Next Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs on Thursday, February 11

Sramana Mitra is offering this free online strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs looking to discuss positioning, financing, and other aspects of a startup venture.  Up to 1,000 people can attend, but only the first five who register to pitch will be able to present their business ideas.  All attendees are able to join in on the conversations via a live chat.  This hour-long session will begin at 8am PST/11am EST/9:30pm IST. 

You can find more details and register here.

We hope you’ll join us and tell other entrepreneurs!

Blogosphere on Bootstrapping: Cathy Bogaart

Cathy Bogaart also sent me something about Carl Mercier and his wisdom: Bootstrapping or “How to be a cheap b@st@rd”.

You need to survive two years, so have enough money for two years. You may need to sell yourself (as a consultant!) to make up the shortfall. And, by the way, your revenue projections are wrong. So is your timeline. Plan for that. If it’s not working after two years, you’re doing something wrong, so change it.

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Roundtable Starting at 8am

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Vision India 2020 Is Ready For You

Readers, you know that I have been working on Vision India 2020 for almost two years. The book is a collection of my 45 business ideas leveraging India’s strategic advantages, spanning a diverse set of sectors ranging from technology to education, healthcare to infrastructure, film to rural development.

These are big ideas, each with the potential of becoming billion-dollar businesses while addressing specific market opportunities in unique ways. I have, in effect, given you access to my notebook, so that some of you can take these ideas forward. >>>

Online Tutoring Still In Its Infancy: Sylvan Learning CEO Jeff Cohen (Part 1)

Jeff Cohen is the president of Sylvan Learning, a leading provider of tutoring services to students of all ages, grades, and skill levels. Before rejoining Sylvan, he served as president of Catapult Learning, which he grew from $65 million to more than $130 million. Prior to joining Catapult Learning, he was the senior vice president for business unit management at Prometric, Inc.

SM: Jeff, can you give me an overview of your background to set the stage?

JC: I have been in my current position of CEO for about 18 months. >>>

Blogosphere on Bootstrapping: Marc MacLeod

Marc MacLeod emailed me saying that “a topic near and dear to my frugal Scottish heart” and sent over a few useful tips in How to save money. >>>

Deal Radar 2010: Webyog

By guest author Shailesh Otari

Today’s Deal Radar goes back to India, to a Bangalore-based product company called Webyog. Webyog is a leader in GUI and monitoring tools for MySQL databases. Its flagship product, SQLyog, is a graphical environment for MySQL. The company also provides MySQL monitoring and advisory tools called MONyog for MySQL DBAs. SQLyog is available in two editions – an open source community edition and an enterprise edition. According to the company, the community edition has been downloaded 2 million times. Webyog is also venturing into other markets. For example, it has recently released a Gmail plug-in, Mailbrowser. >>>

Blueprint For Saving 11 Billion Dollars In Healthcare Costs: MD On-Line CEO Bill Bartzak (Part 7)

SM: If you are able to pull in 600 doctors’ offices a month, I imagine that a lot of that is happening on its own.

BB: We have to spend about 15 to 20 minutes on the phone with each new office to teach them how to use the system. >>>