Catching Up On Readings

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Catching Up On Readings: 10 Ideas To Change The World

CNN features 10 emerging ideas in technology and related fields that have huge potential to change the world: to make us healthier, to keep us safer on the highways, to protect the coastline during storms, to help our computers think for themselves, to literally reinvent the wheel. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.
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Catching Up On Readings: Failure Tolerance

One of the greatest achievements of Silicon Valley has been to create a failure-tolerant culture.

It allows us to experiment, learn, try again.

We’re very interested in hearing from entrepreneurs who have failed with a venture but have the stamina and enthusiasm to try again. We’re interested in discussing strategy, learnings, course-corrections, etc. at our free online entrepreneur roundtables.

The next one, our 203rd, is on Thursday, at 8am Pacific. Please register here. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.

Tech Stocks

GrubHub Seamless Taking Local Restaurants to the Internet
TubeMogul Gearing Up for an IPO This Year
Is Marketo Next on the Acquisition List?
Pivotal Riding High on PaaS Growth
BlackBerry Counting on the Emerging Markets

Entrepreneur Journeys

How An Entrepreneur Couple Bootstrapped to $5M: RuffleButts CEO Amber Schaub and COO Mark Schaub
From The Seedy Underworld of Drugs and Prostitution To Entrepreneurial Success: David Sharpe’s Journey with Empower Network

Thought Leaders in Big Data

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Naveen Sharma, Chief Innovation Officer, Retail, Xerox (Part 1)

Outsourcing: Ed Cross, Executive Director – Procurement & HRO at Xchanging (Part 7)

Ed Cross: When I was at Pricewaterhouse, I was heavily involved in the area of procurement project consultancy. Exchanges were much heralded and I was very supportive of them but the more I got into them, I observed that they didn’t take off. A lot of them lost ground, went bankrupt, or disappeared. There’s an easier route to buying stuff but I’m not convinced that for many organizations, they’re able to provide the most competitive prices, the appropriate quality, and service standards for the customer against what they could do for themselves.

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Catching Up On Readings: Coolest Tech in 2014

CNN features a list of ground-breaking developments of the year ahead ranging from space tourism to crowd-funding. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.

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January 31 – Kolkata TiECon 2014

Kolkata TiECon 2014 will serve as a forum for entrepreneurs, particularly the enterprising youth, who are looking for a platform to network and interact with industry veterans and thought leaders – a perfect opportunity for them to gain inspiration and motivation for career aspirations. The Kolkata TiECon 2014 revolves around the theme ‘Idea to Corporation’ which represents the journey of an entrepreneur.

You can learn more here and REGISTER HERE.

Catching up on Readings: CES 2014

Tech Crunch covers the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which saw a torrent of wearable health gadgets. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.

Tech Stocks
MongoDB Aims For $10 Billion Valuation
How Well Does Flipboard Monetize?
Why Does Evernote Need So Much Capital?
Lofty Valuations Continue With DropBox
Square’s IPO Expected Soon

Entrepreneur Journeys
Interview with Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo
Interview with Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil, Founders of DataStax

Thought Leaders in Online Education
Interview with Mike Pellerin, Director of Enterasys University

Upcoming 1M/1M 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, January 16, 2013, 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India, Register Here.

Thursday, January 23, 2013, 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India, Register Here.

Catching Up On Readings: 10 Inventions to Watch For

CNN features a fun and thought-provoking list of inventions ranging from a camera that bounces to a light that is powered by gravity. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link. >>>