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Anything that saves time is perceived as good. Anything that wastes time is perceived as not good. The efficiency of any supply chain and its traverse time are inextricably tied together. The longer the chain, with all other things being equal, the longer it will take to get from one end to the other.
Any action that can speed up any portion of the supply chain will increase the efficiency of the entire chain if subsequent links are prepared for the accelerated previous link. So, when a supply chain is being controlled by only one person, the person can move from beginning to end with a minimum of unwanted delays. When the supply chain control is extended beyond a single person, unknown variables are then factored into the efficiency equation and can be represented as “risks.”
Every supply chain can be segmented into discrete tasks and authorities. The resolution of those tasks can be further defined by the specialty skills required to perform them. A distributor has a unique set of tasks relating to distribution inventory management and order fulfillment. A freight forwarder also deals with inventory movement and order fulfillment, but with a unique set of delineated skills requiring specialty knowledge.
Let me start somewhere closer to the beginning of the chain and try to gain some efficiency. In an electronics manufacturing environment with an in-house R&D, purchasing first kicks in when a design requirement has created a demand for parts. The unreleased primitive bill of materials is located in an engineering parts database. Usually, the parts list has been derived from a schematic that has been created by, or loaded into, a CAD system where each discrete component has been assigned a reference designator (C1, C2, R1, R2, U13, U14, etc.), indicating where the part is mounted on the printed circuit board.
At a minimum, in order for purchasing to buy the correct part, the manufacturer's name, part number, quantity used in the bill of materials (BOM), and perhaps a company internal part number is required. This basic information lends itself very neatly into spreadsheet column headings. In fact, almost all parts management software will export the various database fields and records into an Excel (XLS or XLSX), or CSV (comma delineated file) format.
Once the parts list is exported into the spreadsheet, additional work is required to prepare for the purchasing RFQ so that a supplier can use the spreadsheet to complete the important missing information concerning cost and availability. This is where the use of a MACRO can save the person responsible for creating and processing an RFQ hours of effort.
Macros provide the convenience of allowing you to automate many repetitive tasks that you already do each day, or even to do things you can't normally do in Excel (in a reasonable amount of time). Even better, once a macro is created, you can summon its convenience with the quick click of a button or a few keystrokes. So, let's step through creating a macro for an RFQ.
Everyone is familiar with pushing the record button on a voice recorder, speaking, and pausing or stopping the record operation. Playback is a matter of pushing the play button and listening. Creating a macro is just as simple. The difference is that instead of recording a voice signal, the macro records computer key strokes and mouse actions step-by-step.
So, to prepare an RFQ formatted spreadsheet from a raw database import, just do what you normally do, but be sure to use the macro record function before you begin formatting.
Now, column width, cell formatting, font selection, formulas, headers and footers, row and column deletions and insertions — which may require hundreds of mouse clicks — resizing efforts, and formula insertions are captured and can be replayed or re-performed in a single “Run macro” command.
Name your macro such that it indicates what type of spreadsheet you are creating. You might want to just call this one “RFQ,” so the next time you import from your database with the intention of preparing an RFQ, you just have to perform the export to xls file from the database and then open your Excel to import the raw file. Once the raw file is on your spreadsheet, run the macro and sit back and watch your macro create a picture perfect RFQ, which is ready to send to a supplier just seconds later.
Bills of material and parts lists vary in length, so when you are selecting a range for a spreadsheet activity, be sure to consider adding extra blank rows and columns in the formatting macro. When you import those extra-long lists, the macro will think it is dealing with blank cells, but in reality, you will have populated them with the extra data. If you forget to do this on your initial macro, Excel gives you the option to step through the macro one step at a time, and when you get to row selection, just increase the number of rows and run your macro again.
Over the course of a year, you will save hundreds of hours of repetitive effort when you use a macro. Experiment with other standard spreadsheets like kit picking or cycle counting forms that you now have to format one at a time. You'll be glad you did. When you're done, reward yourself with a cookie. May I suggest a coconut macaroon?
Rich,
True.
It would however,be very unlikely that a SMB sized firm would spend Time and Resources for this initiative;unless they were either forced [By Competitive Circumstances] or encouraged by Government Subsidies/Taxbreaks.
Improvement is all Well and Good but too many Firms are just struggling to stay above Water today ,primarily because Economic Confidence has fallen of a cliff to suggest that they can find Scarce Resources for this initiative is easier said than Done .
