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| Feb 7, 2019 | Tech monopolies are a cancer for American capitalism | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
India has been accused of resorting to protection... |
| Feb 7, 2019 | Tech monopolies are a cancer for American capitalism | India has been accused of resorting to protectionism because it enacted regulations that impose limits on e-commerce platforms. The criticisms are unfair; India is doing what the U.S. should have done: preserve capitalism and free markets. ... |
| Nov 26, 2018 | Designer babies are here — ready or not | A Chinese scientist from a university in Shenzhen claims he has succeeded in creating the world’s first genetically edited babies. He told the Associated Press that twin girls were born earlier this month after he edited their embryos using... |
| Nov 26, 2018 | Designer babies are here — ready or not | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A Chinese scientist from a university in Shenzhen... |
| Oct 23, 2018 | Vivek Wadhwa: Facebook is a Defective Product and Should be Held Liable | Should social media companies be held liable for creating products that make people hate each other? Harvard Law School Distinguished Fellow Vivek Wadhwa says yes they should. Wadhwa says that tech companies should be held liable for creati... |
| Aug 21, 2018 | Forget the Saudis: Apple or Google should acquire Tesla | Steve Jobs wanted to build an electric car as far back as 2008. In 2014, Tim Cook reportedly funded the project. To date, though, Apple has had little to show for it, and the rumors are that its electric vehicle will launch as late as 2025 ... |
| Aug 21, 2018 | Forget the Saudis: Apple or Google should acquire Tesla | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Steve Jobs wanted to build an electric car as far... |
| Aug 7, 2018 | What Silicon Valley still gets wrong about innovation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Silicon Valley well exemplifies the saying “The m... |
| Aug 7, 2018 | What Silicon Valley still gets wrong about innovation | Silicon Valley well exemplifies the saying “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Very little has changed over the past decade, with the Valley still mired in myth and stale stereotype. Ask any older entrepreneurs or women w... |
| May 17, 2018 | Why I am Silicon Valley’s greatest critic — and fan | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When Silicon Valley Forum informed me I was to be... |
| May 17, 2018 | Why I am Silicon Valley’s greatest critic — and fan | When Silicon Valley Forum informed me I was to be a recipient of its 21st visionary awards, I was in disbelief. I have long been a critic of the ways of Silicon Valley and am clearly not in the same league as the 100 or so past recipients, ... |
| Oct 31, 2017 | Facebook, Google, and Twitter could have shielded U.S. from Russian targeting | Representatives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google are set to face hostile questions from Congress about how Russia used their platforms to influence U.S. politics. The problem of unfriendly foreign powers spreading propaganda is not new. I... |
| Oct 31, 2017 | Facebook, Google, and Twitter could have shielded U.S. from Russian targeting | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Representatives from Facebook, Twitter, and Googl... |
| Aug 4, 2017 | Why Trump’s immigration proposal could actually be good for Silicon Valley | My first reaction to the headlines about President Trump’s proposal to cut immigration in half was that it would be as disastrous as his Muslim ban. But after reading details of the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act (... |
| Dec 20, 2016 | The transport systems of science fiction will be here sooner than you think | Picture the commute of the future: You live in Palo Alto, Calif., but work 350 miles away in Los Angeles. After your morning latte, you click on a smartphone app to summon your digital chauffeur. An autonomous car shows up at your front doo... |
| Dec 20, 2016 | The transport systems of science fiction will be here sooner than you think | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Picture the commute of the future: You live in Pa... |
| Nov 21, 2016 | Fake news is just the beginning, there is much more ahead | Facebook is on the defensive after the elections, with accusations that it helped spread misinformation. For days, Mark Zuckerberg was adamant his network had not affected the election results, calling that “a pretty crazy idea”. But after ... |
| Nov 21, 2016 | Fake news is just the beginning, there is much more ahead | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Facebook is on the defensive after the elections,... |
| Aug 10, 2016 | I already live in the future — and so should you | I live in the future.
I drive a Tesla electric vehicle, which controls the steering wheel on highways. My house in Menlo Park, Calif., is a “passive” home that expends minimal energy on heating or cooling. With the solar panels on my roof, ... |
| Aug 10, 2016 | I already live in the future — and so should you | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I live in the future.
I drive a Tesla electric ve... |
| Jul 27, 2016 | Why Apple needs to liberate iOS | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Apple reported lackluster earnings on Tuesday as the company’s iPhone sales continued to slide. The numbers make it clear that the futu... |
| Jul 23, 2016 | Why Elon Musk’s crazy plans for Tesla aren’t crazy | Elon Musk recently laid out a “master plan” for where his company, Tesla Motors, is heading. The vision is undoubtedly ambitious: four new kinds of Tesla vehicles, solar initiatives, autonomous driving technologies, and a ride-sharing progr... |
| Jul 11, 2016 | Self-driving cars are really coming, whether we’re ready or not | I am sure that the naysayers warned about the lethal damage that fire could do when the technology was first invented. Yes, it could cook meat and keep us warm, but it could also burn down forests. These are the debates we are having today ... |
| Jun 2, 2016 | It’s Right to Idolize the Entrepreneurs Striving to Make the World a Better Place | Editor’s note: The following post is a response to a Fortune article that outlines the dangers of putting founders such as Elizabeth Holmes on a pedestal.
