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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 9)
I am curious how Anant addresses the intellectual property strategy for Tilera. In the back of my mind is the story of Tessera, a company that has had fundamental innovations in chip scale packaging, and today every single manufacturer of miniaturized consumer devices violate their patent, and pay them royalties. Some of the innovations that
The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 1)
I write this series with great pleasure, as my former graduate school advisor and renowned MIT professor Anant Agarwal unveils his so far stealth-mode company Tilera this week. Tilera could well be the next big breakthrough in processor design. SM: Anant, please give us some background on where you come from. AA: Growing up, I
Re-engineering the Book Business: Blurb CEO, Eileen Gittins (Part 4)
SM: What are your top target segments? EG: We segment the market very broadly into Consumer/Prosumer and Professional. Top segments within consumer/Prosumer are: * photography books of all kinds including travel, fine art, compilations from photo enthusiast communities * wedding (participant books) * yearbooks, student/class books * family histories * cookbooks Top segments within Professional
Re-engineering the Book Business: Blurb CEO, Eileen Gittins (Part 2)
SM: What was the market landscape like when you founded the company? EG: Well for one thing, Blurb was a very contrarian play at the time. VCs were funding blogging platforms and social networks and online plays – and here we were taking bits back into atoms. But fortunately I had good relationships in the
Design To Move: Apple’s Genius Bar
As the iPhone mania rages, it is a good time for us to pay tribute to the most spectacular innovation in retail store design, The Apple Store. From Business Week: “On a square-foot basis, each of Apple’s 142 stores brings in almost three times the sales generated by each Best Buy store.” And some Apple
Cadence LBO?
Does naivete rule, when investors send Cadence shares up to a 52-week high on the rumors of a buy-out? The truth is, a Private Equity player buying Cadence doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense, since the company has a very slow growth rate due to the industry’s normal behavior patterns. It has
Turn Logic into Magic (6)
By Dominique Trempont, Guest Author A world that simply does not get “Magic” is high tech. With the glaring exceptions of Apple, Logitech, Blackberry, Motorola and possibly HP recently, it is a screaming desert. High tech does not understand brand, customer experience and design in general. Not even the beginning of a clue. It may
Turn Logic into Magic (5)
By Dominique Trempont, Guest Author Design an end-to-end customer experience. Designers tend to favor right brain thinking. People’s perception of a brand is also very much about right brain thinking. That is where magic takes place (or not).
