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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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entrepreneur interview
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 7)
After her time as CEO of Wink, Maggie’s next move was to Microsoft where she helped them with their interactive television business. Her background in cable and software was certainly an advantage, however her talent for cultivating and developing relationships with partners is truly an incredible asset that she is famous for in the industry.
Expertise Location (Part 2)
[Part 1] We’re talking with Charles Armstrong. One of the reasons I have chosen this topic is that I believe, it is one of the best applications for the enterprise to leverage web 2.0 principles. Charles Armstrong is Founder & CEO of Trampoline Systems. An ethnographer turned technology entrepreneur, Charles studied Social & Political Science
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 4)
Taher and I chart his path from college into the professional world. Entrepreneurs often learn from false starts and moderately successful or unsuccessful experiments. Taher describes some of his. SM: Was Netscape your first job? TE: No, I graduated in 1984. One of my colleagues was at HP, and he called me and convinced me
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 6)
We continue our discussion on Wink, its capabilities, technology, IPO, and subsequent sale. Remember, all this was happening in the pre-broadband, pre-always-on era that we have come to know in the last 5 years. SM: When you say that you had installations in 30 million households, was that 30 million households subscribed to the services,
Expertise Location (Part 1)
I wrote a piece back in January called IBM’s Entry Into Social Networking, where I discussed the potential for applying web 2.0 techniques on the enterprise. Subsequently, I have written extensively about Enterprise 3.0 and the Extended Enterprise trends. A company from England had contacted me after reading the IBM piece. This company, Trampoline Systems,
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 3)
In our next segment, Taher discusses his cryptography background and how he coverted it into a professional career. SM: What did you focus on for your PhD work that led you into your professional career? TE: I developed this signature scheme … The Elgamal crypto scheme – of course I did not give it that
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 5)
Here Maggie discusses her move as the CEO of Wink, which was an ideal fit based on her experience with software and the cable industry. We also catch a glimpse of the early interactive content market, pre-broadband. SM: After McCaw Cellular you said you found a startup called Wink. How did you find it? MW:
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 2)
Here we trace Taher’s education, beginning at Cairo University and then as he moves on to Stanford and starts working on cryptography, the discipline that eventually made him famous. SM: At Cairo University? TE: Yes, Cairo University. It is quite large and a very good school. When I came to the United States I was
