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12 days. Two user groups, three conferences, two days of training/coaching for a customer, five customer site visits, one interview, several community engagements. I’m pretty sure I’m missing something there, but that’s a fairly accurate summary of my trip to India these last two weeks. Our country manager, Abhishek Kant, lined up an extremely full itinerary (because I told him to!) for my extended trip. We spent a lot of time having great conversations with customers, other organizations, community members, and each other. India’s an amazing place, and I’ll have a post about the more personal aspects of my ...

This week Telerik was awarded the “Human Resources Development” and “Community Involvement” awards by Forbes Magazine during its annual “Forbes Business Awards 2012” in Bulgaria. The two awards come only days after Telerik was once again named “Number 1 Best Employer in Bulgaria” by AonHewitt for the fifth consecutive year.

The 2013 Software Craftsmanship Motivational Wall Calendars have been out for less than a month, but have already sold to dozens of countries. Check out which countries are in the lead, both in terms of total calendars ordered, and per capita.

Tomorrow I leave for a two week “jaunt” to India. I’m extraordinarily excited because I’ve wanted to travel to India since I was a young child. I’m also excited because our India team has filled up the entire two weeks with an incredible amount of speaking engagements, customer visits, and customer training. It’s going to be an exhausting but incredibly productive trip. I’m also excited because I’ll get to spend time with Lohith and Dhanajay, two of our great evangelists in India. I’m looking forward to learning from them when we’re presenting together at a couple community events. I’ll ...

Last week was our second week at AcceleratorHK and things are starting to fall into a good cadence. On Monday, we had our first of the weekly 1:1 meetings and Paul and I worked directly with the teams on the issues that they face. We also had two amazing mentors come in: First was Salim Virani, the creator of Leancamp. He talked to us about Customer Development and took a lot of time out of his vacation time in HK to spend with the teams on how to ask the right Customer Discovery and Customer Validation questions.   Later in the week we had Mikaal Abdulla, co-founder of 8 Securities, a Hong...