Small Car Boom Spells Urban Doom

by Satish Dey, Guest Author India is basking in the sunshine of its robust economic growth and the inevitable consumerism it has spurred by way of higher spending and improved lifestyles for its citizens. A car — the ubiquitous status symbol delineating the rich from the poor — is expectedly much in demand. The nation’s

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Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 2)

To understand the impact of ERI, I spent some time asking HP about the technical details and their business / market trend impact. As we proceed in the interview, I think it is important to point out how HP has made excellent use of timing with ERI. The stars all seem to have aligned finally,

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Cisco, not Adobe acquires FiveAcross?

Cisco buys Five Across, and enters Social Networking. Much as I applauded their previous purchase, Scientific Atlanta, which, judging by the recent earnings reports, is paying off, this one seems to be a frowning moment. That said, I like the FiveAcross value proposition a great deal. I wrote this piece called Media Shuffles back in

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Need Product Companies for India’s Growth

By Sujai Karampuri, Guest Author I insist on high tech product companies for India. No matter what we do with our IT-ITES sector, we will not scale dramatically to be able to become a true economic power. The GDP of India in 2005 is $720B of which the IT-ITES sector contributes less than 3.2% (it

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Serial Entrepreneur: Philippe Courtot (Part 8)

In this next portion of the interview, Philippe discusses the Signio acquisition by Verisign.

Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 1)

Next in our serial entrepreneur series is a fascinating interview with Norwegian entrepreneur, HP Michelet, who is Executive Chairman of Energy Recovery Inc, known more commonly as ERI. As you would expect, HP is a serial entrepreneur, involved with 8 different businesses from software to cleantech to – hold your breath – a cod farm,

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6 Startup Lessons For 2007

Interesting article about hyper-segmentation at Read/Write Web: Let us take a look at the social networks available for parents; in this category alone we have Cafe Mom, Maya’s Mom, MothersClick, MommyBuzz, MTV’s ParentsConnect, Famster, and Minti. The niche for parenthood seems to be taken. Yet, it can further be broken down to, say, “Grandparents”, “Stay

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Serial Entrepreneur: Philippe Courtot (Part 7)

In this segment of the interview, Philippe discusses his success with Signio, and the process of building its online payment solution. SM: What did you learn from the elephant hunting experience? PC: I did not know Asia very much, so I did not know the difference between the Asian mentality and the western mentality. I

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