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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On IIT Kharagpur, India

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For the uninitiated, IIT KGP is considered one of the top technology schools in India, and it is located in the Eastern part of the country, not far from the city of Kolkata. My 1997 recruitment visit met with tepid response, with the student body largely interested in multinational placements at the time.

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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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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. Ajay Prasad, the founder of GMR Web Team < [link] > #15) Take Advantage of an Opportunity.

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

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Michael Ovitz , the co-founder of CAA will be the keynote speaker. Attempts at “moving up the stack&# – In 1997 I led a project to help senior management at British Telecom define its Internet strategy. British, India & Pakistani ex-pats on a global scale want to watch cricket.