Forbes Column 08: ‘Edutainment’ Needs Entrepreneurs

This week’s Zero In challenges entrepreneurs to create a scalable education methodology that standardizes and makes universally accessible content across disciplines while personalizing lessons to children’s learning needs.

The column suggests that such a system need not depend on widespread access to the latest laptops or broadband technology, or even on initiatives such as Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop per Child. In countries where there is still limited access to connected laptops, almost everyone has a cellphone. Delivery of high-quality educational games on a cellphone platform is a tall order, but that should not deter entrepreneurs.

Read ‘Edutainment’ Needs Entrepreneurs on Forbes.

Accidental Entrepreneur: Cryptography Research President Paul Kocher (Part 1)

Paul founded Cryptography Research, where he now serves as president and chief scientist. He has held positions at RSA Security and was a founding member of Valicert, Inc. (Tumbleweed). Among his notable accomplishments are his work on SSL 3.0, the DES Key Search machine, and discovering timing attacks and Differential Power Analysis. He holds a B.S. from Stanford University.

SM: To start, take us through your background. Where are you from?

PK: My mother is Canadian, although whatever accent she passed on has mostly been beaten out of me. I grew up in Oregon, where my father was a university professor. >>>

Chronic Entitlitis on Wall Street

Read this article on NYT to get a feel for the chronic entitlitis that has plagued Wall Street over the last decade. Beware, it may cause some extreme side effects, including nausea.

From Dyslexia to SugarCRM: John Roberts (Part 7)

SM: On a personal level, how has dyslexia impacted your growth and success?

JR: When we got our first patent at Sugar my name was typed wrong. It was Johri. I was a bit upset about that, although they corrected it. Then I thought about it longer. If you look at it, the ri looks like an n when they are all lowercase letters. How ironic life is. Mother Nature has a sense of humor. >>>

Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: A Need For Freedom

By Maureen Kelly

As Sramana has written before, I have been working with her to help publicize and promote Entrepreneur Journeys for the past few months. After reading her inspiring book, I didn’t know if I should first go find a problem to create a business to solve it or buy stock in some of the companies whose CEOs she profiles. Probably a little of both would be a good idea. >>>

Postcard From Java

This week, we went to see Borobudur in Java. We arrived very early in the morning and found the temple almost to ourselves, except for a few other loitering visitors. Borobudur, as you may know, is the largest Buddhist monument in South East Asia and is a true symphony in stone in terms of architecture. >>>

From Dyslexia to SugarCRM: John Roberts (Part 6)

SM: What else has come out in your genre the last four years?

JR: If you look at commercial open source, which is the category we put ourselves into, there are about 20 companies . Zembra had the same model as ours and was founded at the same time. It was sold to Yahoo for $350 million. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: ShiftWise

Our coverage of health care IT continues with Oregon-based ShiftWise, an SaaS health care solutions company. Founded in 2003, the company was formed when co-founder Jason Lander recognized the tremendous inefficiencies that existed in the then-manual process of managing temporary nurses. He created an automated process that helped hospitals and other health care providers find and book supplemental health care workers more easily. >>>