sramana
How To Use Twitter For Lead Generation
Investors And Incubators Need To Look At Pre-Incubation
New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs
Amazon as publisher: What does it mean?
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Making Money From Blogs
Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M
Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: High-Octane Energy In Pune
Non-dilutive Financing Through Revenue Sharing
Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Personalization Remains An Open Problem
Why do startup incubators fail?
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/03/02/entrepreneurship-education-why-incubators-fail/
Excellent discussion here with participation from people from across the world who are involved with incubators, including some who run them.
1M/1M: Looking For A Pilot Entrepreneur To Invest In
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/02/23/1m1m-looking-for-a-pilot-entrepreneur-to-invest-in/
Entrepreneurs, I am looking for an entrepreneur with whom to pilot a new service that will be part of the 1M/1M initiative. In collaboration with an outsourced product development company in India, we will invest engineering resources to bring a product to market for an early stage startup.
Entrepreneurship Education: Bootstrapping At B-Schools?
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/02/15/entrepreneurship-education-bootstrapping-at-b-schools/
A very interesting discussion emerging here ... my thesis is that b-schools are setting up entrepreneurs for failure by over-emphasizing on venture capital and outside financing.
Entrepreneurs: Getting To $1 Trillion
If 1 million entrepreneurs can reach $1 million each in revenues, it could mean $1 trillion in GDP and 10 million jobs.
A Road Map For India
http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/04/india-entrepreneurs-innovation-intelligent-technology-mitra.html
What will India look like in 2020? Find out in A Road Map For India.
Cisco To Continue Gobbling
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/02/05/cisco-to-continue-gobbling/
Cisco will likely acquire a lot of companies in 2010.
Vision India 2020 Is Ready For You
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/02/04/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.<p>These are big ideas, each with the potential of becoming billion-dollar businesses...
Amazon, Netflix and Me
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/02/03/amazon-netflix-and-me/
As an author, I am looking forward to getting better deals by working with Amazon, Apple, etc.
Next Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Thursday, Feb 4
Free weekly strategy roundtables for entrepreneurs to address positioning, financing, and other aspects of a startup venture. Up to 1,000 people can attend each session, 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.
CIO Priority: Virtual Collaboration
Global 2000 CIOs are using telepresence and virtual reality modeling to reduce costs.
Blogosphere on Bootstrapping
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/01/23/blogosphere-on-bootstrapping-luke-timmerman/
A journey through the blogosphere on the topic of Bootstrapping.
Only Facebook Can Match Google's Run
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/01/25/only-facebook-can-match-googles-run/
Some thoughts on Google's competition.
Facebook's Ideal Future
http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/21/kayak-indeed-acquisitions-intelligent-technology-facebook.html
Facebook should enter Google’s territory.
Recording of Jan 21 Free Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/01/21/jan-21-roundtable-recording-includes-1m-1m-strategy/
This includes 2 entrepreneur pitches and a discussion of the 1M / 1M strategy.
Need Volunteers To Help With 1M/1M
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/01/19/need-volunteers-to-help-with-1m1m/
I am looking for volunteers to work on the 1M / 1M project - help 1 million entrepreneurs reach 1 million in revenue. Tomorrow morning, at 8am PT, I will be hosting an online roundtable to discuss the strategy.
Deal Radar 2010: Should Facebook Acquire Into Vertical Search?
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/01/19/deal-radar-2010-should-facebook-acquire-into-vertical-search/
Google has stayed off Vertical Search so far, leaving a fertile territory wide open. Should Facebook take advantage of that hole?
Baidu, Alibaba.com, Smiling At Google’s Stance
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/01/15/baidu-alibaba-com-smiling-at-googles-stance/
Baidu and Alibaba stand to gain from Google pulling out of China.
How important is meeting in person?
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/01/18/how-important-is-meeting-in-person/
I am working on a story on doing business online and especially over video conferencing, versus in person meetings ... any thoughts on where you sit on the issue?
Since then, and especially after this Forbes story, he was in the Economist.
So no, he is no longer unknown.