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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. 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. You can say that we are sort of using cloud computing a bit.

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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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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data.

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8

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

Kevin Eikenberry

Dice was actually launched in 1990, initially as a bulletin board service for recruiters – and by the late 1990’s had ascended to prominence as the go-to site for finding software developers in Silicon Valley. Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996.

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