A fast growing tech company from an unlikely place
This week, I gave a keynote speech at the first innovation summit sponsored by TechColumbus, a membership and funding organization for entrepreneurs in the central Ohio area. It was a great event - two keynotes (one of which I gave) and a bunch of workshops on three different tracks relevant to innovation.
One of the more interesting companies I ran across is Manta, one of the worlds’ fastest-growing Internet sites. Manta provides detailed information on literally millions of small businesses - information that (I can tell you from personal experience) is devilishly tricky to get. WIth innovative technology to keep costs down and a largely advertising supported business model, it looks to me as though the company is going to give many rivals - Dun & Bradstreet, Hoovers and others, a real run for their money. Check out the web site - it is a fascinating operation. From Westerville, Ohio - who would have thought it!
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- Posted: Saturday, May 16, 2009
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I think that this was true but isn’t today. In the past we could hire high tech workers and they could get in on a visa because of their job skills and would as you say vanish into the country. Today it is more cost effective to connect those same high tech workers into your computer systems from India and pay them 35% of what you would pay them if they came here.
I would have loved to see, and hear, your speech. I bet it was great!
