Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 7)

SM: How did you determine that was the direction the market was going? BVJ: We made a bet on the fact that security was becoming more evident after 9/11. Based on my experience at Exodus, we also bet that bandwidth costs were going to be higher.

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The Bad News Bores (Celebratory Nature of The News)

By Richard Laermer, Guest Author I noticed it first at a Kwanzaa party late last year. Having trouble keeping myself amused, I started quizzing those holding drinks and discovered that everyone there was kind of “into” news and recent events.

Oct 21: Web 3.0 Roundtable

ReadWriteWeb Presents: Sramana Mitra’s Web 3.0 Roundtable on Oct 21 at 11am PST. If you haven’t registered, there’s still time.

In Defense Of Capitalism

The Economist this week has a good analysis on the future of capitalism. Yes, we’re amidst a crisis, and yes, things went out of control, but in building any sustainable complex system, there will always need to be rounds of debugging involved. Overall, I’m still in favor, as the Economist is as well, of Capitalism.

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Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 6)

SM: How did you plan your exit from Exodus? BVJ: Towards the end of my tenure at Exodus I started making a lot of investments in other companies. As part of the CTO duties I met with a lot of people who would come and pitch ideas. We were one of the big successes of

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Don’t Buy Stocks Too Soon

Here’s a good article that discusses why even though stocks are cheap right now, it still may be too soon to buy, as the market will probably get substantially worse, before it gets better. In general, I share this point of view. For those of my readers who have asked why I am not recommending

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Forbes Column 08: OLPC’s Last Billion

This week Zero-In focuses on Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and how it has segmented the market to focus on the last billion. Many have written about OLPC’s choices, including that to make the laptop a duel-boot system and include Windows, instead of keeping it entirely open source … blah blah blah …

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Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 5)

SM: What year of your story are we at now? JVB: 1997. That is when we saw the hyper growth.