Serial Entrepreneur: Philippe Courtot (Part 4)

Continuing on with the interview, Philippe takes charge of cc:Mail.

Serial Entrepreneur: Philippe Courtot (Part 3)

In this third portion of the interview, Philippe discusses his move to the US, and his progression there. He joins Thompson CGR, and encounters more of the cultural difficulties he thought he had left behind in France. We learn about his successes and the role he played in raising cancer awareness!

Serial Entrepreneur: Philippe Courtot (Part 2)

In the next portion of the interview, we examine Philippe’s educational background. This is particularly interesting if you recall that this is during the rebuilding phase after WWII, and set in that context. We also examine his initial jobs out of college and the cultural limitations he encountered, which fanned the fire in him.

Serial Entrepreneur: Philippe Courtot (Part 1)

In this next iteration of the Serial Entrepreneur series, I had a rather long interview with Philippe Courtot. He is an exceptionally driven and talented individual, and also brings a tremendous amount of successful experience to this series. In what will likely be one of the longest interviews in this series, Philippe really gives us

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Serial Entrepreneur: Manoj Saxena (Part 7)

In the final chapter of our interview with Manoj he discusses his desires for the future, as well as his philisophical ideals which have guided him so far. SM: How old are you, Manoj? MS: I’m 41. SM: You have a lot of time left. MS: I’ve gone to places for a month where you

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Serial Entrepreneur: Manoj Saxena (Part 6)

SM: Where are you now in your frame of mind? You are at IBM obviously, are you going to be at IBM? How does IBM jive with your current state of mind? Where do you want to go next? What motivates you? MS: Well I am at IBM right now. I’m still running the Webify

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Serial Entrepreneur: Manoj Saxena (Part 5)

In this portion of our interview with Manoj we take a deeper look at the person behind the success. We delve into the individual traits which have built success. SM: What is your own personal core competency? Is it engineering, is it sales, marketing? MS: I would say that it’s a combination of product management

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Serial Entrepreneur: Manoj Saxena (Part 4)

In part 4 of our interview we discuss Manoj’s second venture, Webify. SM: In the case of Webify you were funding it with your own money, right? MS: Right, the first million bucks, I wrote those checks myself. The interesting part with Webify was I started it in March 2002. I had the hardest time

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