Regards
Ashish.
Improvement is all Well and Good but too many Firms are just struggling to stay above Water today ,primarily because Economic Confidence has fallen
@Ashish, no doubt economic confidence has fallen buts the economy is recovering fast. Look at UK, it has declared that it is out of double dip recession. We can expect economic confidence going up in other countries too.
Anand,
I Honestly hope you are right.
But a part of me feels like this is the Lull before the Storm with the coming Fiscal Cliff in 2013,2013 is gonna look very-very different from 2012.
Already most of Asia(including China,India) are experiencing a massive-massive slowdown caused by Inflation or by vanishing of Demand.
If Asia loses steam I don't think rest of the Globe will be able to manage things.
Regards
Ashish.
Already most of Asia(including China,India) are experiencing a massive-massive slowdown caused by Inflation or by vanishing of Demand.
@Ashish, I agree with you on this. Its strange that developing nations like China and India which were supposed to grow much faster are showing weakness. Inflation and Vanishing of Demand are some geninue reasons but I think one more thing common between these two countries is ramptant corruption. I think corruption is taking serious toll on the growth of these two nations.
Macros provide the convenience of allowing you to automate many repetitive tasks that you already do each day, or even to do things you can't normally do in Excel (in a reasonable amount of time).
@Douglas, I totally agree with you. I am big fan of Macros. I always use Macros in Excel/Nedit and the improvement in work efficiency is tremendous. Infact it wouldn't be bad idea to use coding programmes like VBA along with excel because this gives even more flexibility compared to MACROS.
Anand,
Quite true. I don't dispute the fact that India and China are waaay more Corrupt than America or the leading Countries in Europe;but I feel it has more to do with the lack of effective Governance systems in place.
I mean,you could Legislate from the Top that I want people to do this and that and that…But if the Enforcement mechanism is weak not much we can do.
Can we?
I also feel its unfair to compare India(which is vibrant Multi-Party Democracy) and China(which is a One-party State where if you challenge the existing status Quo you get knocked off…)
Regards
Ashish.
@Rich, Macros are exportable and importable, so one person, (Purchasing Manager) could gift the macro file to Junior and Senior Buyers. The training to use just couldn't be simpler. “Run Macro.”
Rich,
Yeah The Government is just like the Captain of the Titanic today.
Inspite of the fact that we are sinking,They keep saying everying is A-ok!!!
Don't worry a bit!!
“Immigrant Founders – The REST of the Story”
Eighty percent, or 40 out of 50, of the country's Top 50 Venture-Funded companies had one or more American born founders. No, I didn't make up the statistic, I found the data and reversed the spin that the pro-immigration faction is trying to promote.
Curiously, the NFAP document, “Immigrant Founders and Key Personnel in Americas Top Venture Funded Companies”, has a table with the names and birthplace of the foreign-born founders. However, after finding another source for the “Top 50” data, I found that NFAP removed the names of the U.S. born founders and eliminated the companies that did not have a foreign-born founder.
Considering both tables – the one in the NFAP document and the one provided by the WSJ (in the sources below) – I have found the following:
23 of the 50 companies selected did have one or more foreign-born (co)founders; however, 13 of those 23 companies also had one or more American born cofounders. Only 10 of the Top 50 companies did not have an American born cofounder.
Companies “Without a Foreign Born Founder” have employment levels 26% higher than the Top 50 average employment levels.
Companies “Without a American Born Founder” have employment levels 25% lower than the Top 50 average employment levels.
The benefit of employment growth in foreign born cofounded companies is muted by a substantially higher application rate for temporary foreign workers and below average employment levels. Companies with foreign born (co)founders (23 of 50) are almost twice as likely to apply for H-1B temporary guestworker visas.
Most of the Top 50 companies (36) are located in California, which has 34.9% population of foreign-born employed in the labor force, so the 31.9% foreign-born (co)founders basically represents the population — the data shows nothing statistically remarkable about foreign-born founders.
