From Dyslexia to SugarCRM: John Roberts (Part 2)

SM: During that timeframe, what did you think were the bright flashing lights of OpenSource? JR: It was all about hope and belief. That is why in the fall of 2003 I decided to go for it. I asked my wife for six months to chase this idea.

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Forbes Column 08: Obama: Think Smart Cards

Zero In this week reflects on Singapore’s efficient use of technology to create incredible infrastructure that flows uninterrupted, and recommends some ideas to President-elect Barack Obama. While the problem of aging and unsafe roads and bridges needs to be addressed, it is equally important that the new administration take a broad view of infrastructure and

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From Dyslexia to SugarCRM: John Roberts (Part 1)

John Roberts is CEO and co-founder of SugarCRM. He established SugarCRM’s commercial open source business model. Today the Sugar community is one of the largest open source communities on the Web.

Deal Radar 2008: Studywiz Spark

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Legendary Entrepreneur and Author Judy Estrin (Part 7)

SM: Really strong people do not tolerate that kind of dynamic. JE: The way to lead innovation is to bring out the leadership in each individual.

Legendary Entrepreneur and Author Judy Estrin (Part 6)

SM: What knowledge and experience did you gain from your time at Packet Design? JE: For the first time I realized how hard it is to hire CEOs. One of the problems with an incubator is that if you try to turn the idea over to someone else and it was not their idea, they

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Legendary Entrepreneur and Author Judy Estrin (Part 5)

SM: What did you do after NCD? JE: We took six months off thinking we would not start anything again. Then six months later we started Precept, which was video streaming software. That was before video streaming was popular.