Bringing On WebEx 2.0: DimDim CEO DD Ganguly (Part 1)

DD Ganguly is the CEO of DimDim, a company which offers free online meeting platforms. He began his career as an entrepreneur by starting Advanced Internet Management, which was bought out by CA. He then served as the VP of Product Development at CA until founding DimDim. He studied computer science at IIT, Kharagpur and

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Deal Radar 2008: Akoha

Akoha is an unusual gaming site where players must carry out missions in the real world in order to earn points. Missions may include inviting someone for coffee, giving a favorite book as a gift, or buying someone a meal, all in an attempt to share experiences with people and create a more meaningful world.

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From English Prof to Tech Startup CEO: Steve Adams of Sabrix (Part 9)

SM: I actually think managed services are a trend the market has not quite started to understand. I think SaaS is going to start evolving towards a managed service powered by SaaS infrastructure. The reason for this is domain expertise. SA: It is either industry expertise or some other form of domain expertise wrapped around

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Deal Radar 2008: Mahalo

Mahalo, which means thank you in Hawaiian, is a human-powered search engine founded by former Weblogs co-founder, Jason Calacanis. The site launched in public alpha in mid-2007 and public beta in October 2007. Mahalo focuses on handling requests that are filtered with the help of a team based in Santa Monica, California, to avoid the spam

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From English Prof to Tech Startup CEO: Steve Adams of Sabrix (Part 8)

SM: Who were your first customers? SA: They were folks like Franklin Covey, General Electric, and Hewlett-Packard. SM: You went for the real big companies first? SA: Yes. Today we have 150+ large multinationals that have purchased this.

Vision India 2020: Care

I have written a series of columns on healthcare over the last several weeks. Most of them were focused on healthcare for the rural and under-served population. This column addresses a business opportunity for the growing affluent class in India in the healthcare sector.

Trusting Untrusted Computers (Part 2)

By Taher Elgamal, Guest Author In the first article of this series I introduced the dilemma our networked world faces: how can we trust the computer software and hardware we depend on, even though these systems are untrustworthy? Let’s now think of a long-term strategy that would lead us to trust our networked environment more.

From English Prof to Tech Startup CEO: Steve Adams of Sabrix (Part 7)

SM: Let’s go back to 2002. You arrive and have this product. What was your launch strategy? SA: Timing was important. That was the nuclear winter of software. There was a general malaise in the software industry because of Y2K and then the euphoria of the Internet. A lot of companies bought a lot of

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