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Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 5)

Uncategorized | March 28th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Taher has a great background with many security and cryptography companies. Here we track his invovlement in RSA.
SM: What year does that bring us to? TE: 1991. The piece of InfoChip I was responsible for got sold to Cyrex, which is a chip company down in Texas. I ended up leaving, and after calling […]

Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 7)

Uncategorized | March 28th, 2007 | 3 Comments

After her time as CEO of Wink, Maggie’s next move was to Microsoft where she helped them with their interactive television business. Her background in cable and software was certainly an advantage, however her talent for cultivating and developing relationships with partners is truly an incredible asset that she is famous for in the industry.
SM: […]

Reed Hastings Joins Microsoft Board

Uncategorized | March 27th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix, and a renowned serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley is joining Microsoft’s Board. It’s a superb move for Microsoft to bring on board a through-and-through decent and no-bullshit smart guy like Reed on, not to mention the fact that the battle for the consumers’ living room is in full […]

Will Buyout Save Tribune?

Uncategorized | March 27th, 2007 | 3 Comments

Tribune Company is a media and entertainment company engaged in publishing, interactive media and broadcasting. The Company is the only media organization with newspapers, television stations and websites in the nation’s top three markets and reaches out to approximately 80 percent of U.S. households. Tribune publishes 11 popular daily newspapers including Los Angeles Times, Chicago […]

Expertise Location (Part 2)

Uncategorized | March 27th, 2007 | 1 Comment

[Part 1] We’re talking with Charles Armstrong. One of the reasons I have chosen this topic is that I believe, it is one of the best applications for the enterprise to leverage web 2.0 principles.
Charles Armstrong is Founder & CEO of Trampoline Systems. An ethnographer turned technology entrepreneur, Charles studied Social & Political Science […]

Serial Entrepreneur: Taher Elgamal (Part 4)

Uncategorized | March 27th, 2007 | 5 Comments

Taher and I chart his path from college into the professional world. Entrepreneurs often learn from false starts and moderately successful or unsuccessful experiments. Taher describes some of his.
SM: Was Netscape your first job? TE: No, I graduated in 1984. One of my colleagues was at HP, and he called me and convinced […]

Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 6)

Uncategorized | March 27th, 2007 | 1 Comment

We continue our discussion on Wink, its capabilities, technology, IPO, and subsequent sale. Remember, all this was happening in the pre-broadband, pre-always-on era that we have come to know in the last 5 years.
SM: When you say that you had installations in 30 million households, was that 30 million households subscribed to the services, or […]

McClatchy: Focusing on Online and Local

Uncategorized | March 26th, 2007 | 6 Comments

The McClatchy Company is the third largest newspaper company in the United States. The Company publishes 31 daily newspapers and approximately 50 non-dailies across 29 locations in the United States. The prominent newspapers from the Company include the Miami Herald, the Kansas City Star, the Charlotte Observer and the Sacramento Bee.
McClatchy also owns some […]