Accidental Entrepreneur: Cryptography Research President Paul Kocher (Part 6)

SM: What do your IP licensing structures look like? PK: My favorite is to go to someone who is losing a ton of money. We only get paid if we solve their problem. Customers like that because it is a no-risk proposition for them and they clearly know what their problem is.

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Accidental Entrepreneur: Cryptography Research President Paul Kocher (Part 5)

SM: You can gage a key from power consumption? PK: Yes. This is one of our biggest business areas. At the lowest level you have transistors, which are just voltage-controlled gates.

Deal Radar 2008: Revolabs

I have written extensively about eliminating unnecessary business travel and using technology such as conference calls and web conferencing to meet with colleagues in other cities or countries. LifeSize, Telenetix and Dimdim are three Deal Radar companies working to encourage the use of such collaboration technology. One of today’s covered companies, Revolabs, offers plug-and-play systems

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Deal Radar 2008: Neulio

My most recent Forbes column challenged entrepreneurs to develop technologies to enable the delivery of educational materials to all learners, even those whose only platform is an inexpensive handset. Today’s Deal Radar post looks at technology in education from another angle: in communities where the use of rich media for learning purposes has already gained

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Accidental Entrepreneur: Cryptography Research President Paul Kocher (Part 4)

SM: What kinds of people come to you, and how do they find you? PK: Hiring is our most difficult problem. If I were to pick the thing that most limits us in doing the things we want, it would be finding people who simultaneously meet our three criteria: we want people who are technically

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Designs of the Week: The Hearth

The hearth is a concept that has become lost or at best fractured as microwave ovens and Trader Joe’s frozen section have replaced cooking homemade meals in the kitchen. Some claim that as ready-made foods continue to increase in quality and decrease in price, home cooking will eventually become obsolete.

Accidental Entrepreneur: Cryptography Research President Paul Kocher (Part 3)

SM: You developed this technology as part of your consulting company’s business model? PK: This is some technology I came up with, and it was not something we were in position to monetize. Chini Krishnan used this technology as the start for Valicert. We started that company.

Design That Moves Business: An Unusual Place for Design

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy When you look for examples of successful design-driven companies, you typically come across names like Apple, P&G and General Electric. You probably haven’t heard much about Crown Stacker, a warehouse stacker company that won a BusinessWeek International

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