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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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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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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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Eric Schmidt's Days at Google Always Seemed Numbered

Harvard Business Review

When I wrote a cover story on Google for Time magazine in 2006 , there was a widespread sense in the industry that CEO Eric Schmidt had been brought into Google ( he had previously been CEO of Novell ) to provide "adult supervision" to the kids who had founded the company. How I Did It: Google's CEO on the Enduring Lessons of a Quirky IPO.

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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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Why Microsoft Is Willing to Pay So Much for GitHub

Harvard Business Review

It’s paying for the access it gets to the legions of developers who use GitHub’s code repository products on a daily basis (the company’s strategic value) — so they can be guided into the Microsoft developer environment, where the real money is made. In other words, Microsoft is not paying $7.5

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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. Commentators tend to give a lot of credit to Apple and Google for developing great mobile software platforms. Now they are very focused on making money.

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