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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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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. 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.

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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. But I do know that it will form a huge basis of the future of the Internet, how we consume media, how we communicate with friends, how we play games and how we shop. they’ll try to “move up the stack&# and provide some of these services themselves.