Deal Radar 2009: Kaltura

Today’s focus on Deal Radar is Kaltura, the first open source video platform for online video management, creation, interaction and collaboration. The New York-based company, whose development team is based in Israel, was founded by Ron Yekutiel, Dr. Shay David, Dr. Michal Tsur and Eran Etam in 2006. The founders felt that that there was

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Engine For Green Jobs: Premier Power CEO Dean Marks (Part 5)

SM: Talk about your competitive landscape. Are there hundreds of companies like yours out there right now? DM: There used to be about 350 companies. I have not looked recently, but the way things have been consolidating I would expect around 175.

Catching Up On Readings: The Facebook Era

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Capitalism 2.0: Excess, Hedonism, Value

We have discussed the role of the creator versus the role of the speculator. Let’s also discuss what are the outcomes of compensating creators over speculators. I would submit, speculators tend to have a less than compelling vision about what to do with wealth, whereas creators often have equally creative ideas about how to continue

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Clara Shih On The Facebook Era (Part 2)

By Guest Author Clara Shih Excerpt from Chapter 3, “Social Capital from Networking Online” One important way the online social graph is manifesting itself in the sociology of business is in facilitating the accumulation of social capital… Early research already shows that bringing networks online makes people more capable and efficient at accumulating, managing, and

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Capitalism 2.0: Justice

One of the flaws in Capitalism 1.0 is that fairness has often been compromised, justice has often not even been considered. In 2.0, we have to pay attention to justice much more minutely!

Engine For Green Jobs: Premier Power CEO Dean Marks (Part 4)

SM: What is the employment makeup of a typical team for one of your jobs? DM: For residential it will take a team of four 2-3 days to do. SM: What are the roles of those four people? DM: There is typically a lead who is an electrician.

Capitalism 2.0: Value Creation vs. Value Destruction

In the Creator vs. Speculator debate, there is also the need to deal with the issue of when speculation becomes a way of value destruction as opposed to value creation. One of the problems that we have with Wall Street compensation is that traders make money both as the market goes up and as the

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