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PATANG (The Kite) – An Award Winning Film by Prashant Bhargava – Comes to Boulder

Feld Thoughts

In India kite flying transcends boundaries. In 2005, I visited Ahmedabad to experience their annual kite festival, the largest in India. Patang’s joyful message and its cinematic magic developed organically. The seeds for the movie Patang were based on the memories of my uncles dueling kites.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation!

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Is America’s Corporate Culture In The Dark Ages?

YoungUpstarts

This divide between America’s doggedly industrious approach on the one hand, and the less-relentless global approach on the other, might make it seem that a corporate culture developed for a U.S. I was a founder and former CEO of Mustang Engineering, and from 2005 through 2014, Mustang opened several international offices.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Once I developed the fabric I wanted it to have a name that was memorable, and that described it in one word. However, over the course of the following 5 years, my love for tequila, my desire to develop a brand, and that nickname came together to birth Juan Lobo Tequila, leading me to become passionate about 100% blue agave, sipping tequilas.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). billion) in 2005. billion) in 2005. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

I use to to learn, to grow, to ask questions for which I’m curious and to further develop relationships that I have. After Meebo launched, his friends helped him get the word out and soon they were getting coverage as far a China and India. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. Not a chance.

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The 5 Biggest Outsourcing Blunders

Growthink Blog

For example, the development of your website is generally a one-time process. For example, if you own a chain of restaurants, you generally don''t have (nor should you) the skills to develop a cutting-edge website in-house. I hired an outsourced tech person on August 16, 2005. In fact, I''ve had amazing success with just this.

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