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Naren Bakshi is the guest speaker this month at RANA’s Entrepreneur Forum. Naren ji, is a successful business executive, angel investor to start ups, serves on the boards of several Bay Area companies. Naren ji’s career has spanned companies as diverse as Ameritrust Bank, TRW, and Versata.

Naren Bakshi is a founder of Versata and served as President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors until 1998. Currently, he serves on several Boards including Versata, Xpede, and Hume Center. He is or has been senior advisor to the CEO and Board for Xoriant, Magnifi, and 123Signup. Naren ji is a founding charter member of TiE and the current President of India Community Center, Milpitas.

We look forward to meeting most of the emerging RANA entrepreneur community at this meeting. To guarantee yourself a seat for the next month’s forum, be sure to register/RSVP online at our Web site. This also gives us an idea of the number of attendees to expect.

A review of June meeting:

Bipin Shah presented 10 success factors for professionals and entrepreneur. His list emphasized a value-based belief system including credibility, honesty, integrity, fairness, equality, and dedication. He also described career planning as an exercise in building a house that consists not only of many formal living rooms, but includes a basement, a garage, and a kitchen. That is to say, broaden your perspective so that you understand different aspects of a business, even if that comes at short term costs such as lost raises and increased learning requirements.