Opportunities At The Cusps: FireEye CEO Ashar Aziz (Part 1)

Ashar Aziz is the CEO of FireEye and a highly technical engineer with extensive knowledge of networking, network security, and datacenter virtualization. Prior to FireEye, Ashar founded Terraspring, a company focused on datacenter automation and virtualization that was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2002. Ashar spent twelve years at Sun as a distinguished engineer. He has a EE from MIT and a CS degree from Berkeley.

SM: To start, take us back to where your story begins.

AA: My story begins in Pakistan where I was born and grew up. >>>

Reminder: Roundtable Today at 11AM

Reminder! At 11 AM PT today, Sramana Mitra partners with ReadWriteWeb to bring you a Web 3.0 product strategy roundtable online, using Dimdim’s open source web conferencing platform. To attend, simply click the link below at 11 AM or dial-in to hear Sramana give live feedback to 8 entrepreneurs. If there is time, she will take your questions submitted live using Dimdim.
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Conf ID: 918878#
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Deal Radar 2008: Mevio

Digital entertainment network Mevio bills itself as users’ personal Internet TV, music and radio network. Originally known as PodShow, the company was founded in 2004 by former MTV VJ Adam Curry and technology and media executive and former songwriter/producer Ron Bloom, to help people download and publish podcasts. In a bid to re-brand itself, the company changed its name to Mevio and launched a new site and “vertical entertainment networks” targeting specific demographics. >>>

Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 8)

SM: Essentially what you are doing at 3Leaf is allowing cumulative resource pooling of servers?

BVJ: Exactly. If you go back to the mainframe days you will realize it was absolutely a successful concept. You ran a single operating system on a big computer. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: EchoSign

EchoSign is the web’s No. 1 electronic signature service. It cuts the time it takes for documents to be signed and delivered electronically to just minutes; companies no longer need to wait for weeks to get back signed contracts. All users need to do is email the document, so the other party can e-sign it or print, sign and fax it. All parties then receive a PDF copy, and EchoSign handles the filing of the documents. There are various levels of membership. Fewer than five signatures are free, with other packages ranging from $12.95 to $299 a month depending on the number of users. >>>

Anatomy of Innovation: Exodus Founder B.V. Jagadeesh (Part 7)

SM: How did you determine that was the direction the market was going?

BVJ: We made a bet on the fact that security was becoming more evident after 9/11. Based on my experience at Exodus, we also bet that bandwidth costs were going to be higher. >>>

The Bad News Bores (Celebratory Nature of The News)

By Richard Laermer, Guest Author

I noticed it first at a Kwanzaa party late last year. Having trouble keeping myself amused, I started quizzing those holding drinks and discovered that everyone there was kind of “into” news and recent events. >>>

Oct 21: Web 3.0 Roundtable

ReadWriteWeb Presents: Sramana Mitra’s Web 3.0 Roundtable on Oct 21 at 11am PST. If you haven’t registered, there’s still time.