Paul Volcker said two things on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS show on CNN recently: (1) Deficit reduction is critical for America (2) We need engineers, not financial engineers. You know my point of view on the speculator versus value creator issue. I consider it Capitalism’s Fundamental Flaw that speculators make so much money while value creators
SM: Did segregating the problem set into a control plan and data plane slow you down as you prepared to go to market? PS: No. It actually proved beneficial to split the problem into the control plane and the data plane. The software does not need to worry about real time. Software moved packets the
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SM: This was right at the time when Internet was beginning to emerge in mainstream communities. PS: Exactly. Netscape had just released its browser. I had the opportunity to see the number of Web sites and the amount of bandwidth being used. It was absolutely exploding. It was doubling every six to nine months.
From Shubashree Desikan’s review of Entrepreneur Journeys for The New Indian Express: “If you are keen on starting your own business and want a peek at the way the minds of great entrepreneurs work, Sramana Mitra’s series, Entrepreneur Journeys, is a good place to start. The first two volumes consist of highly informative and insightful interviews
In “Sramana Mitra Gives Away $B Entrepreneurial Ideas,” Deepika Bajaj reviews Vision India 2020 with Sramana Mitra for the Invincibelle blog. You can read the entire article here. Vision India 2020 by Sramana Mitra is available from Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle, and from Smashwords.com in all e-book formats.
Moshe Gavrielov, CEO of Xilinx, has 30 years of executive management and engineering experience with semiconductor and software companies. He served as executive vice president and general manager of the verification division at Cadence Design Systems. Before that, Gavrielov was CEO of Verisity, Ltd., where he grew the company from a $4 million startup through
The first review of Vision India 2020 just came out. Clarion Book Review gives the book five out of five stars. Vision India 2020 is a visionary romp through a possible new future for India. It looks back over a decade-long transformation of the country from its current status as “back office for the world”