Hydro Energy Entrepreneur Wayne Krouse (Part 1)

Wayne F. Krouse is the chairman, chief executive officer, and founder of Hydro Green Energy. He founded the company in 2002 after a short but distinguished career with Nalco/Exxon Energy Chemicals. He was the Research & Development chairperson of the National Hydropower Association in 2007. SM: Wayne, where do you come from? WK: I am

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Deal Radar 2008: ImageSpan

The world of copyrights and content licensing is a mess on the web. Plagiarism runs amok. People tend to be very cavalier about stealing content. In this installment of the Deal Radar, we will look at a company that attempts to put some structure around the evidently unmanageable content licensing and monetization issue.

Bringing On WebEx 2.0: DimDim CEO DD Ganguly (Part 7)

SM: What have you learned through your two ventures, especially DimDim, which is an especially ambitious project? DD: Learning throughout AIM was very steep. I realized on my second or third day that I did not know anything about business at all.

Deal Radar 2008: Turbine

Turbine is the largest privately held gaming studio in North America. They have created several popular and massively multiplayer game worlds on the Internet such as The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar, Asheron’s Call, and Dungeons and Dragons: Stormreach. The company has a top-of-the-line technology platform and innovative graphics and has created an active niche in the

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Bringing On WebEx 2.0: DimDim CEO DD Ganguly (Part 6)

SM: What is your strategy going forward? I understand your open source go-to-market strategy, which is a viral spread. What is your hypothesis on where DimDim Pro and Enterprise are going to gain traction? DD: All sales that have happened to date have been inbound inside sales.

Being Gay: Another Media Hook

By Richard Laermer,  Guest Author According to Clay (“Don’t Touch Me!”) Aiken, it is a big gay world out there. And that’s what the press wants you to believe. From my viewpoint, as a fuchsia card-carrying gay alpha male, every few years there’s a boondoggle in gay stories in America: the Supreme Court said OK

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Trusting Untrusted Computers (Part 3)

By Taher Elgamal, Guest Author I continue my discussion of how to trust essentially untrustworthy networks, software, and hardware by addressing what works and what sells in the information security industry. In last week’s post, I outlined strategies we can implement to build customer trust in networked systems. Here I begin to look at the problem from an

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Bringing On WebEx 2.0: DimDim CEO DD Ganguly (Part 5)

SM: Because your are so open, all of your customers and potential customers can know about not only the benefits but also potential drawbacks to your software. What has been the impact of your open policies? DD: If you look at a traditional software company, the customers are at the top of the funnel and

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