Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 11)

In our next segment of the interview, we examine the security marketplace and where things stand today. We take a close look at the open problems, and where, according to Taher, the market is headed. SM: Secure email is a very difficult space with Microsoft and everybody else. TE: We do not really compete with

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Saints Capital: Offering Secondary Market Liquidity

I recently had a very interesting conversation with Ken Sawyer, founder of Saints Capital, a new fund that offers secondary market liquidity to small companies and their shareholders. Let’s look at a few examples.

Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 10)

Next we move on to trace Taher’s work after Securify, which is currently back to being a private company, with $9.5 M revenue in 2006 revenue, having achieved 339% growth last year. SM: Who is running Securify today? TE: The CEO is Buck French. He was actually an investor in the company from JP Morgan

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Israel Internet Bubble?

By Daniel Cohen, Guest Author Last week was the Marker‘s Internet event, and although I wasn’t there (Guy wrote about it in my blog), I did hear a lot about it from my partners and from other friends. The feedback was strong and clear – we are in a bubble. There are too many entrepreneurs,

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Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 9)

A rather short venture for Taher results in some very impressive results. Here he details the sale of Securify. SM: You are saying you have an expert system which knows what behavior patterns are are allowed, and if the patterns match those heuristics it is OK? TE: I don’t like the word expert system because

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Raising Money in India

By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author, reporting from Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect conference in Mumbai. The third panel featured an interactive discussion on “Raising & Leveraging Venture Capital” and was moderated by Manik Arora, Managing Director of IDG Ventures India. The entrepreneurs on the panel – Nitish Mittersain, Founder & CEO of Nazara Technologies

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Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 8)

Taher addresses some of the unexpected impacts of the growth of the Internet, and the impact this had on network design. These thoughts lead into the development of Securify. SM: What were you doing with Securify? TE: That was mid 1998, and it was an attempt to make networks work correctly knowing the entities you

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Platform-Oriented Mobile VAS

By Arun Natarajan, Guest Author, reporting from Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect conference in Mumbai. Alok Mittal, Executive Director of Canaan Partners, emphasized the need for Mobile VAS companies to “own the customer” as well as directly create demand for their applications. This would be the best way for them to get a larger

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