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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.”. As India’s IT sector boomed and so did its companies, these new hires grew too, making IT the hottest career choice at the turn of the century. These people, who joined in 1995 as 25 year-olds, have in 2013 become 42 year-olds sitting in higher positions.”.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

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from a trip to India and spoke of places with pigs and cows roaming around and no plumbing. But I did write a letter to Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India, in 1982 before my first trip there. And how much of it was based on luck, and how I could easily have been that child in an orphanage in India.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. I was the first social entrepreneur in the coffee world. I had taken photographs with film cameras as a child in India, but I never had any particularly good equipment. Image Credit: Enrico Bratta.

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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. He knew he was an entrepreneur because he couldn’t stop thinking about ideas. Why do you love speaking to students at universities?

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Millennials In Asia Are Ambitious And Entrepreneurial: VISA Study

YoungUpstarts

Much has been written about the characteristics – and quirks – of the Millennial Generation, those born between 1982 and 1995. In the case of Indonesia, this is overwhelming – 83-percent of Indonesian Millennials say they see themselves as entrepreneurs of the future. This generation is full of ambition.

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13 industries that tech founders should watch

The Next Web

The technologies that make these features work have a huge future, but entrepreneurs should also consider how they can leverage it in any product they’re working on. As my co-founder likes to say, augmented reality today is equivalent to the Internet in 1995. Michael Mayernick , Spinnakr. Thought leadership. Jessica Butcher , Blippar.

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What if it’s 1996, not 1999?

Seeing Both Sides

The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. 2010 was a year of firming and climbing out of a hole, but the tepid IPO market and general macroeconomic malaise seemed to linger until late in the year (similar to how 1995 felt). But what if it’s actually more akin to 1996?

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