Source Data:
National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP)
“Immigrant Founders and Key Personnel In America's Top Venture-Funded Companies”
Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Venture-Funded Companies WSJ.com
(This source provided founder data omitted from tables presented by NFAP publication)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704132204576190644237905576.html
Foreign Born Employed in the Labor Force:
Employed Civilian Foreign-Born Labor Force by State: 2007
Appendix Table A.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/acs-09.pdf
Foreign Labor Certification – H-1B Program Data: http://flcdatacenter.com/CaseH1B.aspx
Good information. Do you think the companies with foreign-born founders would still have been launched without the foreign-born entrepreneurs? The point is that foreigners are interested in founding companies here, and that we lose talent, and jobs, if they take their talents and found companies elsewhere. Even if those startups don't hire as many Americans (which your data seem to suggest), they do create some American jobs. Also, if even one of them grows to become the next Google or anything even close, it's a huge gain in jobs and innovation.
@Tam Harbert,
With the cost of labour in the U.S. do you think that foreign-born founders are still willing to create their companies in the country when they can make more profit in low labour cost areas such as the countries in the asian region?
When I lived in the US about 25 years ago most electronics high tech companies were predominantly fuelled by US born workers. There was significantly fewer Asian, Indian or Latin American employees in leadership roles. Nowadays the picture is much more varied. As such there are many highly trained non-USA workers and it is only to be expected that a higher number of them will want to leave the USA at some point, for instance to return to their homeland. Also the world is a lot smaller these days and work practices more flexible.
Education and knowledge is the key. This is quite known and most think tank and parents are aware of this. But America is doing very little in education, early chilhood to school and university. Amerca has to do lots of work in this direction. Obama has dream for this, but unable do much. Along with education at home, immigrants do help keep America leader in technology.
In today's Internet driven work environment, A skilled professional need not leave his home country to work for a US company. He can contribute to the innovation projects of US companies sitting right at home in his home country.
So the immigration laws are soon going to loose their sheen as the talented people no more need to beg for Visas or Green cards to be able to work for US companies.
US companies are opening their R & D centers in developing countries where abundant talent and skilled workforce is available and many of these companies have work from culture
Dear Pertubed, I think you just made an excellent case for how data can be used to make two opposing arguments!
Prabhakar, What can I add? You made the case simply and succintly. Several decades from now many would review current events and wonder why our generation made so much hoopla about a lot of things. One of these is likely to be all of the gatekeeping we are doing in immigration, employment and work patterns.
Tam, What do you make of Vivek Wadhwa's decision to return (and stay) in the United States despite the points he asserts in his book?
@ Hospice
I don't think that labor is necessarily the issue here. At the startup phase, we're looking at a group of talented people finding funding and starting a business. Sure, they might outsource some of the design and – if they are making a hardware product – all of the manufacturing. But if they company grows, they will still expand the number of U.S. employees for finance, marketing, etc.
@ Bolaji
Vivek made that decision and founded those companies many years ago, in the 1990s I think. One of the points he makes in the book is that it was easier back then, and that companies were able to sponsor more immigrants and reward them for their good work. Post 9/11 and with the bad economy, much of the U.S. public is against this kind of immigration these days.
@Tam,
“But if the company grows, they will still expand the number of U.S. employees for finance, marketing, “
I see! It seems that most congress members don't really understand that the country is falling behind in innovation because of their adversarial policies towards immigrant entrepeneurs.
Tam? You don't know anything about Vivek Wadhwa's fake entrepreneurship? Don't worry, neither does anyone else.
Wadhwa is not an entrepreneur! He is not an academic either. He only became a professor at Duke after NASSCOM, the cartel of Indian H1B body shops, made a significant “donation” to Duke University to conduct some shill science for the benefit of the outsourcers in India.
Do you have any evidence of this? Can you back up this statement? If so, send me the source of the information. I believe it can be verified that Wadhwa has launched a couple of software companies, at least one of which was VC-backed That makes him a former entrepreneur. And he has appointments at multiple universities.
I feel they are loosing it since everyday you see the skilled migrants for Technology is rising. Every company in the US you see expats working in the technological section. That clearly is a proof to show US is loosing the battle sadly.
@ Rich : 🙂 … I think thats because most of us are used for advanced programming tools rather than worrying about macros anymore 🙂
The “Offshoring Research Network,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshoring_Research_Network#Research_partners at Duke University is being sponsored by the planet's most notorious offshoring organizations, led by NASSCOM, the organization of Indian H1B body shops. Also included is Wipro, the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, and other organizations that strip US jobs and send them to India. Soon after the “Offshoring Research Network” was created at Duke University, Vivek Wadhwa was annointed to the position of “professor” in which Wadhwa does not have to show up for work, and without any justification other than his being an entrepreneur of some mysterious unidentified companies.
