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Rajesh Jain has an interesting series on his entrepreneurial journey on his blog. He talks about the successes and failures in his 15-year entrepreneurial career. Interestingly, he has had only one run-away success so far - IndiaWorld, a network of portals like Samachar.com and Khoj.com - which he sold to Sify Ltd for close to Rs 500 crore in 2000. That's more than 100 times his revenues ($1 million), a valuation he got during the dotcom heydays.

Before he managed to build IndiaWorld, he has had several failures as he tried several things such as image processing software. Post-IndiaWorld, Jain admits that has not been able to build any scalable business or a huge organisation. He acted as a venture capitlist for sometime investing in certain businesses (read Rajesh Jain's Ecosystem) like Rajshri Media (broadband entertainment portal) SEraja (an event search engine), PubSub.com (it later shut down) and so on. He is currently focused on building cetrtain businesses in the mobile area.

Read more here on Emergic.org.

You are running a startup or you intend to become an entrepreneur? Read this presentation, it will go a long way in helping you towards achieveing your objective. I read it and I liked it. It's written by David Spitz, a serial entrepreneur, and one who has headed several VC-backed companies.

[Via Southeast VC]

Infosys Chief Mentor N R Narayana Murthy is joining the board of trustees of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), the world's largest network of entrepreneurs and professionals of Indian origin. TiE has 45 chapters in nine countries and a membership base of over 12,000. [Via The Economic Times]

The current Board of Trustees here.

Here is a message from S Subramonia Sarma, Director, Entrepreneurship Development, Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Indian School of Business, in Hyderabad. If you are an entrepreneur, you could be interested in attending this event.

The TiE