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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On IIT Kharagpur, India

ReadWriteStart

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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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

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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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. He was a lead for distributed teams in India, Europe and the U.S., Remote teams are a great thing if you do it right: a team in India, a team in the U.K.

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March 11: SXSW Innovation Awards

Austin Startup

The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. For 2019, finalists come from Australia, India, Sweden, France, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, and the UK.

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[Sponsored] Why Angel Broking Demat Account Is Your Best Investment Option In 2018

YoungUpstarts

DEMAT Account came into existence in India in the year of 1997, before which stocks and shares were issued as well as traded in physical paper form.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. ” The options were to either go back home to New Delhi, India, or, risk getting myself into an immigration nightmare. For anyone coming from India (like me) or China, this mean a protracted waiting period.

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing. The fact that Singapore, Brazil, India, China, Chile, the U.K., Of the 85 IPOs priced so far this year, only 28 are up. ” (ix) The U.S.