Where Would The Jobs Come From?

Against the backdrop of the financial crisis, with a bailout package that is as large as the cost of the Iraq war, economic policy emerges as the most important campaign issue for this election. The new American president will need to be extremely careful to not choke up the entrepreneurship engine with a tax policy

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Conserving Cash: Veodia CEO Guillaume Cohen (Part 2)

SM: How big did Envivio become, and what was your evolution with them? GC: I stayed with them for five years. They now have 120 employees; when I joined there were 15. At some point they were involved in too many markets and they had to focus.

Deal Radar 2008: Challenge Games

Challenge Games creates short, online games for both serious and casual gamers that are exciting and easy to play. These games are browser-based and can be played from any computer. Most of the games are multiplayer, and take only 3-10 minutes per game. They provide instant entertainment, unlike other popular games such as World of

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Silver Lining In The Financial Crisis

Amidst the financial crisis, some 40,000 of New York’s 185,700 Wall Street jobs could be lost. The bailout is not exactly offering a great deal of confidence to the financial markets. We are all losing a lot of money. Fear runs through the system like a chilling shiver in the middle of the night. In

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Conserving Cash: Veodia CEO Guillaume Cohen (Part 1)

Guillaume Cohen is the founder and CEO of Veodia, an SaaS streaming video service. Before founding Veodia, Guillaume was head of enterprise business at Envivio. He led the founding of the Enterprise Work Group at the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) and is a regular speaker at conferences. Here he shares his entrepreneurial journey with

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Deal Radar 2008: Elastra

Back in January, I wrote a Trend Radar piece called SaaS Impact on IT Infrastructure and predicted that the adoption of SaaS in the enterprise will give rise to a series of innovations to help manage the operational complexities surrounding the phenomenon. In this column, we look at Elastra, one such infrastructure provider.

Hydro Energy Entrepreneur Wayne Krouse (Part 6)

SM: Outside of the US hydropower is viewed in a positive light. Here it has a stigma. Why is this? WK: I think there have been a number of large lawsuits brought by the environmental community over the years that the government has lost. They have dealt with the health of the ecosystem, and the Endangered

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Forbes Column 08: My Adventure With Amazon

I also wrote my story with Amazon for Forbes this week. As I wrote it, I was thinking whom I know in the technology industry who would be able to leverage this sort of a relationship with Amazon. Here are some ideas: Nicholas Carr, Judy Estrin, Om Malik, all of whom have written books before.

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