In my class on entrepreneurship yesterday, a student asked whether entrepreneurship be taught or is it that entrepreneurs are born. This is the same question as can writing be taught, or can singing be taught, or can Tennis be taught. …
Face Recognition Engine
XiD Tech won a competition for all Asian and Australian compunies in security market.  XiD has this powerful technology to create multiple (several hundreds) possible appearences of a person based on one or just a few facial images. This is…
CNN YouTube Debates
Who could imagine just a year (or much less say 6 months) ago that there will be an event called CNN YouTube debates that will be very popular (for example see the story in News.com)? YouTube has definitely become an…
From Killer Apps to Platform
News.com has a nice story on how several companies have used the approach of satrting with an application and when it becomes popular to convert it to a platform to really make it popular. “The Internet is the new operating…
Rising wages in India starting to hurt
Hopfully the story mentioned here is an exception not a common occurrence. Image search firm Riya is to pull its research and engineering operations out of India to consolidate in the U.S. due to rising wages in Bangalore. There has been…