From Mannarakoil To CEO Of Global Scholar: Kal Raman’s Journey (Part 4)

Sramana: Did Global Scholar emerge out of your charitable work in education? Kal Raman: In 2004 Mike Milken learned about my efforts and desires to help with education. He told me he had donated a billion dollars to US education and that he still could not make a dent. He was pleased that I had

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Business Incubator Series: Mark Lieberman, Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County, California (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Mark: We receive about five or six applications a month. Irina: How many out of those do you usually take in? Mark: We have two programs. One is the resident program where we devote most of our resources. We also have an affiliate program. The affiliate program

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Silicon Valley: The Next Decade (Part 3)

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Diane Bryant, CIO Of Intel (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Siddharth Garg and Rahul Nagpal Sramana Mitra: To summarize, you would say that if you were using Google apps, they would offer you a native implementation of that with the same functionality. Diane Bryant: Google started a consumer solution, and we are hardcore enterprise. I think maybe that is

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From Mannarakoil To CEO Of Global Scholar: Kal Raman’s Journey (Part 3)

Sramana: What did you do after you had led Drugstore.com back to a $9 stock position? Kal Raman: That was sometime around 2003. I had begun having conversations with my board about what our next steps should be. I gave them three choices. First, being a micro-cap public company is not an easy thing, especially

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Silicon Valley: The Next Decade (Part 2)

How Do You Foster Renaissance Thinking? Each period of renaissance from history saw great congregations of talented people from multiple disciplines in certain cities or regions. Two prominent examples are Florence under the Medicis and Elizabethan England. Artists, writers, scientists, and philosophers were in the same place, working close to each other and exchanging ideas

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Business Incubator Series: Mark Lieberman, Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County, California (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Mark: We have connections to two of the largest angel groups in Southern California. The Pasadena Angels reside in our incubator. That’s over 100 member organization. And The Tech Coast Angels, I think, is the largest angel network in the world with close to 300 members, all

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