OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf (Part 1)

When I think OpenSource, I think about a certain well-known figure from my grad student days at MIT, who never showered, slept in his office, and believed that software should be free. Today, I bring you a different sort of OpenSource pioneer: one with a business sense! Brian Behlendorf, as you will get to know

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Stanford’s Seed Fund

While we’ve been on the topic of seed funding, Techcrunch is reporting the launch of a new seed fund at Stanford.

TI+InterDigital = 3G Consolidation?

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the previous article, I discussed what an acquisition of InterDigital can do to TI. What then will happen to the cellular industry and the 3G value chain?

Education & Technology: Now Is the Time – HotChalk CEO Edward Fields (Part 6)

SM: How do you view the current market landscape today and going forward into the future? EF: There are 3.2 million teachers teaching and many are headed out the door. Some are retiring, but almost all are fed up with increased demands and little support. 2.8 million teachers need to be recruited over the next

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Life Personality Balance: Future @ Work

By Richard Laermer, Guest Author In her book Am*Bitch*ous, Dr. Debra Condren says that career-oriented women have to fight in order to get any work-life balance. Women, she exclaimed, are constantly fighting between maintaining their personal lives and maintaining their professional ones. Women feel that there has to be a sweet spot. You can give

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TI Should Acquire Interdigital

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In my recently completed series on Texas Instruments, I pointed out that TI was not in a great position as far as 3G is concerned. I subsequently also suggested that the company ally with InterDigital to prevent further damage. Let us take this a step further and examine what it

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Education & Technology: Now Is the Time – HotChalk CEO Edward Fields (Part 5)

SM: What stage are you at now in terms of revenue, profitability and users? What metrics do you use for evaluation – traffic, unique visitors, other metrics? EF: In banker’s parlance, HotChalk is a Stage 4 Company with shipping product, revenue and sustainable growth. We will begin fundraising for global expansion in a year or

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Forbes Column 08: The Real VCs of Silicon Valley

Here’s my new column on Forbes: The Real VCs of Silicon Valley. It addresses the quest of entrepreneurs to find seed funding as the financing eco-system is going through its own set of changes. Especially for first time entrepreneurs, as we have been discussing, the battle is tougher.