Catching Up on Readings: Hydro Alchemy

Since the last catching up list on April 26, you may have accumulated more backlog. What’s with the Yahoo-Microsoft frenzy? Here’s a quick cache of the articles since then that you may want to make sure you read:

Forbes Column 08: Hydro-Alchemy

My new Forbes column, Hydro-Alchemy, discusses the world’s upcoming water crisis and an entrepreneurial venture, Energy Recovery Inc., that is tackling the problem with a Sea Water Reverse Osmosis technology for water desalination. You may have read my interview with Hans Peter Michelet last year. ERI has recently filed to go public.

Forbes Column 08: Lighting The Way In India

I had concluded a previous Forbes column by saying greed is infectious. My new Forbes column, Lighting The Way In India, highlights an entrepreneur who does not give a damn about greed. You have read his interview, perhaps, here.

Forbes Column 08: Bootstrap Yourself

My new Forbes column Bootstrap Yourself highlights Silicon Valley’s hottest new trend, Bootstrapping. Great bootstrapping case studies I have covered are Sridhar Vembu, Frank Levinson and Jerry Rawls, Cree Lawson, and Beatrice Tarka. Sridhar, Frank and Jerry did it almost without any outside money, while Cree and Beatrice have done it with very small rounds

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Forbes Column 08: Fund Envy

My new Forbes column, Fund Envy, follows up on the previous one, The Real VCs of Silicon Valley with more on the venture capital industry, and the consistent move of capital and expertise away from true venture capital to money management. And once you have read the piece, apply the formula I offered to the

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Forbes Column 08: How to Save the World’s Back Office

Please read my new Forbes column, How to Save the World’s Back Office. In it, I discuss Gram IT, a rural BPO project promoted by Satyam. There is also a video segment that you can watch here. I would love to see more projects like this come about, get funded, and scaled in the commercial

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Forbes Column 08: India – Cash Rich, Product Poor

My new Forbes column discusses India’s venture capital situation, on which, you have heard me speak repeatedly before: India: Cash Rich, Product Poor.

Forbes Column 08: The Coming Death of Indian Outsourcing

My most recent Forbes Column, The Coming Death of Indian Outsourcing, discusses companies like ADP and their “nearshoring” moves.