Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Focus On The Customer

Here’s a roundup of recent coverage:

Hayli Morrison interviewed Sramana for her Entrepreneur.com article on startup debt, How Bad Do You Want It? >>>

Winners of “Entrepreneur Journeys” E-Book Promotion and Instructions to Enter Draw for the Second Volume

Thanks to all those readers who retweeted the story. We randomly picked the following 15 winners for “Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume One”. >>>

Adobe Flash To Be Available On Mobiles As Smartphone War Heats Up

After a long wait, Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE), the leading maker of creative applications with annual revenue of $3.58 billion, is releasing the Adobe Flash for mobile phones in October of this year. While the new Palm webOS, Symbian S60, Android, and Windows Mobile operating systems should benefit from this popular application becoming available on mobiles, iPhone and BlackBerry users will be left out of an amazing web experience. Let’s take a closer look. >>>

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 1)

Vivek Ranadivé founded TIBCO in 1985. He is also the author of the New York Times business bestseller “The Power of Now: How Winning Companies Sense and Respond to Change Using Real-time Technology” (McGraw-Hill, 1999). He was one of InfoWorld’s 2002 Top Ten Technology Innovators and was recognized by Ernst & Young as a 2002 Software Entrepreneur of the Year.

Prior to founding TIBCO, Vivek founded a UNIX consulting company. Prior to that, he held management and engineering positions with Ford Motor Company, M/A-COM Linkabit and Fortune Systems. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. He received both master’s and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

SM: Vivek, where does your story begin? Where did you grow up and what was the environment like?

VR: My story begins in Bombay and yes, I still call it Bombay. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: RadarFind

As the House of Representatives prepares to vote on its new bill to rein in health costs, entrepreneurs across the country continue to do their part to make the lumbering, disjointed health system more efficient. The latest such company in the Deal Radar spotlight is RadarFind Corporation, which develops integrated real-time location systems (RTLS) for tracking mobile medical equipment and patients. Designed by physicians and hospital administrators specifically for the hospital environment, it has been developed based on over two years of qualitative research conducted with more than 60 hospitals. >>>

Last Day to Retweet For Free “Entrepreneur Journeys” E-Book

The deadline to retweet to win free e-book copies of “Entrepreneur Journeys”, Volumes One and Two, is TODAY, Wednesday, July 15 at midnight Pacific time. See the full post for details. >>>

From Semiconductors to Green Power: Borrego CEO Mike Hall (Part 7)

SM: What is your prognosis on solar? Are we going to have grid parity in 2012?

MH: I think we will have grid parity on the retail side, the distributed generation side, which is systems on houses and office buildings. I think that people will then challenge the whole premise. >>>

Sramana to Moderate AMITA’s Women Entrepreneurs Panel on July 16 in Palo Alto

Have you ever considered starting a company or joining a start-up? How do you evaluate opportunities and decide when to take the plunge? How do you finance your startup? >>>