We don’t have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source

Vew few software company CEO can be this frank :

If an open source product gets good enough, we’ll simply take it. Take [the web server software] Apache: once Apache got better than our own web server, we threw it away and took Apache. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it – [...]

Wonder why it’s called Burn Rate?

Jeff Hawkins on how to speed your business:
Very few companies didnt succeed because they moved slow. Many companies went out of business because they moved fast.
He is a fun guy to listen to. Looks like Numenta is upto something very interesting. Looks very out-there but you never know once the applied side of the [...]

Enterpreneurial insights

Indians started using shampoo thanks to Autodesk. That joke (obviously taken out of context) and other interesting facts from Carol Bartz as she shares her enterpreneurial insights with Stanford Technology Venture program participants.
If you are not learning then you are not interested and then you wont be interesting.
Listen to the podcast here.

Where there is a will there’s water and electricity

Billions and billions of dollars have been pledged and pillaged but Indian government is still not able to provide water and electricity to all it’s citizens. World famous innovator Dean Kamen thinks this problem can be solved without any big bang approach. Creator [...]

Catching up on Web2.0 using Web2.0 technology

Though not in the Bay Area to attend TIE event but I can still imagine the energy and am able to read interesting one-liners from the panelists.
Thanks to Zoli who did a great job of putting the session on his blog I can [...]

Cocomment consolidating your comments

Considering the fact that more people read blogs versus writing/owning one, it may be a clever idea to capture all the comments made by conversation participants in one place.
Cocomment is one company attempting to bring more visibility and linking by consolidating all the [...]

27 something

Not sure why he picked 27 as the limit but one thing is sure Noah is totally into college stuff. Last we met he was planning for this kind of summit and looks like their team did a fantastic job.
Web2.0 mania is all [...]

Stanford joins the iPod economy

First MIT caused a major disruption by launching Open Courseware project. It received tremendous response and still growing in influence.
Now thanks to growing iPod economy, Stanford University is jumping in this “goodbye to walled gardens” strategy of offering free lecture courses. They have [...]

Still valid - It’s the fast that eat the slow

From Jason Jennings and Lawrence Haughton’s popular book - It’s the fast that eat the slow:

The greater the number of people who learn about your planned product or service, the greater the number of distractions you\’ll encounter.
Operating in stealth is becoming increasingly complex [...]

Enterpreneurship in India: Waiting for the golden era

Was Indian entrepreneurship always about managing cynicism? Wikipedia defines cynicism in following terms -    cynicism may refer to heartless calculating behavior or thinking. Someone who has no faith in the goodness of other human beings may have less restraints to behave in a calculating way without compassion but this doesn’t have to be the [...]