Catching Up On Readings: Vision India 2020 Now On Kindle

Vision India 2020, my futuristic retrospective of 45 business ideas for the subcontinent, is ready for you as a physical book and on Kindle. Click here to order it on Amazon. You can read all of this week’s posts by clicking on the full article.

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Built To Enjoy: eClinicalWorks CEO Girish Navani (Part 4)

SM: When you first started selling to individual physicians, how much money were they willing to pay? Typically when you bootstrap a company, you need to make money quickly in order to survive.

GN: To be completely honest, that is one area where I completely lucked out. I ended up making a significant amount of money buying and selling options in a big storage company. >>>

Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Power Lies Within Oneself

From a review of Bootstrapping for The Indian Express:

“I was quite apprehensive about reading the book (not being a management person) until I read the quote in the prologue, ‘Tat Tvam Asi’ – a Hindu concept that explains how power lies within oneself.  This defines the concept of the book in a nutshell. >>>

Built To Enjoy: eClinicalWorks CEO Girish Navani (Part 3)

SM: At the point when you were founding eClinicalWorks what was your intent and vision?

GN: It was not very difficult for me to visualize the goal. What I was hoping to do was digitize healthcare just like finance and telecom had become digitized. We did not set out to build an EMR or a billing system. >>>

February 11 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, here is the recording of yesterday’s roundtable:

Forbes Column 2010: Entrepreneurs: Getting To $1 Trillion

Zero In this week presents the One Million by One Million movement to President Obama. Please read Entrepreneurs: Getting To $1 Trillion, and then send an email to Mr. President through whitehouse.gov asking him to pay attention. Please include the URL.

Even if you do not have five hours a week to contribute to this project, I hope you will spare two minutes to do this for us. We need thousands of voices to speak up to get attention, it appears. Many thanks!

ps. As of Monday afternoon morning 3:00 am Pacific Time, the 1M/1M Ambassadors LinkedIn group has 157 members. I am thrilled to have so many of you interested in taking this movement forward. Let us see what we can do together!

MediaTek (Part 5): Strategy and Outlook

By guest author Nalini Kumar Muppala

MediaTek’s success in extending its winning streak hinges on the success of its alliances such as that with Leadcore Technology, which has been a longtime supplier to China Mobile. The partnership has enabled MediaTek to gain a strong position in the TD-SCDMA market. To cement its position in this market, the company is now partnering with startup ASTwireless. >>>

Built To Enjoy: eClinicalWorks CEO Girish Navani (Part 2)

SM: At PetroVantage, did you focus primarily on technology or did you have a business strategy role there as well?

GN: Technology was one aspect, but I was also exposed to leading a team and making business efficient. I stood my ground quite comfortably when I was exposed to senior executives in other companies like I was during my four weeks in England. >>>