” is the biggest deterrent when it comes to choosing the next job. In India, most of the time, the prospective candidate is not the sole decision maker in accepting an offer. Parents, spouse, siblings, in-laws and friends play a major role in

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Web 3.0 & Online Sports (Part 4)

Web 3.0 formula discussion Context Most of the sports sites that I went through have very good contextual nuances. These sites have something for every sports fan. I liked the way sites like NBA.com, MLB.com and NFL.com have covered the respective sports. If you love Basketball and want to check out on some stat or

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Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 7)

SM: What stage are you at now? Revenue? Profitability? Traffic? Customers? Users? Any other metrics you track? KR: We launched our service in Q2 of this year, and the response has been fantastic. We’ve already signed up our first set of paying customers, which is a great milestone for us. Initially, our primary goals are

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Happily Bootstrapping: Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu (Part 7)

Sridhar’s thesis around Zoho is to ride on top of the market awareness already created by Salesforce.com, Webex and others around On-Demand / SaaS delivery models for business applications like the Office Suite, CRM, Web Conferencing, Project Management, etc. and simply do a dramatic undercutting based on price. He insists that the amount of Sales

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Effective Management Techniques

You have read Dominique’ article, Top Ten, on an effective management technique from the Steve Jobs school. Do you have such well-honed and highly effective management techniques that you would like to share? Here are a couple I received from the network:

A-Players, A-Team: Napoleon Failed

By Dominique Trempont, Guest Author In 1815, Napoleon began building up his army in preparation for an invasion of Belgium. His goal was to capture Brussels. He wanted to divide the British, Prussian, Belgian and Dutch armies before defeating them separately, forcing Wellington’s army to retreat back to the Belgian coast in the west and

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