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<title><![CDATA[Prasad Thammineni]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Prasad Thammineni is a serial entrepreneur and founder of four ventures. His latest venture, OfficeDrop (http://officedrop.com), launched in August 2007 and went live with their initial offering in July 2008.
Prior to OfficeDrop, Prasad founded and grew jPeople into a well-regarded, high-end consulting firm in Boston. He was also the CTO and co-founder of Indolis.com, a B2B trading hub connecting enterprises, portals and intranets. Indolis was ranked in the top 10 business plans in the 2000 Harvard Business Plan Competition.
Prasad is a frequent presenter at events hosted by Harvard Business School, Wharton Business School, Boston University and many more.
Prasad holds and MBA from The Wharton School and is a recipient of the Joseph P. Wharton Award for Leadership and Innovation. Prasad is also a graduate of BITS, Pilani]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Valuing early stage companies]]></title>
<link>http://www.startable.com/2009/05/18/early-stage-venture-capital-valuations/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 18:06:34 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Early stage venture capital valuations May 18th, 2009 by Healy Jones Since this is my first post as a former venture capitalist I thought it might be interesting to answer a one of the more… opaque issues in venture financing. Valuation.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Publishers Nurture Rivals to Kindle]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 10:43:51 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Publishers are working with the Plastic Paper to develop their own offering that rivals Kindle. They feel that the closed nature of Kindle stops them from setting the price for their subscriptions and also limits them from advertising.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What U.S. Companies Really Pay in Taxes]]></title>
<link>http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_18/b4129049617374.htm?chan=magazine+channel_what%27s+next</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:50:37 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The result is a list of players whose tax burdens ranged widely, from essentially nothing to almost 400% of pretax income a year. Troubled industries with weakening profits had the highest tax rates: The auto sector averaged 45.5%, banks paid 50.3%, and real estate companies paid 66.1%. The least-taxed industries were semiconductors, at 19.6%, often because of high expenses in the U.S. and high overseas income. Infrastructure investments helped to keep telecoms at a low 22.2%. ]]></description>
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