Teaching K-12 Math Online: Reasoning Mind CEO Alex Khachatryan (Part 2)

SM: What year did the math camp occur?

AK: That was around 1998. It was a Spartan moment in my thinking. If it took that much effort for my wife and I to get our son interested in mathematics, including paying $3,000 for a summer camp, which is something that not every parent is going to be able to do, what chances do other kids in different environments have? >>>

Texas Instruments: Recent Wireless Moves

By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala

In light of Vijay Nagarajan’s TI series from last summer, we will look at some recent developments at TI.

If wireless and mobile semiconductor suppliers’ play in convergence device movement can be broadly classified into four categories — baseband modem, application processor, connectivity solutions, analog and power management — TI seems to be playing its cards right in three of those and completely dropped the ball on baseband modem. TI announced its intention to sell its merchant base band business late last year. Earlier this year, TI said this business would be run as end-of-life case after failing to find a buyer at a reasonable price. >>>

Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: “We twist and turn the ideas and make them our own.”

Irina Patterson posted an interesting review of Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction on Amazon.com:

“I tell every entrepreneur I counsel to buy this book first and read it so they can get a broad overview of possible bootstrapping strategies.  After they are done with reading this book, we go chapter-by-chapter and review how similar strategies can be applied to their particular situation.

It doesn’t matter to us that sometimes it is a different market or different business model, we just use the book for base ideas and thinking directions.  Then we twist and turn the ideas and make them our own.” >>>

Teaching K-12 Math Online: Reasoning Mind CEO Alex Khachatryan (Part 1)

SM: Let’s start with a bit of your history. Where do you come from?

AK: I am from the former Soviet Union. I was born and raised in Moscow and immigrated to the United States in 1990. have lived here ever since. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Simply Hired

Simply Hired is a job search engine and recruitment network — a service that is, not surprisingly, much in demand at the moment. It searches thousands of job sites and companies and consolidates the information on its own site so that users can filter through it and conduct a search using keywords, company names, job titles and other variables. The company gathers postings from The Wall Street Journal, CareerBuilder, HotJobs, Monster.com and thousands of other sites including company sites, and categorizes this information so that users can find ads which meet their needs. >>>

Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Win Free E-Book Copy of “Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume Three”

Due to huge success of our earlier promotion, we have decided to do a similar promotion for Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume Three: Positioning: How To Test, Validate, And Bring Your Idea To Market”. We are offering free coupons for e-book copies of EJ3 to the first ten people who write a review of “Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume Two: Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction” on Amazon AND send a tweet to @sfrocks with a link to the review by midnight Pacific time on Wednesday, August 19. You can tweet @sfrocks by changing your status on Twitter to “@sfrocks Amazon review link”. The first ten people to write the review AND tweet the link to @sfrocks will get the free coupon. You must check your Twitter mentions and replies to find the coupon.

Meanwhile, you can read more about EJ3 here and find the editorial reviews here.

The Long Road to Edutainment: Tabula Digita CEO Ntiedo Etuk (Part 7)

SM: At this point it does not seem as though it would be difficult to raise more money. Are you going to be raising more money?

NE: The answer to that is maybe. I will definitely raise money as I see the consumer side take off. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: EQAL

Social media entertainment company EQAL (pronounced “equal”) was founded in April 2008 by Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried. Beckett, who was working as a plastic surgeon resident at the Loma Linda Medical Center outside of Los Angeles, quit to pursue his dream of working at the intersection of entertainment and technology. He moved back to LA and began producing comedy video podcasts when he had the idea, which later became lonelygirl15, for a YouTube video blogger whose parents were hiding a terrible secret. >>>