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Is America’s Corporate Culture In The Dark Ages?

YoungUpstarts

I was a founder and former CEO of Mustang Engineering, and from 2005 through 2014, Mustang opened several international offices. Within the next few years, Mustang added offices in Melbourne and Perth, Australia; Mumbai, India; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bogota, Colombia; Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia; and Norway.

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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. The seeds for the movie Patang were based on the memories of my uncles dueling kites. Kite flying is meditation in its simplest form.

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Part 2 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Steve Weinstein and Venk Shukla

Steve Blank

I spoke with Steve about innovation in the movie industry, and to Venk about his journey from bureaucrat in India to entrepreneur here in the U.S., Back in 2005 … (movie studios) were very worried about piracy, and were also worried that the whole digital world was coming on like a freight train and they really didn’t understand it.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. Your India strategy? • In the U.S. IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

When I started Idea Grove in 2005, most PR firms had names like law firms – the name of the firm was the name of the owner or partners. The word is popular in South India. (An interesting aside: revenue continued at old levels, even after slashing work hours by 60%). Thanks to Jeremy Britton, 24HourWealthCoach.com ! #21-

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Why Are Indians So Entrepreneurial In The U.S.?

ReadWriteStart

What makes entrepreneurs from India so different? since 2005, a drop that Wadhwa calls “shocking.”. The immigrant founders surveyed in Wadhwa’s study hail from 60 different countries - but a full third of them are from India. He’s a rock star in India,” Wadhwa says. Just a few decades ago India was going nowhere.