Smaller Faster Cheaper – (Part 1)

By Lance Glasser, Guest Author Craig Barrett used Smaller-Faster-Cheaper as a mantra at Intel for many years. This is truer today in the semiconductor business than it was even 10 years ago because the preponderance of the customers of the semiconductor industry has shifted from government, as it was in the early days, to industry

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Designs That Move: Louis Kahn’s Dhaka Assembly

Louis Kahn preferred simple materials – brick and concrete – but worked with them with astonishingly facility, creating spaces that are both highly functional and spiritually uplifting. For Kahn, architecture became the search for truth and buildings were living things. The Bangladesh project is a wonderful story in and of itself – a Jewish architect

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TheFind: LifeStyle Shopping (Part 5)

[Part 4] TheFind launched relatively recently, and has gained very good traction already. They are also generating some ad revenues at a $5-$10 CPM range via a partnership with Glam Media. Let’s hear more details from Siva. SM: What stage are you at now? SK: Our site has been open to consumers for the last

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Newspapers: Industry in Turmoil

Alan Murray writes in the Wall Street Journal: “Last weekend’s “Billionaires Bid for Tribune” headlines were enough to warm the hearts of us Dickensian scribes who still seek to make a living from impressions on wood pulp. Savvy Chicagoan Sam Zell sold much of his U.S. real-estate empire at the top of the market; could

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TheFind: LifeStyle Shopping (Part 4)

[Part 3] One of the questions I often explore with serial entrepreneurs, is how do they identify the next open problem to work on. In this segment, Siva explains his thought process on how he Found the Find. SM: Under what circumstances did the company get started? SK: The company was started in 2004 while

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Tumbleweed’s Turnaround Strategy

I recently interviewed Taher Elgamal, famous cryptographer, and currently the CTO of Tumbleweed, a $60 Million email security company. I asked him where he sees the opportunity for Tumbleweed to play in the Security space, which is hopelessly crowded. Taher said: “The industry essentially was split into different sectors. Some became part of the network

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India’s Fuel Basket For Power

By Satish Dey, Guest Author Starting from where I had off left in my last post, India is gearing to use a basket of fuels for meeting its burgeoning power needs. It aims at generating 65.6% (84,400 MW) Thermal, 26.6% (33,942 MW) Hydro, 3% (3,900 MW) Nuclear and 4.8% (6,191 MW) Renewable power by 2012.

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Beyond Bangalore

India’s development needs to spread well beyond Bangalore at this point, as is evident from data and arguments presented in a series of previous pieces such as Team of Twenty One, India’s Scale Concerns: Real Estate, India’s Real Estate Concerns, and India’s Real Estate Concerns Point to Second Tier Cities. Meanwhile, billions of dollars get

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