Accidental Entrepreneur: Cryptography Research President Paul Kocher (Part 2)

SM: What was the business model for your new company? PK: It was clear that the consulting model was good for stability, but I like to shake things up. I started putting all the extra money we could into R&D and patents.

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Forbes Column 08: ‘Edutainment’ Needs Entrepreneurs

This week’s Zero In challenges entrepreneurs to create a scalable education methodology that standardizes and makes universally accessible content across disciplines while personalizing lessons to children’s learning needs. The column suggests that such a system need not depend on widespread access to the latest laptops or broadband technology, or even on initiatives such as Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop per

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Accidental Entrepreneur: Cryptography Research President Paul Kocher (Part 1)

Paul founded Cryptography Research, where he now serves as president and chief scientist. He has held positions at RSA Security and was a founding member of Valicert, Inc. (Tumbleweed). Among his notable accomplishments are his work on SSL 3.0, the DES Key Search machine, and discovering timing attacks and Differential Power Analysis. He holds a

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Chronic Entitlitis on Wall Street

Read this article on NYT to get a feel for the chronic entitlitis that has plagued Wall Street over the last decade. Beware, it may cause some extreme side effects, including nausea.

From Dyslexia to SugarCRM: John Roberts (Part 7)

SM: On a personal level, how has dyslexia impacted your growth and success? JR: When we got our first patent at Sugar my name was typed wrong. It was Johri. I was a bit upset about that, although they corrected it. Then I thought about it longer. If you look at it, the ri looks

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Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: A Need For Freedom

By Maureen Kelly As Sramana has written before, I have been working with her to help publicize and promote Entrepreneur Journeys for the past few months. After reading her inspiring book, I didn’t know if I should first go find a problem to create a business to solve it or buy stock in some of

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Postcard From Java

This week, we went to see Borobudur in Java. We arrived very early in the morning and found the temple almost to ourselves, except for a few other loitering visitors. Borobudur, as you may know, is the largest Buddhist monument in South East Asia and is a true symphony in stone in terms of architecture.

From Dyslexia to SugarCRM: John Roberts (Part 6)

SM: What else has come out in your genre the last four years? JR: If you look at commercial open source, which is the category we put ourselves into, there are about 20 companies . Zembra had the same model as ours and was founded at the same time. It was sold to Yahoo for

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