“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”— Albert Einstein |
On January 14th, we will be collaborating with DimDim and SimplyHired to host an entrepreneurship forum for job seekers who are considering entrepreneurship. More on this here, including registration details. Read the full article »
My regular readers know that one of the aims of both Entrepreneur Journeys and this blog is to promote entrepreneurship as way to take control of one’s future. In service of this aim, in 2009 the blog will continue to feature stories of people who were laid off from their jobs and made what is often a confidence-bruising event into an opportunity to pursue projects they were passionate about while creating jobs and wealth. Jimmy Beans Wool is one such example. Read the full article »
SM: Since you have set up the company as an equity-based structure, you are going to have to exit it. If you were going to keep it you would have needed a different structure.
MM: Definitely. We would like to sell the company as a strategic acquisition to a company that can make use of the technology. The kind of companies we are interested in are ones we naturally do partnerships with. Read the full article »
SM: What was your ultimate design goal?
MM: The first problem we aimed to solve was how to make a re-transmission machine, a control system that retransmits data at a rate that matches the channel capacity for any packet loss rate over the channel and any delay. That was our design goal. Read the full article »
Indian readers: you have been asking me about the availability of Entrepreneur Journeys in India. Well, on January 2, I signed the contract with Hachette India. Hachette will be publishing EJ1, and the book will be available in India by the end of February. Thank you for your patience. Read the full article »
I had the pleasure of visiting IIT Kharagpur on January 2 to give the opening lecture at the Entrepreneurship Summit 2009 on Entrepreneurship Opportunities in India. Here’s Shrey Goyal blogging about the event. Read the full article »
I am on my way back from India, writing from the Singapore airport lounge. I think we missed to highlight my last Forbes column, Silencing India, which discusses the serious problem of noise pollution in India.
Have a look. Someone in the comments suggests banning cars altogether. Perhaps unrealistic, but reducing the number of cars on the streets of India’s metros is certainly a necessity. Smart cards, congestion taxes and new street designs are all tools that, if applied as part of a comprehensive traffic management solution, can improve the quality of life in Indian cities.
SM: You were able to find a starting point in the open source community?
MM: I found a good model from a different domain that we experimented with, and it worked well. That was the point at which we started making the protocol. Read the full article »
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