Vision India 2020 Is Ready For You

Readers, you know that I have been working on Vision India 2020 for almost two years. The book is a collection of my 45 business ideas leveraging India’s strategic advantages, spanning a diverse set of sectors ranging from technology to education, healthcare to infrastructure, film to rural development. These are big ideas, each with the

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The EJ Methodology: How To Check Infant Entrepreneur Mortality

I would not have believed this had someone just told me so. But based on my roundtables, I have now a reasonable sample of entrepreneurs to do some trend analysis and draw a few conclusions:

Innovation: Off the Beaten Path

By Guest Author Jordan Cole Innovation is the intersection of invention and insight, leading to the creation of economic value. The university has long been regarded as the most efficient innovation engine but, as this essay will argue, this is a misguided and even false impression.

Best Entrepreneurship Books

[This post, with a shorter list, was published earlier. An updated version is being published today.] As a self-taught entrepreneur, I have done my own digging into entrepreneurship literature. When I started writing my book series, Entrepreneur Journeys, I did a lot of thinking on what is it that I am looking for in an

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April 30 MIT Event on Bootstrapping

MIT Club of Northern California’s Entrepreneurship Program presents The Art and Science of Bootstrapping Thursday, April 30, 2009 | 6:30pm Networking & Refreshments | 7:00pm Event Starts Location: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, 950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304 PLEASE REGISTER ONLINE

March 25 Strategy Roundtable Recording

In case you missed today’s roundtable, here is the recording:

Entrepreneurship Education: Should Entrepreneurship 101 Be Compulsory?

Following up on my last Forbes column highlighting the brain drain from technology to finance, let me ask the readers an important question: Should Entrepreneurship 101 be compulsory for all science and engineering students in college, and early on, to be completed by the end of the freshman year? I believe students should be exposed

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Friedman On Stimulus Package For Entrepreneurs

Thomas Friedman has a good article in the NYTimes on how stimulus money ought to be spent. He suggests, instead of giving $20 billion to the whining General Motors, give it to 20 top VCs, and encourage them to take big risks. Read Start-Up the Risk Takers. He also acknowledges that the stimulus vis-a-vis renewable

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