Following up on my last Forbes column highlighting the brain drain from technology to finance, let me ask the readers an important question: Should Entrepreneurship 101 be compulsory for all science and engineering students in college, and early on, to be completed by the end of the freshman year? I believe students should be exposed [...]
McAfee doesn’t seem to be terribly bothered by the recession. The Security software category should be relatively recession proof, and McAfee will continue to benefit from that. Also, the company has a good track-record of M&A, and in this market, with valuations compressed, they can pick up whatever is missing in their portfolio at attractive [...]
Online tech help is plentiful, but solving a problem or getting a direct answer to a question can be cumbersome: describing what is going wrong with your computer or application is not always easy and frequently involves a long chain of emails or chats among users who can’t see one another’s screens. The desktop sharing [...]
SM: Let me change the course of the conversation a bit. I would like to understand the genesis of this company. How did it start and what did it take to get to this point? EM: It was started in 2002. There was some nucleus of intellectual property that was purchased from a previous company. [...]
Thomas Friedman has a good article in the NYTimes on how stimulus money ought to be spent. He suggests, instead of giving $20 billion to the whining General Motors, give it to 20 top VCs, and encourage them to take big risks. Read Start-Up the Risk Takers. He also acknowledges that the stimulus vis-a-vis renewable [...]
By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. As regular blog readers, how would you like to see the user interface and experience of SramanaMitra.com redesigned? How would you want to interact with it? What would you add? What would you take away? We’ll be [...]
SM: How many employees do you have? EM: We have about 140.
By Guest Author Tony Scott One of the most frustrating things I’ve seen over the years in recruiting for early-stage companies is the inability of founders to articulate what makes their company special and why anyone should want to work with them. This is a common failing among founders, particularly those from technical backgrounds. If you’ve [...]
