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A Story on Importance of Processes: From Subroto Bagchi

QAspire

This book journals growth of MindTree from idea to IPO. Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Story on Importance of Processes: From Subroto Bagchi Subroto Bagchi ’s book “ The High Performance Entrepreneur ” has shaped up my entrepreneurial thinking to a very large extent.

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Some of the Most Successful Platforms Are Ones You’ve Never Heard Of

Harvard Business Review

Then the banks decided to turn the associations into for-profit companies, IPO them, and cash out. MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later. A recent study found that SSOs published more than 200,000 standards between 1975 and 2011. Now they are very focused on making money.

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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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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

At the end of 2006, eBay pulled out of the market. billion — the world’s biggest internet offering since Google’s IPO in 2004. There have also been changes in the framework agreement around the ownership of Alipay in both 2011 and 2012, as well as a buyback of almost half of the Yahoo stake in May of 2012 for $7 billion.

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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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