Artist As An Entrepreneur Photographer: Tom Mangelsen’s Images of Nature (Part 7)

SM: Essentially you are saying the market has now experienced an explosion of images, not all of which convey a unique essence?

TM: Yes. A lot of photographers who are above average are giving away their images in order to get a credit line. One of the difficult things with wildlife photography is the proliferation of people who are willing to go to game farms to photograph. >>>

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 and entrepreneurship would look like. Mitra does her best in doing this by consciously trying to tie the otherwise separate pieces together, recognizing the importance of driving a robust culture for innovation throughout the DNA of the country. Mitra also took great effort to keep things as real as possible despite the futuristic retrospective — every person mentioned in the book is real and someone invested in the idea of driving innovation in India. In a similar fashion to alternative history novels, Mitra has built an idealized India grounded in actual human beings and experiences.

Mitra’s uncompromising spirit and unquestioned faith in the power of entrepreneurship and innovation should provide an excellent guide to the necessary constitution for any successful startup founder.”

You can read the entire review here.

Vision India 2020 by Sramana Mitra is available from Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle, from Flipkart in India, and from Smashwords.com in all e-book formats.

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, June 17

The next free online 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs will be held this Thursday, June 17, 2010, starting at 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. IST.  TiE New Delhi is co-hosting this roundtable, so their members will be presenting their businesses. All are welcome to attend.  You can find more details and register here.

Artist As An Entrepreneur Photographer: Tom Mangelsen’s Images of Nature (Part 6)

SM: So your father was not necessarily supportive of your photography endeavor?

TM: It’s more like he did not necessarily understand my choices. I left the family business when all three brothers stayed in it in one form or another. >>>

Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 16)

By guest author Tony Scott

Looking to the Future

Tony: If you think about five years from now and say: “My vision of the work we will be doing and of my company five years from now is going to look like this,” what do you think you are going to look like?

Anand: We think that the product development market could be very cloud based. People will build products in a snap, without necessarily hiring teams. Individuals or small teams will define nimble, agile products to do all kinds of things that are currently being done by traditional software. We want to be the factory to build those. >>>

Artist As An Entrepreneur Photographer: Tom Mangelsen’s Images of Nature (Part 5)

SM: Have you done demographic analysis to determine your gallery locations?

TM: I have tried. I opened galleries in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and Dallas, Texas, both with partners. The Steamboat Springs gallery is still doing well while the one in Dallas closed. It was not as simple as just looking at demographics. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: 4G, 3D

This week’s Tech Stocks series offers a peek at the future of new communications and animation technologies with coverage of Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Dolby. Click on the full article to read this series and the rest of the week’s posts. >>>

Artist As An Entrepreneur Photographer: Tom Mangelsen’s Images of Nature (Part 4)

SM: What were they numbers like for your Park City gallery? What did real estate cost, and what were you trying to make in terms of revenue?

TM: We had incredible traffic because we were on Main Street and we stayed open late. We were still open after dinner, so we had people coming in at midnight and buying things. Most of the businesses were closed during the summer, which I thought was silly because then you had to lay off people. >>>