Again, you wrote this story without the knowledge of where Wadhwa was an “entrepreneur?” Don't feel bad. Other members of the corporate media have done the same, some calling Wadhwa, “entrepreneur turned scholar.”
Wadwha is a flim-flam man, with absolutely NO credentials. He is a snake oil salesman, and the corporate media is just using his fake science to feed the corporate narrative being used to replace highly skilled, well educated US STEM workers with cheap, entry level, submissive third world workers, primarily from India and Communist China.
I believe BO has been “trying” to have a immigration reform. The US should have a more flexible process. The problem now is that right after graduation, students need to get a job, and maybe lose their entrepeneurship – simply because a job might mean a H1B and afterwards, it might mean a Residency and Green Card.
Canada has a system in which immigrant students, after finishing, can opt for residency – independently of having a job. This gives people more flexibility to create, design, innovate.
Readers: We appreciate your continued readership and commentary on EBN. We hope to enlighten our readers through informed opinion and respectful discussion. We'd also like to avoid personal attacks on our contributors, editors and sources. The information presented regarding Wadwah's book is part research and part opinion, and his credentials are a matter of record. Let's have a discussion on the companies he founded and the objections that readers raise. It's an important part of putting the book in context, and let's examine the facts.
For example, India is not the the only source of H1B visa applicants; can we talk about other regions, corporations and some of the issues? How can some of the loopholes be avoided, and are there active bills in Congress that address these issues?
If you would like to have a more enlightened coversation, the first step would be for the authors of your articles to be more familiar with the facts.
Vivek Wadhwa is a shill, a shill for the Indian H1B body shops that are offshoring jobs to India. His credentials are so superficial that any competent journalist could expose his fraud with just the slightest amount of research.
Wadhwa claims to be an entrepreneur. My first question is “Where was Vivek Wadhwa an entrpreneur?” For what company was Vivek Wadhwa an entrepreneur? Those two questions are fair questions. The author of this story and the other corporate propaganda should have already asked those questions and provided the readers with the answers.
Now lets address the editorial claim that India is not the only source of workers using H-1B visas. India is the source of somewhere between one half and two thirds of the total number of H-1B visas. India is the only sourse of Indian H1B body shops, like Tata, like Infosys, like Cognizant, like Satyam, like HCL, like IBM India, etc. The list goes on and on.
Again recipients of H1B visas are not “highly skilled” workers. They are REPLACEMENT workers. In fact 94% of the H1B visa recipients are not even “Fully Competent” according to the GAO. In 2011, the GAO concluded that a mere 6% of the recipients of the H-1B visas are “Fully Competent.” The GAO also found that a staggering 54% of the recipients of the H-1B visas are “Entry Level” workers. And disenfranchised US STEM workers were required to train their replacements in order to receive their severence package.
This corporate propaganda completely ignored these facts, because the author is totally unqualified to author a report on this issue. She is merely reciting corporate propaganda.
@twinsfan: I can't speak for Wadwha's credentials, but I can speak for the author's. Tam Harbert is one of the most experienced journalists I know in the high-tech business and has been acknowledged as such from organizations such as the Jesse H. Neal Awards. See http://tamharbert.com/.
As for your points about Whadwa, I will personally do some more digging so I can intelligently respond.
EBN has done its diligence on H1B: please see http://www.ebnonline.com/author.asp?section_id=1071&doc_id=241508. We acknowledge its flaws. But can we really blame the people that apply for these jobs when US corporations take advantage of H1-B and tax loopholes that keep revenue offshore?
“let's examine the facts”
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in the Indus region.
Wadhwa is a chapter founder of a TiE group in his locality, he has a background in offshoring to India, and he clearly is interested in growth and entrepreneurship between India and the US. The leaders of TiE are “who's who” of India's executive class.
I'm not criticizing his participation in this business group. I am however criticizing his ability to produce quality research free from outside influence.
Regarding the companies he founded, an infamous Vivek Wadhwa quote will give the reader a glimpse into Wadhwa's motivations. In a CIO article by Stephanie Overby entitled, “The Next Wave of Globalization: Offshoring R&D to India and China” dated Wednesday, October 31st, 2007, Wadhwa is quoted as saying, “I was one of the first [CEOs] to outsource software development to Russia in the early '90s. I was one of the first [CEOs] to use H-1B visas to bring workers to the U.S.A.,” Wadhwa says. “Why did I do that? Because it was cheaper.” Wadhwa knows what occurs, he complains about flawed immigration policy, yet he is a champion of a visa program that is a key part of the problem and that REQUIRES most of them go go home. Whadwa represents corporate interests, and more precisely the interests of Indian corporations and the offshoring model.
