Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 4)

Many entrepreneurs struggle to fully understand their business environment. Here we see that HP has a very strong grasp on ERI, and how their technology impacts governments and social needs throughout the world. Discovery Channel called the PX the most significant engineering breakthrough that you will see in your lifetime.

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Indian Television Market: Opportunities

There is a wonderful article in New York Times this week, In India, The Golden Age of Television is Now. “Indian films, especially the flashy musicals and dramas of Bollywood, have grabbed plenty of attention in the West. But the country’s lesser-known television business is more than twice as big, with an estimated $3.4 billion

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The FilmLoop-Comventures Saga

Techcrunch has come out with a story accusing Comventures about unethical practices in pulling the plug on Filmloop, and forcing them to be folded into Frabrik, one of their better performing portfolio companies. Unfortunately, the villain of this story is a guy called Keyur Patel.

Serial Entrepreneur: Philippe Courtot (Part 10)

We continue the discussions about the Qualys Software-As-A-Service business model, and offer the Extended Enterprise as the new paradigm challenge for software companies to tackle. In fact, if you are a software entrepreneur looking for your next big idea, listen up carefully.

Tessera’s Roll-Up Strategy

Chances are, you have not followed this company, nor heard of it. But unsung, Tessera (TSRA) has accumulated an annual revenue of $208.7 million in 2006, with a current market cap of close to $2 Billion. Shares of Tessera, which have traded between $24.58 and $42.40 over the last year, surged to a fresh 52-week

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Netflix+Flixster = (4C + P + VS)

Recently, I wrote 4C: Yahoo’s Turnaround Formula, in which I suggested that Yahoo organizes itself by segments, and puts the 3C (Content, Community, Commerce), in Context (4th C), and layers on Personalization (P) and Vertical Search (VS) on top it. Here is a very good analysis from Read/Write Web on Flixster, where the Context =

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Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 3)

In this next segment of the interview, HP takes us through his view of the future market demand for fresh water with a particular emphasis on areas which ERI can address. We discover in dismay, that the water supply of California is likely to dry up in the next 40 years due to global warming.

Serial Entrepreneur: Philippe Courtot (Part 9)

Here Philippe discusses his current work with Qualys, where he Chairman and CEO.