Silicon Valley Entrepreneur and Strategy Consultant Sramana Mitra writes about Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Emerging Technology, Market Moves, and sundry other topics in her Blog "Sramana Mitra on Strategy". Read more of her writings at http://www.sramanamitra.com.
Venture Capital In India India is flushed with investment commitments from the giants of technology. Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, SAP, Intel, and AMD have each committed over a billion to further develop their India presence.So have many of the leading venture capital firms from Silicon Valley. For the longest time, V... Similar Editorial : Evaluating Venture Lease Transactions by George A. Parker. | Source : Free Investment Guide
Musings On The Restaurant Business. Did you know restaurant services in the US is a $430 Billion per year industry? I didn't.Common sense would suggest that good restaurants be placed in high-income areas such as Silicon Valley. Why then does PaloAlto - Menlo Park - Los Altos have so little to offer? After all, the popula... Similar Editorial : Media Musings by Gordon Black. | Source : Entrepreneur Business Plan
Tutoring: Enormous Business Opportunity New York Times reports that the tutoring program offered by law is going unused.George Bush's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has tremendous supplemental educational services funding. Students, under NCLB, are eligible for free tutoring, and according to this article, roughly two million pu... Similar Editorial : Private Tutoring by asupport. | Source : Business Development Strategy
A Vision For IC DFM Many EDA startups got funded in the last 3 years to address Design For Manufacturability of Chips. Catena, however, was an internal Cadence project that finally sees light of day.Catena does post-layout optimization on shape-based parameters (vias, wires) to arrive at a better interconne... Similar Editorial : I Have A Vision by John Delavera. | Source : Microsft CRM 3.0
2005: Year Of The Balance Of Power We have been watching the 3-Disc TV Series, Napoleon, recently. There is a scene when Napoleon challenges his friend, the Czar Alexander of Russia, on why Austria is being allowed to arm itself and build a competing power. Alexander says, like Napoleon's Foreign Affairs Minister, Monsieur Talleyran... Similar Editorial : Prioritize in 2005 by Diann Cannon. | Source : Business Development Strategy
Don Lucas, God Father I have been researching the history of Venture Capital in Silicon Valley, and certain names come up as those of maximum significance.General William H. Draper Jr. became the first professional West Coast venture capitalist when he founded Draper, Gaither & Anderson in 1958. Donald L. Luc... Source : Business Development Strategy
Double Bottomline Entrepreneurship Today, I spoke with Dr. Ken Gibson, Founder of LearningRx, and listened to quite a fascinating story of an entrepreneur. Ken was an Optometrist, with a strong interest in business, and at some point, provided business consulting to over 300 Optometrists, before developing the methodology for trainin... Similar Editorial : Single or Double Opt by F. Terrence Markle. | Source : Tips for Entrepreneurs
Sex And The Single Zillionaire This is the title of a new book by Tom Perkins, one of the pioneers of Silicon Valley, whose name is on the esteemed firm Kleiner Perkins. This week, the MIT alumni association honored Tom at the Spotlight '06 event, and Tom delivered a screwball speech which had the entire audience rolling with sp... Similar Editorial : Single or Double Opt by F. Terrence Markle. | Source : Relationship Advice
Where Is Silicon Valleys A-Team? I once worked on a company funded by Pierre Lamond, veteran Venture Capitalist at Sequoia Capital. During the interview, Pierre asked me, "How old is your father? What does he do? Is he retired?" I explained, that my father (in his sixties) is an entrepreneur, and will never retire, because he sti... Similar Editorial : Silicon Valley by Janet Ilacqua. | Source : Microsft CRM 3.0
Indian Anime The global digital animation industry is poised to grow to $70 billion by this year. The Indian animation industry is expected to reach $15 billion by 2008. Big numbers, pointing to India's next big outsourcing boom. Labor arbitrage numbers are absolutely fantastic: $125/hour in the US versus $25/h... Similar Editorial : Indian Traffic by tapan. | Source : Microsft CRM 3.0
First LBO In For-Profit Education WSJ Reports that Providence Equity Partners and Goldman Sachs are about to purchase Education Management Corp. (Nasdaq: EDMC) for $3.4 billion.Education Management runs 72 primary campuses across the U.S. and Canada, training its 72,000 enrolled students in fields such as fashion, psycho... Source : Business Partnership
Autodesk Gaining In 3D ... Adobe? Autodesk buys Alias, a privately held developer of three-dimensional graphics technology, for $182 million in cash. Toronto-based Alias posted revenues of $83 million for the year ended June 30. Its customers include car makers BMW and General Motors Corp. and game maker Nintendo. Alias is a leader ... Similar Editorial : Gaining Business Intelligence by Jerome Bergerou. | Source : Microsft CRM 3.0
Whats After Starbucks? It would be fair to say that Starbucks has penetrated the cultural fabric of America quite extensively. Now, it is also attempting to do the same with the rest of the world. It has become a place to get together with friends, an extended office, a pick-up joint, and many other things - different thi... Similar Editorial : Whats In A by Sibyl McLendon. | Source : Business Partnership
Digging For Diamonds Jewelry has become a major online category, in a counter-intuitive development within the e-commerce business. Online jewelry sales are expected to reach $3.2 billion this year, compared with $2.5 billion last year. Overall, 8% of all jewelry sales in 2005 are expected to come from the I... Similar Editorial : How Diamonds Are Rated by teahupoo. | Source : Jewelry Buying Guide
2005 Year Of The Rooster Let Davids defeat Goliaths, then become Goliaths, only to be defeated by new Davids. Let Capitalism continue to provide the framework supporting this cycle.Let us keep building... Similar Editorial : 2005 Year Of The Rooster by Sramana Mitra.
God Of Our Father I wonder, though, who are the torch bearers of the likes of Don Lucas and Tom Perkins - the great venture capitalists, the great mentors, the great God Fathers?... Similar Editorial : Canals Of Our City by Rahul Viz.
Private Equity Deals 2009 After all, how many enterprises really have built-in scalability in their business model?Most companies simply go public and then struggle, giving smart investors absolutely no reason to touch them, a...... Similar Editorial : A Private Equity Firm by Terry Fitzroy.
Tarzan And The Valley Of Gold And for the outside world that looks, still, at Silicon Valley, with wide-eyed wonder and awe, it would be appropriate to understand what makes Silicon Valleys DNA sustainable.It is the search for gr...... Similar Editorial : Check The Status Of My Refund by Gen Wright.
Team-of-Twenty-One Hence, my recommendation of five Teams-of-Twenty-One chosen from Bangalore, Delhi, Pune, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kanpur, Indore, Cochin... Similar Editorial : Business Careers High School by Christian Tylor.
