About Rahul Singh

Rahul's mission is a simple one: To empower individuals, non-profits, and small-businesses to leverage their goals through the power of the Internet to create a better world. Rahul is an accomplished professional in the Internet industry with over 12 years of experience developing and innovating. He's a self-taught internet entrepreneur, founder and partner at Anant Corporation. Rahul's specialties include Internet Architecture, Internet Consulting, Internet Strategy and Web Presence.
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Modern Enterprise: People, the Business Social Graph

A business produces a product or provides a service. Upon those two “outputs” is built every business on earth. Utilizing People, Processes, and Information, an entrepreneur can design a business which takes the inputs of capital, time, resources and labor (and many other factors) to provide any variety of products or services imaginable.

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Setting up a Business Structure (via the WSJ)

The leap into self-employment happens by choice for some and by accident for others. No matter how an entrepreneur gets her start, though, one of the first decisions she will have to make is how to structure her business. There are five different types of business structures that may be used. Through real-life examples, The [...]

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Modern Enterprise: The Business of Doing Business, Today

Is it easier today to start a business, create and market products and provide services to the masses than ever before? It’s a question worth asking. We at Anant believe the world of commerce is improving every day, and we’re excited to help shape the future of business (if only on a small scale). So [...]

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Where Business Is Headed (According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics)

The Street is a great resource to know what is going on in the world of business. As a small business owner or operator, you may not be directly affected by market conditions, but it is healthy to be in the know. A recent article that The Street published gives a quick synopsis of why [...]

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MyStrategicPlan: Professional Strategy Planning and Execution

There are plans, and there are strategic plans. Strategy is generally related to a big idea – the big-picture plan which covers the forest and not individual trees. Strategic decisions affect the the direction and operation of groups of people, corporations and countries. The tool which we are showcasing in this article helps organizations large [...]

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Strategy for Good 1.0

“Strategy for Good” was started by four independent non-profit development and internet strategy professionals who want to make the world a better place with the internet. They brainstormed and created a seminar series which would help non-profits, community members and students understand how to use business strategy and technology to do good for their society [...]

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Time Tracking: Freckle

In the working world, there are several ways to make money. Many of us trade our time in order to get paid. In the service industry, billable time comes at a premium price. During our billable time, we get our work done for our clients and try to keep them happy. The rest of the [...]

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IdeaEncore Network: Nonprofit Collaboration

IdeaEncore was referred to me by Gavin, who is the CTO/CIO of a “large private foundation”. (I would tell you which foundation he works for, but then I’d be violating a client privacy agreement which I signed while working for my last employer.) What intrigued me about IdeaEncore was its “Certified B Corporation” Status. As [...]

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Social Media Tips: Facebook & Twitter

Why is social media so powerful? Because, quite simply, it brings word-of-mouth marketing into the 21st century. In business, if you have a product or service, you must have a social media strategy. There are several resources to help you define what your strategy can be. These lessons can be applied to any type of [...]

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Executive Summary: The Inmates are Running the Asylum

One of the first books that my mentor Charles told me to read was The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, written by Alan Cooper (the inventor of Visual Basic). Visual Basic is one of the most popular programming languages, thanks to Microsoft and Cooper. Thanks to their work (and that of thousands of others), we [...]

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