The fact that he is (said to be) the Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University is an affront to anyone who really cares about the sanctity of research. A director of research in academia should be a true researcher, not someone with a corporate agenda.
Thanks, Pundit. Now we are getting somewhere. Facts are often inconvenient, but should not be ignored.
Tam may be a very nice person. But the corporate media, including Tam, has become shills to the fraud similar to that being spread by Vivek Wadhwa.
Vivek Wadhwa is a shill, conducting studies with predetermined conclusions to the benefit of his sponsors, who are the executives of the largest Indian H-1B body shops in the world, companies that are stealing our jobs and taking those jobs back to India.
And the corporate media, including Tam, report the story like it is real news instead of the corporate propaganda that it really is. There is no objectivity coming out of this story. Objectivity requires work. This story is not journalism. This is stenograpy.
It is not a matter of nice or not nice–it is a matter of experience, credentials and facts. Regardless of whether we agree or disagree with the premise of the book, the article, or the author, we are professionals here. It is clear that you question Wadwha's intent and credibility. Those are valid points and add some perspective to the discussion and the information Wadwha presents. Readers can draw their own conclusions from the information. We just ask that readers treat contributors and commentors with respect, and that works both ways. I don't think name calling advances the discussion.
I wish that being a victim of name calling would be the extent of suffering caused by the false stories being spread by the likes of Vivek Wadhwa and the media that spreads his fraud and his propaganda.
Unfortunately, the suffering extends way beyond being the victim of name calling. The suffering extends to where hundreds of thousands of US STEM workers have been forced out of their careers by cheap entry level workers immigrating from third world countries. US STEM workers who have had to abandon their careers are losing their homes and their families.
As I reported earlier, the government and the politicians know that these recipients of the H-1B visa are NOT highly skilled. They know that 94% of the recipients of H-1B visas are not even fully competent. They know that US STEM workers are forced to train their replacements as a condition of receiving a severance package.
Clearly corporate America is training the recipients of the H-1B visa, instead of training the 50% of recent college grads who still have not found full time employment. Clearly corporate America is training recipients of H-1B visas instead of updating the skills of experienced workers with twenty years of experience.
Why is this happening? It is happening because the media of today is totally consumed with passing along the corporate propaganda instead of doing real journalism. Thank your lucky stars that your reporters are merely the victim of name calling instead of being the victim of the propaganda that your reporters are spewing.
I had no idea there was a “battle for tech talent”.
I guess Vivek is doing the patriotic thing and stepping forward to try to help American companies that cannot find technical people to hire.
NOT REALLY.
Sarcasm aside, the reality is that there are many American engineers willing and able to do the work that American companies need. The problem is that American companies prefer to hire cheap labor from India.
Presenting the issue as one of scarcity of technical talent is naive at best and dishonest at worst.
Someone needs to send all these comments to the President Obama.
Nation of immigrants, YES. Not fighting the Govenment of CHINA who is trying to take over the worlds manufacturing. My guest is that CHINA's exports are down. Other counties are fighting the manufacturing War and trying to get there fair share of manufacturing back to there country. If CHINA exports are down then the battles are a sucess.
At the risk of whipping up this frenzy all over again, I would just like to point out that Wadhwa won an “Outstanding America by Choice” award earlier this year from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.
From the list of recipients on the USCIS website (http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=651214f929685310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=34165c2af1f9e010VgnVCM1000000ecd190aRCRD):
2012 Outstanding American by Choice Recipients
Vivek Wadhwa
Academic, Researcher, Writer, and Entrepreneur
Menlo Park, California
Mr. Vivek Wadhwa is Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University; Fellow, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University; Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and distinguished visiting scholar, Halle Institute of Global Learning, Emory University.
Mr. Wadhwa oversees the academic programs at Singularity University, which educates a select group of leaders about the exponentially growing technologies that are soon going to change our world. In his roles at Stanford, Duke, and Emory universities, Mr. Wadhwa lectures in class on subjects such as entrepreneurship and public policy, helps prepare students for the real world, and leads groundbreaking research projects. He is an advisor to several governments; mentors entrepreneurs; and is a regular columnist for The Washington Post, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and the American Society of Engineering Education's Prism magazine. Prior to joining academia in 2005, Wadhwa founded two software companies.
