Vision India 2020: Urja

For many years, I had traveled around India and wondered how to take advantage of the tremendous craftsmanship that exists in the depths of India. Whether it is in Nagaland or Gujarat, Kashmir or Bengal, India’s heritage has been rich with artisans.

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Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 4)

SM: The day 9/11 happened I was at your office working on a consulting engagement. That seemed like the worst time in history. You did the whole Net6 story in the middle of that crazy time. MT: The more I think about it, in one sense it was. We started the company after the dot

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Since the last catching up list on April 26, you may have accumulated more backlog. What’s with the Yahoo-Microsoft frenzy? Here’s a quick cache of the articles since then that you may want to make sure you read:

Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 3)

SM: What year did you sell? MT: We sold it in 2005. Today the business is number two in revenue behind Juniper in the SSL VPN market. When we started we were probably the 30th company to enter that space. We were definitely not early to market, we were very late to the market. However,

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Forbes Column 08: Hydro-Alchemy

My new Forbes column, Hydro-Alchemy, discusses the world’s upcoming water crisis and an entrepreneurial venture, Energy Recovery Inc., that is tackling the problem with a Sea Water Reverse Osmosis technology for water desalination. You may have read my interview with Hans Peter Michelet last year. ERI has recently filed to go public.

Right Technology, Right Time: Opportunistic Ocarina CEO Murli Thirumale (Part 2)

SM: What was the idea of Net6. MT: The original premise is very straight forward. We launched during the peak of the dot com boom. Back then it was all about grabbing eyeballs, and the next class of eyeballs to be grabbed was mobile eyeballs. Most companies founded in that timeframe focused on building middleware.

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TiE’s E-Bazaar

TiEcon 2008 is coming up, and one of the programs they offer for entrepreneurs looking for funding is EBazaar.

Deal Radar 2008: Genius

Imagine you are on the web site of a company, browsing about their products, and someone from that company calls you at that very moment? That’s the technology Genius provides. It’s spooky!