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Indian Incubator Fund: Specs (Part 1)

Posted on Sunday, Mar 4th 2007

I promised entrepreneur Sujai Karampuri that I would write a piece on what an Indian Incubator Fund should look like, in response to the discussion in my previous piece, India Needs More Incubator Funds. To begin, I will tell you a story. When I first arrived at the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT, my

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Global Warming and Phase Changes

Posted on Sunday, Mar 4th 2007

By Frank Levinson, Guest Author There are so many articles today about global warming. Its potential impact, our responses, the threat to our future and all of them fail to give us a simple statement of what is going on. Al Gore tried in his recent Oscar-winning film … now it is my turn. In

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Why No Product Companies in India?

Posted on Saturday, Mar 3rd 2007

By Sujai Karampuri, Guest Author I have already written an article called, ‘Need Product Companies In India’s Growth.’ Before I start writing on what we need to do, I would like to talk about some of the most important reasons that curtail us from spawning product companies. Some of them are obvious-history, post-independent economic policies,

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Atanu Dey-Vinod Khosla Marshall Plan – Addendum

Posted on Saturday, Mar 3rd 2007

In Atanu Dey’s RISC model, he suggests a move to a micro-city model, as follows: :: India’s economic growth depends critically on the development of its 700-million strong rural population living in 600,000 villages. The challenge is to manage their transition from a village-centric agricultural-based economy to a city-centric non-agricultural economy urgently. The total rural

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The Pro-Am debate

Posted on Friday, Mar 2nd 2007

And just as I wrote the Newspapers, Roll Up! piece, I read this one on Techmeme. Fascinating read. :: Are blogs a ‘parasitic’ medium? Commentary: Could the blogosphere survive without the reporting provided by newspapers and TV networks? Online pros tackle the question. By Robert Niles Posted: 2007-03-02 Over the past months, I’ve heard several

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Newspapers, Roll Up!

Posted on Friday, Mar 2nd 2007

There has been a lot of coverage on the dwindling fortunes of old media, especially the newspaper industry. Some of mine are Media Shuffles and Newspapers, Wake Up!. But. I am one of those people who believe that quality content will still need business models supporting it, and new media’s heavy reliance on FREE user-generated

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Oracle Acquires Hyperion

Posted on Thursday, Mar 1st 2007

Continuing his acquisition binge, Ellison acquires Hyperion (HYSL) for $3.3 Billion. This also continues the consolidation of the Enterprise Software space, which is now only left with SAP as the major other player. WSJ Coverage here. There are, however, a number of mid and small sized companies: Opentext (OTEX; Content Management; Market Cap $1.08 Billion),

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Future of CAD and PLM: Part 2

Posted on Thursday, Mar 1st 2007

In Future of CAD and PLM : Part 1, I mainly discussed the enterprise software workflow and trends around which the reshuffling of the industry will happen, and I said that Autodesk is by far the best positioned to reap the benefits of this shuffle. In this piece, I want to discuss Hardware and OS.

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