March 17-19: Rendezvous With Sramana Mitra In Pune

Sramana Mitra will be in Pune, India, from March 17 to 19, for the ISBA 2012 conference at the Pune Marriott Hotel & Convention Centre on Senapati Bapat Road.

On Saturday, March 17, Sramana will be holding an informal meet-up from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the Lobby Lounge of the Pune Marriott Hotel & Convention Centre. If you would like to attend, please register here.

On Monday, March 19, at 9:15 a.m., she will be speaking about “Building India’s Entrepreneurship Pipeline.” Afterwards, she will be co-chairing a panel discussion on “Exploring Cross Border Linkages For Incubation.”  You can find more details and register here.

March 17-19: Rendezvous With Sramana Mitra In Pune

Sramana Mitra will be in Pune, India, from March 17 to 19, for the ISBA 2012 conference at the Pune Marriott Hotel & Convention Centre on Senapati Bapat Road.

On Monday, March 19, at 9:15 a.m., she will be speaking about “Building India’s Entrepreneurship Pipeline.” Afterwards, she will be co-chairing a panel discussion on “Exploring Cross Border Linkages For Incubation.”  You can find more details and register here.

On Saturday, March 17, Sramana will be holding an informal meet-up from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the Lobby Lounge of the Pune Marriott Hotel & Convention Centre. If you would like to attend, please register here.

April 3rd: Rendezvous With Sramana Mitra In Bangalore

On Tuesday, April 3, 2012, Sramana Mitra will be participating in several events for entrepreneurs in Bangalore, India. In the afternoon, Citrix will be hosting three roundtable sessions where 15 entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to pitch their businesses to Sramana for immediate feedback and guidance. In the evening, OpenCoffeeClub Bangalore will be hosting a debate and dinner event with Sramana in partnership with BEMUG and NASSCOM. Register Here.

If you are a serious entrepreneur in Bangalore, please register to “pitch” at one of the roundtable sessions listed below. Up to 45 others can register to “attend” to watch and learn. There will be a break in between roundtables for coffee and networking.

1:00 to 2:00 p.m. – #1 Roundtable, Register Here.
2:30 to 3:30 p.m. – #2 Roundtable, Register Here.
4:00 to 5:00 p.m. – #3 Roundtable, Register Here.
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TiE Silicon Valley Event With Sramana Mitra On November 9

If you have felt you lack ideas to start an entrepreneurial venture, or if you want to understand the framework of evaluating ideas, this brainstorming session is for you. Sramana Mitra will present five particular case studies of venture ideas from her Vision India 2020 book, spanning the U.S. and India, and illustrate the do’s and don’ts. In addition, she will emphasize lean, capital efficient, bootstrapped startups. The event will be hosted by TiE Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, California, on Wednesday, November 9, starting at 6:00 p.m. You can find more details and REGISTER HERE.

Letting Customers Design The Product: Cornerstone OnDemand CEO Adam Miller (Part 6)

Sramana:Where you able to use those contracts to obtain working capital financing?

Adam Miller: We did two things. Our CFO, Perry Wallack, and I became obsessed with a metric called operating profits also known as operating yields. >>>

Vision India 2020 Book Review: A Vision Well Worth Pursuing

Here is a review by Indu Kodukula from Menlo Park, California:

“Ms. Mitra’s Vision India 2020 book is a great roadmap for turning the current promise of India into something that’s more permanent. Many of the ideas make tremendous sense, have market relevance and if implemented can change the center of gravity of technology innovation. It’s a vision well worth pursuing. I read through the book in a couple of hours and was amazed by the diversity of the ideas and their scope – the title is worthy of the content.
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1M/1M Partner Event

TiE Entrepreneurial Summit, New Delhi – December 21-23, 2010
The largest entrepreneurship symposium in Asia in its fifth year, TiE Entrepreneurial Summit (TES) 2010: “Enterprising India – Changing the Nation, Leading the World”, is a three day mega event that will focus on entrepreneurial opportunities in a wide range of domains presented by a world renowned selection of speakers while providing an amazing networking and business development platform. Workshops and freebies by Google, Mobility Fund, HCL, Microsoft, and iBibo, offer an opportunity to learn and take home a lot more. Find more details and REGISTER HERE.

Building The Largest Online Bus Ticketing Company in India: redBus.in Co-founder and CEO Phanindra Sama (Part 12)

Sramana: What you describe about the call center and the home delivery service is OK for India. In countries that have low-cost labor, there are more opportunities for mixing high tech efficiencies with high-touch customer service. That becomes harder in countries where labor is more expensive. It is an interesting model.

Phanindra Sama: It can also serve as a platform to migrate people onto using these technologies. >>>