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HOT TOPICS
- The Accelerator Conundrum
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
IBM
Serial Entrepreneur: Manoj Saxena (Part 6)
SM: Where are you now in your frame of mind? You are at IBM obviously, are you going to be at IBM? How does IBM jive with your current state of mind? Where do you want to go next? What motivates you? MS: Well I am at IBM right now. I’m still running the Webify
Serial Entrepreneur: Manoj Saxena (Part 5)
In this portion of our interview with Manoj we take a deeper look at the person behind the success. We delve into the individual traits which have built success. SM: What is your own personal core competency? Is it engineering, is it sales, marketing? MS: I would say that it’s a combination of product management
Serial Entrepreneur: Manoj Saxena (Part 4)
In part 4 of our interview we discuss Manoj’s second venture, Webify. SM: In the case of Webify you were funding it with your own money, right? MS: Right, the first million bucks, I wrote those checks myself. The interesting part with Webify was I started it in March 2002. I had the hardest time
Serial Entrepreneur: Manoj Saxena (Part 3)
In part three of our interview Manoj discusses the various acquisition offers, as well as his exit strategy. SM: In mid to late 2000 the Internet market started to crash, how did it go for your company?. MS: In late 2000 it didn’t crash for us; we had about four other offers for acquisitions in
Serial Entrepreneur: Manoj Saxena (Part 2)
In our second part of the interview we delve into Exterprise, the first business venture by Manoj. SM: What was your first company? MS: It was basically a business collaboration platform, a company called Exterprise. We started that in June of 1998 and we sold it in March of 2001. We grew pretty rapidly from
Serial Entrepreneur: Manoj Saxena (Part 1)
Our Serial Entreprenuer series continues with a fascinating interview with Manoj Saxena. In this first segment we explore his background up to the point of his first venture. SM: Where did you grow up? MS: I grew up in India. A city called Hyderabad most of my life and then we were down in Bombay.
IBM’s Enterprise Software Acquisition Spree
Oracle gets all the media attention, but IBM has been quietly buying up enterprise software companies. They have bought the following software companies in the last 2 years: Isogon, software asset management solutions. Micromuse, Ascential & Cyanea, performance management solutions of web-based business apps. DWL, Customer Data Integration (CDI) Middleware. Collation, IT service management software.
