From Entrepreneurs to Leaders

Shirish Deodhar, "From Entrepreneurs to Leaders"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0070680701 | PDF | pages: 260 | 7.5 mb
About The Author: ? Co-Founder of nFactorial Software which provides 360 degrees guidance to software product companies on product, finance, sales & marketing and operations ? Has over 25 years of software industry experience in US and India ? Senior VP at Symphony Services Inc. (2004-07) ? CEO, In-Reality (2004) ? President, India subsidiary of VERITAS Software (now Symantec Inc.)(1999-2003) ? Holds 1 US patent and presented over 10 technical papers at international and national conferences. ? B-Tech (EE) from IIT Bombay (1980) and MS from Hawaii University, USA (1981) Table of Contents Prologue v Acknowledgements xv 1 The Rise of Indian Software Product Companies 1 Indian IT?10 Year Leaps 1 Product Business is Very Different from Services 3 Cloud Services and Mobile Apps 6 Some Numbers Related to Software Services and Products 8 Why More Indian Software Product Companies will Emerge 9 Impact of 2008-09 Global Economic Slowdown 10 Quest for India's Billion-dollar Software Product Company 11 2 Lessons in Leadership [. . learnt while taking VERITAS from start-up to $1.5 billion in ten years (1990-2000)] 13 Rise of a Phoenix 14 Leading People 19 Last Words 22 3 Off the Starting Block: The Initial Trigger and Plan (Start-ups?Low and pre-revenue companies) 23 Taking the Plunge 23 Success Factor 1: Idea with Business Potential 26 Success Factor 2: Founders 30 Success Factor 3: Seed Money 35 Some Aspects of Company Formation 38 ProFound Technologies: Information Explorer Suite 41 VSoft Technologies and Solutions: Record and Track Your Finances 45 Career Vidya Labs: From Wall S