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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
Role Model Interview
The Education Problem: Raj Reddy (Part 5)
The new educational model proposed by Raj is based on capability and performance, and negates the advantages that some students have in terms of better access to quality schools and a better support system at home. SM: Children raised in cities have an advantage as well becuase they have environmental nurturing which the village kid
Turn Around Series: Jerry Rawls, Finisar (Part 6)
A very interesting discussion of the dramatic times during the late 90’s and the early 2000 timeframe. Read on. SM: What were your sales pre-IPO? JR: I think in the ’98 period they were probably $30M. Our fiscal year 2000, which is when we went public, was $67M. In January of 1999 the IPO market
The Education Problem: Raj Reddy (Part 4)
Raj explains his theory of the “local best”, as well as how he identifies these students for admission into his school’s masters program. SM: You are also saying the book or lecture based education is not the way to go. RR: That is what I am saying. If this person is just putting the same
Turn Around Series: Jerry Rawls, Finisar (Part 5)
Among the many amazing feats Jerry has accomplished with Finisar, one of the most impressive is how the company was able to grow and develop without the assistance of outside funding. SM: All of this you were still doing without outside money; it was still a bootstrapped company? JR: Still a bootstrapped company. SM: Wow,
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.
Turn Around Series: Jerry Rawls, Finisar (Part 4)
A key strategic victory for Finisar was facilitating the fiber channel stadard to utilize multimode fiber and shorter wavelengths. Here Jerry discusses how Finisar was able to do this, a feat which leading experts at the time said was impossible.
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
Turn Around Series: Jerry Rawls, Finisar (Part 3)
To support the company initially, Finisar relied on providing consulting services. It’s a very common way that companies bootstrap themselves. I have done it myself. SM: What kind of Consulting did you provide? Like System Integrators? JR: Well, actually, the first customer would be Raynet themselves, but we would have to get others soon enough.
