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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

Enter India. A lot of people joined the industry from 1995-96.”. There were engineers of all types—mechanical, civil, electrical etc., and the non-engineering kinds. There were engineers of all types—mechanical, civil, electrical etc., and the non-engineering kinds. India needs better technological training.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. After Meebo launched, his friends helped him get the word out and soon they were getting coverage as far a China and India. Tell us about the Meebo launch.

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13 industries that tech founders should watch

The Next Web

Recommendation engines, predictive suggestions, and smart filtering are all at the heart of next-generation user experiences. As my co-founder likes to say, augmented reality today is equivalent to the Internet in 1995. It’s why I visit India twice a year to meet young entrepreneurs and find out what’s going on there.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My engineering career-as a researcher at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs, before I started Flarion-had been in communications and information theory, so I’d expected to stay involved in those technologies. I had taken photographs with film cameras as a child in India, but I never had any particularly good equipment.

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Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made?

entrepreMusings

from 1995 to 2005. of the nation’s tech and engineering firms. population and only 6% of the Silicon Valley high-tech workforce was born in India. &#. A survey conducted by my research team at Duke University found that this proportion had increased to 15.5% My team also determined that in this period, Indians started 6.7%

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Software Development Engineer, Senior-IEB-Commercial Services (795929) Job -. WSJ India Page. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Message Center ( new). Edition Home. ↓ More. Deutschland.

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2011 Consumer Internet Predictions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Finding money online (principally online lending) has not seen the same level of explosive growth in the US, although in Europe and India there has been real growth in microlending (including “pay day loans”) from companies ranging from Wonga to SKS Finance. Putting fun into ecommerce.

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