Outsourcing: Sanjay Dhawan, CEO of Symphony Services (Part 6)

SM: That’s exactly my point. You can, if you go into a niche that is an up and coming niche that is potentially underserved and you develop core competency – the real operating words are core competency. SD: Yes. Their story, their focus was very UI and design focused. Immediately before this, like I said,

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Steve Jobs’s Memorial Service At 7:55 A.M. PDT

Just before the 100th roundtable today, at 7:55 a.m. PDT/10:55 a.m. EDT/8:25 p.m. IST, there will be a brief memorial service for Steve Jobs. To attend, please click here a few minutes early. Update: Here is the recording.

Deal Radar 2008: BitTorrent

BitTorrent—founded by Bram Cohen and Ashwin Navin in September 2004—is one of the players in the peer-to-peer content delivery industry. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company invented the BitTorrent protocol and runs a peer assisted content delivery system based on the protocol.

Design in the 21st Century: A Coffee with Barry Katz (Part 7)

SM: What is your interpretation of what is going on in Steve Job’s head that allows him to do something really interesting and leapfrogging with design every time? BK: I don’t think it is every time. Apple has cultivated a mystique of the ‘magic Job’s touch’. SM: He did look outside of America to get

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Design in the 21st Century: A Coffee with Barry Katz (Part 2)

SM: While you were going through your career transformation, design was also transforming. I am not going to ask you to go through 20th-century design in two seconds, but what was going on with design at that time? BK: Good, because that would take at least four seconds! Design has been meandering for about 120 years.

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First Time Entrepreneurs?

[This discussion is getting really interesting … please chime in, folks …] I am trying to figure out the seriousness of something that I see is going on in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. I need your help to understand the phenomenon, and would appreciate if you engage in this thread and offer your perspective. VCs

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Trend Radar 2008: Miniaturization

Our wish list for what features we want on the convergence device keeps getting longer, while form factor keeps getting smaller. Familiar movie. Unfamiliar outcome.

Trend Radar 2008: Device Usability

Legend has it that John Rubinstein, father of the iPod, left Apple last year because he and Steve Jobs could not agree on one fundamental usability element for the iPhone. Rubinstein wanted the iPhone to have a keyboard. Jobs didn’t. While the iPhone has broken many records in achieving better usability, the lack of a

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