Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 6)

Over the last five parts, I interviewed HP to extract the full significance of his innovation. After all, Reverse Osmosis and Osmotic Power are not exactly my own core competency areas, so I needed him to walk us through the market landscape, the ROI factors, and the general business eco-system dynamics. As I did that,

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SaaS: How About a Middle Ground?

Last Fall, I wrote a widely read piece called Venture Capital in India, in which I pegged the Indian venture boom to be largely in Real Estate, Retail, and to an extent in Consumer Internet, not much in actual technology. Last week, Sujai Karampuri made a well researched case for technology product companies in India.

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Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 5)

In this next segment I asked HP a couple of questions on what types of applications and markets he is planning for the future. As we have seen in the previous segments, HP has a firm grasp of ERI’s immediate core competency and it’s business environment. Here HP demonstrates another characteristic we often find in

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Web 3.0: More Roll-Ups To Come

This week, ComVentures has gotten into trouble by trying to roll up several companies in its portfolio into one that is performing relatively well. If you missed this little soap opera, you can catch up here, here, and here. Well, the truth is, we have seen a tremendous overfunding in the last year in the

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Serial Entrepreneur: Philippe Courtot (Part 11)

My interview with Philippe concludes with final discussions about Qualys, as well as his parting views on the extended enterprise. Also, all ye entrepreneurs in India and China, listen up, he has ideas for you too!

Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 4)

Many entrepreneurs struggle to fully understand their business environment. Here we see that HP has a very strong grasp on ERI, and how their technology impacts governments and social needs throughout the world. Discovery Channel called the PX the most significant engineering breakthrough that you will see in your lifetime.

The FilmLoop-Comventures Saga

Techcrunch has come out with a story accusing Comventures about unethical practices in pulling the plug on Filmloop, and forcing them to be folded into Frabrik, one of their better performing portfolio companies. Unfortunately, the villain of this story is a guy called Keyur Patel.

Serial Entrepreneur: Philippe Courtot (Part 10)

We continue the discussions about the Qualys Software-As-A-Service business model, and offer the Extended Enterprise as the new paradigm challenge for software companies to tackle. In fact, if you are a software entrepreneur looking for your next big idea, listen up carefully.