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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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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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After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. Thanks to Alexi Venneri, Digital Air Strike ! #6)

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

Both Sides of the Table

Michael Ovitz , the co-founder of CAA will be the keynote speaker. If you’re an OEM who wants to move more hardware but you don’t have the muscle to create an entire media ecosystem then you’re best off finding a partner who can build a software OS, app platform and search capabilities. They both gained.