Need To Drive Child Entrepreneurship

Reinforcing the child entrepreneur message, we have brought you three great stories, including the current one: Caleb Sima, a security wizard, started out at sixteen. Two previous stories, Kevin Sproles of Volusion and Scott Wainner of ResellerRatings, are equally inspiring.

It is deeply disturbing to see so many kids returning from college and hanging around without direction, and NYT and WSJ trying to explain why kids these days are refusing to grow up.

If you have kids or know kids who need to be groomed in the entrepreneurship path, we’d be happy to have them in One Million by One Million. Please send them along!

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 7)

SM: I would love to learn more as data emerges. Also, standardization is a result of this process, right?

RT: Absolutely. Starting with development and testing, which I didn’t even mention when I talked about the workloads, that is the easiest place where you can get great value through virtualization, standardization, and automation. That’s a process in which we are deeply involved with a lot of clients. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Fabulousyarn

By guest author Praveen Kumar

Fabulousyarn is a Web retailer that deals in luxury yarn and knitting accessories. The company also sells through a brick-and-mortar shop in Tivoli, New York. Fabulousyarn has positioned itself as a niche site for high-quality yarns that caters to women passionate about knitting. The company evolved from a hand-knit sweater business called fabsweaters, which was started by Judy Schmitz in 2003. >>>

Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 2)

SM: In the end, your parents did you a favor by taking away the television and forcing you into something more productive.

CS: My father took a particularly interesting approach to my activities. He helped me to make my first fake ID. I wanted to make a fake ID, and I downloaded all the items I needed and tested everything. My dad helped me do all of this and then gave me a piece of advice that has really helped me in my life. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Ric Telford, Vice President Of Cloud Services, IBM (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra, Pablo Chacin and Saurabh Mallik

SM: I suppose you believe that the advent of cloud computing has been democratizing those small enterprises and their access to technology?

RT: What I believe is that for small companies that have IT, what the cloud enables them to do is have a strategy of not being forces to use some of their resources to hire IT people. >>>

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For E-Commerce Entrepreneurs On August 26

For entrepreneurs looking to discuss positioning, financing, and all aspects of a startup venture, this FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable will be held this Thursday, August 26, 2010, starting at: 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. IST. Cohosted with Volusion, e-commerce businesses will be given first priority to pitch during this special roundtable. We hope you will join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here.

Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 1)

Prior to taking the helm of Armorize, Caleb Sima was co-founder and CTO to SPI Dynamics, the world’s leading and de facto standard for Web application security scanning. After being acquired by HP, Caleb was made HP’s Chief Technologist – Application Security Center, where he helped HP build a SaaS version of HP’s application security offerings. He also directed the lifecycle of HP’s Web application security solutions where he led a team of accomplished security experts that have received worldwide recognition for identifying new security threats and devising advanced countermeasures. Caleb has been engaged in the Internet security arena since 1996, a time when the concept of Internet security was just emerging. After being a security engineer for S1, he joined Internet Security Systems’ (later IBM) elite X-Force research and development team, where he founded the first pen testing team and bootstrapped the company’s enterprise security assessment business.

SM: Caleb, let’s begin by reviewing your background. Where are you from? Where does your story begin?

CS: I was born in Hawaii and moved to Atlanta when I was seven. I grew up in Atlanta and did not leave there until last year, when I moved to San Francisco. When I was a kid I got into a lot of trouble. I was very rebellious, and I was constantly grounded. I was not allowed to watch TV or play with my friends. Most of the time I was stuck in my room and was only allowed to read books. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot

This week’s Entrepreneur Journeys interview is with Jean-Marie Hullot, formerly of NeXT and Apple and the founder of Fotopedia. Jean-Marie recounts his travels through Asia and South America, his work with Steve Jobs, and his vision for Fotopedia. Click on the full article to read the interview and the rest of this week’s posts. >>>