Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 4)

SM: Did anybody else mirror your concept of what was essentially an Internet datacenter? JVB: Nobody had this concept. This was in 1995, at the exact same time the dot-com companies started to emerge. Hotmail, map companies, and other started to take bud. We started to become the de facto standard for hosting those companies.

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Oct 21: Web 3.0 Product Strategy Roundtable With RWW On DimDim

Calling all entrepreneurs! On Tuesday, October 21 at 11am PT/2pm ET, I will host a Web 3.0 product strategy roundtable online in collaboration with ReadWriteWeb, using Dimdim, the free, open source web conferencing platform. During the 60-minute session, entrepreneurs are invited to pitch me their product ideas in a 3-minute presentation. I will review the

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Deal Radar 2008: Fotolia

Today’s Deal Radar company is New York-based Fotolia, a microstock photography site. The site offers quality images at low prices and is stiff competition for traditional stock photography sites such as Getty and Corbis as well as microstock photography sites such as iStockphoto and SnapVillage.

Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 3)

SM: When you were exploring starting your own company, what resources did you have to draw upon? JVB: Obviously both of us were not known except to our personal networks. I had been in the Valley for 12 years so I had a good network. I was also the chairman of the Interrupt Engineers Conference.

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More Interviews

Here are a couple of more interviews I did recently, one at Schwartz and another at Invincibelle where I have discussed the motivations behind the book series.

Deal Radar 2008: GameDuell

GameDuell was launched in 2003 and offers skill games to be played against real opponents for real money. The site has around 20 popular games like Solitaire, Roll 5, Freecell and Roll 5.

Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 2)

SM: What did you find when you arrived in Silicon Valley? BVJ: Back in those days it was still the very early evolution of the technology. Everything was about building big systems; supercomputers, super mini-computers, mainframes, and big computers. There was no concept of desktop computing.

Interview At LifeBeyondCode

Here’s an interview at Lifebeyondcode: “What I want people to learn is that entrepreneurship – successful entrepreneurship – is a very achievable goal. Not something to be scared of. Not something to put off until next year, and then next year, and then next life.”