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Leadership Profile: Sass Somekh (Part 1)
Dr. Sass Somekh recently took the time to share with me insights gathered during his phenomenal career. After some initial work with Bell Labs and Intel, he spent 23 years with Applied Materials prior to becoming the President of Novellus. At Applied, he perfected a process of enabling innovation to coexist in a large company
MicroFinance and Rural Development
When I first started writing this blog, I wrote a series of pieces on MicroEntrepreneurship. Today, as the world is making giant leaps in embracing the entrepreneurship potential buried in the lowest rung of the poverty pyramid, I want to showcase a few of those pieces for your reading. Tier 4 Market Definition : I
TheFind: LifeStyle Shopping (Part 4)
[Part 3] One of the questions I often explore with serial entrepreneurs, is how do they identify the next open problem to work on. In this segment, Siva explains his thought process on how he Found the Find. SM: Under what circumstances did the company get started? SK: The company was started in 2004 while
TheFind: LifeStyle Shopping (Part 3)
[Part 2] TheFind obviously has identified an exciting opportunity, but is it big enough? The answer to this question determines whether the venture will scale or not. It’s interesting how Siva derives the TAM. SM: How big is the market for what you have to offer? TAM analysis is essentially what I am looking for
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 13)
To conclude our interview, we discuss current events in the marketplace as well as the current and future expectations of Tumbleweed. SM: Why Tumbleweed at this stage of the game? TE: I love the consulting lifestyle because I can work with so many companies at a time. It is very entertaining, but you never actually
It’s a Marathon, not a Sprint
By Dharma Kuthanur, Guest Author Starting this column on a personal note, it so happens that both my former company (a VoIP infrastructure provider) and my wife’s former company (an optical networking company) are planning to do their IPOs this year. In the tech IPO-starved times in which we live, this probably counts as both
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 12)
Taher and I continue our discussion of the security marketplace, and Taher’s vision for Tumbleweed’s product roadmap, as the company takes on its turnaround challenge. SM: Can you explain the rational of Cisco acquiring IronPort? TE: Cisco wants to go upstream. They have a lot of infrastructure equipment, and they are working on the self-defending
TheFind: LifeStyle Shopping (Part 1)
A few weeks back, Siva Kumar came by for a chat. Over a cup of tea, we brainstormed about the state of Shopping on the internet, and Siva shared with me the details of his new startup, TheFind. Over the next few segments, we will discuss the company in detail. Siva is a seasoned entrepreneur,