Krugman On Financial Reform

Splendid piece: Don’t Cry for Wall Street. I agree that financial reform needs to hurt the finance industry.

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Forbes Column 2010: The Knock-On Effect Of Global English

Already, people in rural India are tutoring U.S. students in math and science. Read more in The Knock-On Effect Of Global English.

Putting China On The Silicon Valley Map: NetScreen And Fortinet Founder Ken Xie (Part 2)

SM: How long did you stay with the PC company doing network installations? KX: I was there for one year. I jumped around quite a bit, and sometimes I was working for multiple companies at a time. The second year I was in a grant program at Stanford. The electrical engineering program is very difficult

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Roundtable Recap: April 22 – The Original Runners

Today I spoke with a diverse group of new entrepreneurs.  Together they illustrate how a business depends on how sharply the target market is defined.  One entrepreneur is well on her way and another needs to focus more on his strongest market segment.  Like many entrepreneurs, the other two are clearly accomplished people, but don’t

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April 22 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed this session, here is the recording:

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Strong iPhone Sales In Asia Lead Apple Up and Away

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) reported another strong quarter this week driven by a whopping 131% increase in iPhone shipments and a 33% increase in Mac sales. Apple started shipping its latest innovation, the iPad, on April 3 after the close of its first quarter and is already expected to have sold more than 500,000 units of the

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Putting China On The Silicon Valley Map: NetScreen And Fortinet Founder Ken Xie (Part 1)

Ken Xie started his first network security company, Stanford InfoSystem, Inc., in 1993. A few years later, he realized the performance limitations of a software firewall and started NetScreen. NetScreen later was acquired by Juniper for $3.5 billion. At the end of 2000, Xie founded Fortinet, which pioneered Unified Threat Management (UTM). Ken earned his

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