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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. Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year.