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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
leadership
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 1)
Maggie Wilderotter is the current CEO of Citizen Communications (CZN). Citizen is an industry leader in rural telecommunication services with 2006 revenues of $2B. It offers ILEC services under the Frontier name in the United States. I was introduced to Maggie as one of the most impressive women executives. [Bio] SM: Let’s start with your
Turn Around Series: Jerry Rawls, Finisar (Part 14)
In the conclusion of the interview, I find it very interesting how Jerry was able to remain motivated and energized throughout the entire process, even after he had made (as Frank calls it) ridiculous amounts of money. SM: That sounds like a great story, congratulations for being able to navigate your ship through all of
Enterprise 3.0 Collaboration: eProject (Part 3)
[Part 2] Looks like the company is strong in terms of Market Opportunity and Solution Offering. But how about the Team?
The Education Problem: Raj Reddy (Part 3)
The cost of education has been the source of intense debates around the world. Can a new framework and approach increase the quality of education while decreasing the cost? Can it increase accessibility to quality education and become a global solution? In this next segment, Raj provides some insight to these questions.
The Education Problem: Raj Reddy (Part 2)
Essential to Raj’s vision is the creation of a knowledge base, which requires a substantial amount of time and funding to develop. Here we learn one manner in which this can be accomplished. SM: Before you move on let me ask you, purely from a systems building and systems scalability point of view, if you’re
The Education Problem: Raj Reddy (Part 1)
Recently I talked with Raj Reddy (wiki bio here) about his thoughts in applying technology to education. To begin this series we review the theoretical foundation for his current work. SM: Raj, I am really looking forward to having a discussion on what I would call strategy and policy in terms of broader use of
What Is The Basis of CEO Pay?
WSJ reports on Yahoo’s CEO compensation: :: Terry Semel, the chief executive of Yahoo Inc., received a 2006 bonus of $25.7 million in stock, representing 80% of the maximum he was eligible to receive even as the firm’s share price fell by more than a third during the year. Yahoo struggled in the year as
India Needs More Incubator Funds
Yesterday, I spent an hour chatting with Subrata Mitra, one of the Partners at Indian seed fund Erasmic, which has been in the news recently for attracting Google as a Limited Partner. I have been writing often about the Indian seed investment situation: Concept Arbitrage, Venture Capital in India, Too Much Money, Too Few Deals
