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Why India Will Become The SaaS Hotbed Of Tomorrow

YoungUpstarts

All the ingredients for Indian SaaS dominance are here: From producing some of the world’s best developers to competing on cost and producing quality products of global standard. Let’s explore why India is set to grow in the SaaS sector, what it means for both employers and employees and what the rest of the world needs to know about it.

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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

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In 1998, a few years after launching, the company got a $200,000 SBA-guaranteed loan. It has grown from five employees generating $120,000 in annual revenue to 350 employees generating annual revenues of $16.5 Since its inception, iRobot has sold over 30 million robots globally. TRISTAR — Engineering its own success.

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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

By comparison, Brian Morgan, who founded Adventure Life , from Missoula, Montana, started in 1998 with 16 employees and a decade later was earning $11 million after an initial investment capital of $3,000 spent on a laptop and two brochures. Leverage the power of the Internet to reach a global audience.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. You can’t have a $20 million sales estimate with 10 employees in the company and a few hundred thousand dollars of marketing expense.

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How Diversity Can Increase Innovation And Growth In Your Business

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With an almost 50 percent split between male (57%) and female (43%) employees, a diversity of ages of employees, with 30 percent identifying as Asian, 30 percent Hispanic/Latino, 13 percent Caucasian, and 27 percent Other, every aspect of our company’s make-up is diverse.

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Serial CEO Judy Estrin On Startups and Innovation

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She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. When I started they had 18,000 employees and double that when I left." Judy Estrin is a serial entrepreneur, having started seven tech companies since 1981.

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“What the Heck Is Wrong With My Leadership?”

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Viljakainen, author of “ No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age “ In 1998, I sold part of my company (which I had founded in 1986, when I was 13) to the Finnish IT services firm Tieto. But Tieto was growing rapidly and going global. The best score was 100; I had started out, in 1998, in the 90s. by Pekka A.