Mr. Wadhwa holds an MBA from New York University and a B.A. in Computing Studies from the University of Canberra, in Australia. He is founding president of the Carolinas chapter of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TIE), a non-profit global network intended to foster entrepreneurship.
Mr. Wadhwa became a naturalized citizen in 1989.
At the risk of whipping up this frenzy all over again, I would just like to point out that Wadhwa won an “Outstanding America by Choice” award earlier this year from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.
Tam, you are not doing anything to dispell the observation of your being a shill.
Perhaps you did not understand the question the first three times that it was asked. Where was Vivek Wadhwa an entrepreneur? I read your lengthy shill piece. Plus I read Wadhwa.s bio. Between all of that groveling and self-serving BS, you would think that there would be some space to answer the OBVIOUS question.
Let me try again for the FIFTH time. Where was Vivek Wadhwa an entrepreneur? When you answer the question, you can leave out all of the hype and the groveling.
http://www.informationweek.com/836/wadhwa.htm
Relativity Technologies Inc?
Is that one of the companies? What was the other?
twins.fan, all you're doing now is harrassing Tam, which is very unfortunate. I ask you to stop. You may disagree with her (as do I); you may disagree and dislike some of her sources (as do I). But that doesn't give you a reason to harrass. Make your point and move on. Otherwise, you only make yourself look bad.
No hell I'm not harrassing her! I want to know the name of the two companies that enables Vivek Wadhwa to call himself an entrepreneur. I don't know why it is so tough to answer that simple question. Between the two, Vivek and Tam, they have over a thousand words of blabber building his promotion, hers being shill, his being self-promotion, but getting the name of these two companies is like pulling teeth.
As far as you “asking” me to “stop,” you can KMA! I have other fish to fry which I will do either here or in other places, after I get the names. But first I want to know the name of the two companies that enable this guy to call himself an entrepreneur.
He has been conducting his phony self promotion for several years now and it is time to pony up the answer!
It is like asking Mitt Romney for his tax returns! Romney's team doesn't want to give up his tax returns and Vivek's team does not want to identify the companies that enable Vivek to call himself an entrepreneur.
I know why Romney doesn't want to give up his tax returns, and I suspect that I know why Vivek doesn't want to give up the name of his two ventures that he uses to FALSELY identify himself as an entrepreneur!
BTW, Tam, the word Indus in The Indus Entrepreneurs, is spelled Indus, not IndUS! The Indus region of the planet is in India and Pakistan.
https://www.tie.org/about-tie-global
As they put it:
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in the Indus region.
In his book excerpt, he says Seer Technology and Relativity. You can read here:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Immigrant-Exodus-Entrepreneurial-ebook/dp/B0098P9HKC/
To get to the excerpt, you have to click on the book cover. He tells his story about starting these 2 companies.
Thanks johnnyg! I waited four days for Tam to respond and identify Vivek Wadhwa's two entrepreneurial accomplishments. As you can tell, she never responded.
Fundamental to all of Wadhwa's self serving announcements are his mysterious entrepreneurial accomplishments. If they were real, we would not have to dig to find them.
Relativity, if that is the same Relativity, has a profile of a staffing company, an H-1B body shop. In LinkedIn there was about 15 members who work(ed) for Relativity, one person in the US, the remaining in either India or England. There does not appear to be any products developed by Relativity. It appears to be a staffing company. Is that the legacy of Wadhwa's Relativity? I cannot tell.
I looked at the Amazon reference and I too found Wadhwa's reference to Seer Technologies. While Wadhwa referenced Seer, he did not explicitly claim that to be one of his entrepreneurial accomplishments. He claims to have been the CTO there. I did some research on Seer Technology. There is a Seer Technology, which is a Salt Lake City company that manufactures Chemical Recognition Systems. Is that Wadhwa's Seer Technology?
Unless someone addresses my questions, I will never know.
Again, the foundation of all of Wadhwa's self serving press pronouncements are his mysterious entrepreneurial accomplishments. A little sunlight would be helpful into my buying into his high opinion of himself.
Rich: Going for advanced tools is something which we all should do. All the other simple stuff are outdated. You cannot expect things out of them to work forever.
Mr.Roques: I dont think the job market is ready to handle a load of graduates. Its the issue here. They always go for lower salaries now.