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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 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. Of course with the right partner and a healthy pre-money valuation , we will consider a series A investment with a combination of Venture debt. There is actually a simple cure for this Buzzword Bingo.

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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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Under Fire, Microfinance Faces Falling Out of Favor

Harvard Business Review

Microfinance has come under fire in the past 18 months, triggered in part by SKS Microfinance's IPO. Dr. Muhammad Yunus introduced the concept of microfinance in 1983; in 2006, he won the Nobel Prize for his pioneering efforts. It's worth taking a step back and remembering how this movement got started, and what it can accomplish.

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Why Microsoft Is Willing to Pay So Much for GitHub

Harvard Business Review

In 2006 Google acquired YouTube for an eye-popping (for the time) figure of $1.6 In other words, Microsoft is not paying $7.5 billion for GitHub for its ability to make money (its financial value). Let’s look at a couple of well-known examples of strategic value.

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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. By the mid 2000s MasterCard and Visa were handling trillions of dollars of transactions between consumers and merchants around the world.

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