Catching Up On Readings: The Mexico Rush

The share of manufactured goods from Mexico in the American import market has increased while that of China has declined. This New York Times feature covers the rushing of US companies to Mexico. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Tech Posts
Marketo Should Roll-Up Their Category, Acquire On24
HP’s Turnaround Now Focusing on the Cloud
Flipkart Leads India’s e-Commerce Market, Acquires Myntra
LeapFrog Getting Into Wearables

Entrepreneur Journeys
Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: DefinitiveDeals Founder Mattias Larson
Black Entrepreneur in North Carolina Says No Bias: Rod Brown, COO of OnceLogix
Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: Axosoft CEO Hamid Shojaee

Upcoming Roundtables

As part of the 1M/1M initiative, Sramana Mitra offers free online strategy roundtables for entrepreneurs looking to discuss positioning, financing, and other aspects of a startup venture. Only the first five who register to pitch will be able to present their business ideas. These roundtables are public forums and recordings of all sessions are available here. Entrepreneurs who pitch at the roundtables will receive media exposure through the 1M/1M roundtable recap column which is posted on Sramana’s blog and elsewhere. All attendees are able to join in on the conversations via a live chat.

Thursday, June 5, 2014, 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST, Register Here.

Thursday, June 12, 2014, 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST, Register Here.

Thursday, June 19, 2014, 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST, Register Here.

Thursday, June 26, 2014, 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST, Register Here.

Catching Up On Readings: The Capitalists’ Dilemma

This HBR article looks at the capitalists’ dilemma of sitting on hordes of cash rather than investing on innovating and creating a customer. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.
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Catching Up On Readings: Aspiring Female Engineers

This TechCrunch feature about the Square Code Camp looks at how this programming camp has helped aspiring female engineers. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Tech Posts
Electronic Arts Delivers on Next Gen Consoles
Squarespace’s Silent Growth
Automattic Wants to Take-Over the Web
Credit Karma Sees Strong Revenue Growth, No Profit Yet
Yelp vs. OpenTable

Entrepreneur Journeys
Scaling a Fat Startup: MongoDB CEO Max Schireson
Building a New Online Fashion Brand: Combatant Gentleman CEO Vishaal Melwani

Thought Leaders in Online Education
Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas

Upcoming Roundtables
As part of the 1M/1M initiative, Sramana Mitra offers free online strategy roundtables for entrepreneurs looking to discuss positioning, financing, and other aspects of a startup venture. Only the first five who register to pitch will be able to present their business ideas. These roundtables are public forums and recordings of all sessions are available here. Entrepreneurs who pitch at the roundtables will receive media exposure through the 1M/1M roundtable recap column which is posted on Sramana’s blog and elsewhere. All attendees are able to join in on the conversations via a live chat.

Thursday, May 22, 2014, 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST, Register Here.

Thursday, May 29, 2014, 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST, Register Here.

Catching Up On Readings: Mother’s Day

This Mother’s Day, Women 2.0 has a special feature on startups that are making moms’ lives easier with their amazing products and ideas. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: The Future of Reading

This feature on Wired says the smart reading device of the future could well be paper, at least for deep reading. It examines research on the differences in reading comprehension for e-readers and paper. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: The Sharing Economy

This feature on Wired traces the evolution of trust which has led to increasing number of services and startups based on the sharing model. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Catching Up On Readings: Wireless Electricity

This feature on CNN explores the future of a world powered by wireless electricity. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.  >>>

Catching Up On Readings: 2014 Game Developers Choice Awards

VentureBeat follows the annual Game Developers Choice Awards and how the issue of diversity is taking centrestage. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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