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3Com Is Now REALLY Going After Cisco

Posted on Friday, Sep 28th

I just got off the phone with Eric Benhamou, with whom, as you know, I have been discussing 3Com and Palm recently. I said earlier, that 3Com is trying to take on Cisco with its Chinese JV H3C in my Online Video Beneficiaries series, and that Cisco is a fat company that deserves to be

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Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 17)

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 5th

SM: Whom did you sell the high end product line to? EB: We sold it to Extreme. We put Extreme in business. It was a bad decision because the analysis was wrong. It was taken in an overheated period, by an over impatient board who were comparing ourselves with companies whose growth rate was inflated

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Online Dating & Web 3.0 (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Aug 6th

Overview Online dating (including Matchmaking, Personals and Matrimonials) is making waves across the world. In this era of online networking, dating on the net has revolutionized the age old profession of matchmaking by making it more affordable and convenient to the masses. According to Hitwise there are more than 1,421 sites in the Lifestyle –

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Happily Bootstrapping: Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu (Part 7)

Posted on Monday, Jul 16th

Sridhar’s thesis around Zoho is to ride on top of the market awareness already created by Salesforce.com, Webex and others around On-Demand / SaaS delivery models for business applications like the Office Suite, CRM, Web Conferencing, Project Management, etc. and simply do a dramatic undercutting based on price. He insists that the amount of Sales

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China’s Corruption Prevention Strategy

Posted on Sunday, Jul 15th

Here’s an article from New York Times that tells the story of a government official who was recently executed for taking bribes: :: BEIJING, July 12 — Zheng Xiaoyu once ranked as one of the most powerful regulators in China. He rose from modest beginnings to help create and lead Beijing’s version of the Food

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The Middle Kingdom’s Middle Class

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 3rd

From McKinsey Quarterly: A social revolution will soon transform China, and multinationals that do business there can’t afford to ignore it. So far, they have mostly focused on the country’s tiny minority of urban-affluent consumers. But as more Chinese migrate to the cities for higher-paying work, they are steadily climbing the income ladder. By 2011,

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BOP Market Size: $1.3 Trillion (WRI)

Posted on Saturday, Jun 30th

In International Dollar, the number, actually is $5 Trillion, which breaks down as follows. The BOP market in Asia (including the Middle East) is by far the largest: 2.86 billion people in 19 countries, with an aggregate income of $3.47 trillion. The BOP market in these countries represents 83% of the region’s population and 42%

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Silk Road 2.0

Posted on Thursday, May 31st

By Danny Cohen, Guest Author Globalization. International expansion. China & India. These are the big buzz words of 2007, and it seems that the Asian trend is only growing stronger. As the US market matures, many of the local VCs and entrepreneurs are looking for China as the next big thing, and mostly – the

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