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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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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008. ” In 2011, Rita McGrath echoed another one of Iver and Davenport’s points: the importance of failure. In 2011, Joshua Gans used Google+ to argue that the company was now playing catchup in key areas.

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Midsized Firms Can’t Afford Bad Bets

Harvard Business Review

BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find. Poring through the IPO documentation of several larger competitors that had introduced similar devices, they produced a set of financial data that showed the growth and profitability of competing products.

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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%. For founders thinking about launching companies outside of New York, Massachusetts, or California, that means your odds of pre-IPO success are automatically lower before you’ve even started.

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How Chinese Companies Can Develop Global Brands

Harvard Business Review

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture. Redesign the organization.

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Does Silicon Valley Still Care About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

VC investment in cleantech “has declined sharply since 2011” according to a new analysis by the Brookings Institution. VC funding for cleantech went down during the recession, but as a share of total VC funding it held steady at 15-17% from 2008 to 2011. In 2011, cleantech represented nearly 17% of total U.S.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

.” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year. And we counted 10 local exits in 2014. Serious government skin in the game.