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Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 5)
Taher has a great background with many security and cryptography companies. Here we track his invovlement in RSA. SM: What year does that bring us to? TE: 1991. The piece of InfoChip I was responsible for got sold to Cyrex, which is a chip company down in Texas. I ended up leaving, and after calling
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 4)
Taher and I chart his path from college into the professional world. Entrepreneurs often learn from false starts and moderately successful or unsuccessful experiments. Taher describes some of his. SM: Was Netscape your first job? TE: No, I graduated in 1984. One of my colleagues was at HP, and he called me and convinced me
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 3)
In our next segment, Taher discusses his cryptography background and how he coverted it into a professional career. SM: What did you focus on for your PhD work that led you into your professional career? TE: I developed this signature scheme … The Elgamal crypto scheme – of course I did not give it that
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 2)
Here we trace Taher’s education, beginning at Cairo University and then as he moves on to Stanford and starts working on cryptography, the discipline that eventually made him famous. SM: At Cairo University? TE: Yes, Cairo University. It is quite large and a very good school. When I came to the United States I was
Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 1)
Dr. Taher Elgamal is a tremendously successful and talented cryptographer turned entrepreneur. He is the designer of the ElGamal signature scheme which has served as the basis for the Digitial Signature Algorithm. He holds a doctorate degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. I had the pleasure of talking with Taher, discussing not only his
It’s A “Dry” Cold… (Part 2)
By Calvin McElroy, Guest Author [Second part of Cal’s review of the Canadian Venture Finance scene]
Indian Incubator Fund: Specs (Part 2)
We dicussed the “Problem” in the last part. In this one, let’s discuss the “Entrepreneur”. Again, I’ll tell you a story from my own experience. My advisor at MIT, Prof. Anant Agarwal, was (is) also an entrepreneur. So, when I walked into his office one day in 1994, and declared that I wanted to finish
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