The Long Road to Edutainment: Tabula Digita CEO Ntiedo Etuk (Part 6)

SM: Which other districts besides New York City have you been successful in?

NE: Up until this point, we have been very focused on four major areas: New York, Florida, Illinois and Texas. Those four states plus California are where most education dollars are spent. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Ancestry.com

You may not be able to choose your family, but with Ancestry.com you have a better chance of finding them. Ancestry.com is a site dedicated to helping users find information about their family history. Subscribers to the site can search historical record collections, organize their family history, create profiles for each family member, and upload personal photos and documents for safekeeping. Members can also invite others to share and contribute to their family tree. The site has access to over 24,000 historical databases that include five billion names. >>>

The Long Road to Edutainment: Tabula Digita CEO Ntiedo Etuk (Part 5)

SM: For your first product, what was your target segment?

NE: It was middle school. We went after the pre-algebra and algebra crowd. We went after math because we knew that math and science would be critical problems for the country. Additionally, it is very easy to measure if you get an answer right or wrong in math. >>>

Breaking The 9 to 5 Jail

Devesh Dwivedi interviewed Sramana recently on Breaking The 9 to 5Jail . It’s an interesting conversation that discusses using your 9 to 5 corporate job as a technique of bootstrapping and other related issues. >>>

The Need for the Commercialization of Water in India

By Guest Author Rohit P. Singh

India, in spite of being surrounded by bodies of water on three sides, being crossed by 13 major rivers, and being home to the place with the world’s highest rainfall (Cherapunji) and largest river island (Majuli), is suffering from an acute water crisis. Even as there have been great advances in the fields of science and technology, people in India are still exposed to health hazards because of water, which itself is the reason for life on our planet. >>>

Mompreneur Stories: Flexibility

By Guest Author Erika Valdez

There are many extraordinary examples of women entrepreneurs out there—women who, due to various circumstances, have chosen to take the path of entrepreneurship and are now owners of successful businesses. Over the past few weeks I have had the opportunity to interview many women, most of them moms, who have ventured into entrepreneurship and who are now success stories. These women have shared their experiences as mompreneurs and talked about the challenges they encountered in their transitions. Each has a unique and admirable story. >>>

The Long Road to Edutainment: Tabula Digita CEO Ntiedo Etuk (Part 4)

SM: Did your contract with the Princeton Review get the company established financially?

NE: In the middle of September we finally got the contract completed. On September 15th we were finally done, but they told me they were not going to transfer the money until October 1st. By September 30th we had drained everything. >>>

BusinessWeek On Calcutta’s Prospects

Here is a ridiculous article from BusinessWeek: Kolkata: A New Hot Spot in India. Mehul Srivastava writes: with its Communist leadership on the way out, the former Calcutta is poised for quick growth. >>>