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A Story on Importance of Processes: From Subroto Bagchi

QAspire

This book journals growth of MindTree from idea to IPO. Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Story on Importance of Processes: From Subroto Bagchi Subroto Bagchi ’s book “ The High Performance Entrepreneur ” has shaped up my entrepreneurial thinking to a very large extent.

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Midsized Firms Can’t Afford Bad Bets

Harvard Business Review

Unlike a Fortune 500 company that can spend tens of millions of dollars on external consultants to help implement such a system, this company was stingy with its IT dollars. By 2011, the company revenues were $86 million, and it filed for its own public stock offering.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups.

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A History of the Job Listing and How It Just Died [Infographic]

Kevin Eikenberry

Dice was actually launched in 1990, initially as a bulletin board service for recruiters – and by the late 1990’s had ascended to prominence as the go-to site for finding software developers in Silicon Valley. Subsequent investment and growth would lead to an IPO in 1999. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996.

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