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A Story on Importance of Processes: From Subroto Bagchi

QAspire

This book journals growth of MindTree from idea to IPO. Process Improvement , Quality | Tanmay February 15, 2010 3 Comments By L M Foong pr , March 30, 2010 @ 2:28 pm I faced with similar situation when I tried to emphasise on process approach to certain category of employees who claimed they do not need a process to perform their duties.

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

In terms of exit strategy , our goal is an IPO but at the right price and the right partner, we won’t exclude the acquisition option. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) There is actually a simple cure for this Buzzword Bingo.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation.

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Don’t Build Your Startup Outside of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York has grown by almost 65%. Out of 335 acquisitions captured in Crunchbase in California since 2006, 225 were of California companies. And the numbers tell a similar story: startups are mushrooming up everywhere.

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When a Product Fails, Find a New Direction

Harvard Business Review

Cephalon's IPO was in 1991, part of the second wave of biotechnology companies to sell shares to the public. By 2010, sales exceeded $2B. Baldino passed away in 2010, but his actions offer an example for CEOs today. One CEO who had the ability to turn around a disaster was Frank Baldino of Cephalon.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 Harvard Business School case by Julie M. At the end of 2006, eBay pulled out of the market. billion — the world’s biggest internet offering since Google’s IPO in 2004. capital markets in what is estimated to be one of the largest IPOs ever. Tsai, for example, clearly understood U.S.

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A History of the Job Listing and How It Just Died [Infographic]

Kevin Eikenberry

Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999. While LinkedIn was ramping up, Monster would hit fever pitch: by 2006, it was one of the 20 most visited sites on the web. Careerbuilder was initially a service that helped companies launch job listings and then managed the inbound application volume.

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