Podcast at Renewable Energy World

Check this interview out: Learning from Renewable Energy Entrepreneurs.

Forbes Column 2009: Barriers To Innovation

Here’s Zero-In this week, reflecting on what barriers to innovation need to be removed for us to have a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. Read my new Forbes column, Barriers To Innovation.

Forbes Column 09: Free To Innovate

As you know, I have been talking to lots of entrepreneurs about various business models to support innovation, especially in industries from which VCs are pulling out (Security, Networking, Chips, Enterprise Software, etc.). This article looks at a business model that offers an alternative framework to support innovation. Read my latest Forbes column, Free to

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Forbes Column 2009: Success Tips For New Entrepreneurs

Here’s my new Forbes column, Success Tips For New Entrepreneurs, based on the Entrepreneurship Forum this week, where all 130 attendees were either first-time entrepreneurs, or tire-kicking, aspiring entrepreneurs. It was an interesting snapshot of people in the midst of a deep recession, thinking about new horizons. Read on!

Today’s Entrepreneurship Webinar

Today’s webinar was very well attended (probably the largest Dimdim webinar they’ve ever had, according to Steve Chazin, CMO) – well over 130 people from 220+ registered. For those of you who missed the webinar, here is the recording:

New Facebook Group

Readers, we have a new Facebook group to continue incomplete discussions following all the different events we’re now participating in. Please feel free to start discussions on various topics related to entrepreneurship, and hopefully, we can help one another out.

IIT Kharagpur Esummit 2009

I had the pleasure of visiting IIT Kharagpur on January 2 to give the opening lecture at the Entrepreneurship Summit 2009 on Entrepreneurship Opportunities in India. Here’s Shrey Goyal blogging about the event.

Postcard From Singapore

I have been in Singapore this past week at the INSEAD business school’s Asia campus. Today, I spoke at their Global Entrepreneurship Forum, which gave me an interesting window into entrepreneurship in East Asia. The interest in entrepreneurship and the energy is great. The ecosystem, of course, is significantly less mature. What VCs want to

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