The Making of Indian Giants

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An entrepreneur is an event driven person and is usually not a good disciplinarian. So every entrepreneur needs a person who has the same passion but is process driven. This key position has to be someone the entrepreneur can totally rely on. Traditionally, it has usually been a family member or a close friend. A [...]

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Googles Rivalry Comming: From Jimmy Wales by End of 2007

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo.
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His commercial start-up, Wikia, has acquired Grub, a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia’s forthcoming search service to scour the Web to index relevant [...]

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Index Ventures: Everything you need to Know about VC

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While searching, I stumble upon a Nice Presentation by Ben Holmes of Index Ventures at the FOWA Conference in London “Everything you need to know about Venture Capital“. He put the presentation on World’s Best Presentation Winner Slideshare.
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Startup Created a Revolution $99 Linux Based PC

Zonbu PC, a concept it hopes will break the pattern of big, expensive, and power-hungry desktops. As previewed in May, the company offsets the initial costs of most PCs by shifting most of the storage demands from the computer to the Internet. While the PC itself only contains a 4GB flash drive, the optional [...]

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Startup: Stock Option Planning

How to prepare a good plan for granting stock options to employees in Startups.
Following are Four steps in Planning and Distribution of Stocks in Startups.
Lay the foundation
(A) Forecast all the rounds of venture capital you will need up to the day you go IPO.
You will need several rounds of financing, typically three in three [...]

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Adobe Scientist @ India: Advice to Young Programmers, A Speech

This is the summary of speech Given by Alex Stepenov (Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems) at Adobe India on 30 Nov 2004.
1. Study , Study and Study
- Never ever think that you have acquired all or most of the knowledge which exists in the world. Almost everybody in US at age of 14 and everybody in [...]

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The Hidden Costs of Open Source

The open-source movement is quickly gaining ground and replacing proprietary technology – if you believe the hype. As with anything that excites the market, vendors are not slow to jump on the bandwagon, although their commitment is sometimes less than total and their offerings often owe more to PowerPoint than time spent on R&D.
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When switching [...]

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Lawsuit Seeks to Shut Down FaceBook

BOSTON: The owners of a rival social networking Web site are trying to shut down Facebook.com, charging in a lawsuit that Facebook’s founder stole their ideas while they were students at Harvard
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The lawsuit’s allegations against Zuckerberg include fraud, copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets. It asks a court to shut down Facebook and give [...]

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Open Source Software Strategies for Venture-Funded Startups

Should your startup release all or part of your product under an
Open Source license?
Should you use Open Source Software in
your commercial product or contribute to Open Source projects?
How can an Open Source Software strategy help your startup
company with cost reductions, marketing, public awareness or
code stability?
How does Open [...]

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MIT’s: $100 Laptop Production Begins

Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production.
Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines.
“There’s still some software to write, but this is a big step for us,” [...]

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