In his article After the Theranos Mess, Can We Finally Quit Idolizing Entrepreneurs?,... |
| Apr 3, 2016 | Platforms are the real powerhouses in Silicon Valley’s business landscape | Vivek Wadhwa Contributor
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| Mar 20, 2016 | Entrepreneurs everywhere can now solve the problems of humanity | Vivek Wadhwa Contributor
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| Mar 10, 2016 | Ending patent wars will be a huge boon to the tech industry | Vivek Wadhwa Contributor
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| Mar 4, 2016 | Legal battles loom as technological ubiquity creates tensions between privacy and security | Vivek Wadhwa Contributor
Vivek Wadhwa is an academic, entrepreneur, and author who holds appointments at Stanford, Duke, and Singularity University.
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| Feb 22, 2016 | Technology And The Economic Divide | Vivek Wadhwa Contributor
Vivek Wadhwa is an academic, entrepreneur, and author who holds appointments at Stanford, Duke, and Singularity University.
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| Feb 13, 2016 | Seeing Beyond The Hubris Of Facebook’s Free Basics Fiasco | Vivek Wadhwa Contributor
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| Feb 8, 2016 | Free Basics And Facebook’s Waterloo In India | Vivek Wadhwa Contributor
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| Jan 25, 2016 | Technology Is Powering A New American Century, And The World Will Benefit | Vivek Wadhwa Contributor
Vivek Wadhwa is an academic, entrepreneur, and author who holds appointments at Stanford, Duke, and Singularity University.
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| Jan 19, 2016 | Is Bitcoin’s Promise Going Up In Smoke? | Vivek Wadhwa Contributor
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| Jan 13, 2016 | From AI To Robotics, 2016 Will Be The Year When The Machines Start Taking Over | Vivek Wadhwa Contributor
Vivek Wadhwa is an academic, entrepreneur, and author who holds appointments at Stanford, Duke, and Singularity University.
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| Jan 10, 2016 | Six Transformations From 2015 That Will Reshape The World | Vivek Wadhwa Contributor
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| Jul 20, 2015 | We need to adapt capitalism to fit a robot-run future | “There are more net jobs in the world today than ever before, after hundreds of years of technological innovation and hundreds of years of people predicting the death of work.”
These are the words of tech mogul Marc Andreessen, in a recent ... |
| Jul 7, 2015 | The jobless future — and why we need to prepare for it now | With the unemployment rate falling to 5.3 percent, the lowest in seven years, policy makers are heaving a sigh of relief. Indeed, with the technology boom in progress, there is a lot to be optimistic about. Manufacturing will be returning t... |
| Apr 23, 2015 | Our iPhones will soon be more intelligent than we are | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Ray Kurzweil made a startling prediction in 1999 that appears to be coming true: that by 2023 a $1,000 laptop would have the computing ... |
| Apr 23, 2015 | Our iPhones will soon be more intelligent than we are | Ray Kurzweil made a startling prediction in 1999 that appears to be coming true: that by 2023 a $1,000 laptop would have the computing power and storage capacity of a human brain. He also predicted that Moore’s Law, which postulates that th... |
| Mar 2, 2015 | The FDA is finally embracing health tech — that’s both good and bad news | On Feb. 19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took a huge step towards patient-centric medicine when it approved the marketing of genetics testing company 23andMe’s carrier test for Bloom Syndrome. This was a startling — and good — deve... |
| Feb 23, 2015 | Why I am stepping out of the debate on women in technology | I started advocating for women in engineering in 2006 when my dean at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering, Kristina Johnson, made me aware of the declining numbers of women entering the field. As a former tech entrepreneur, I found the situa... |
| Feb 14, 2015 | My response to the podcast that unfairly attacked me | There is a new controversy brewing about whether a man should be allowed to comment on the challenges that women in technology face. A podcast on WNYC’s TLDR blog site raised issue with my being quoted in a cover story in Newsweek about Sil... |
| Jan 16, 2015 | Sensible immigration reform may finally have a chance in Washington | Congress’ inability to move forward on immigration reform has taken a toll on the country’s economic growth and global competitiveness. Witness the rise of Chinese companies such as Alibaba and Xiaomi — which now have their eyes on U.S. mar... |
| Dec 22, 2014 | Our future of unlimited wealth — and joblessness | Technology advances are making amazing things possible: we finally have a chance to solve the problems that have long plagued humanity such as hunger, disease, energy, and education.
The same technologies that make this abundance possible a... |
| Dec 8, 2014 | Venture capital takes a step in the right direction on diversity, but it’s still early days | The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) announced Monday the formation of a task force to help its members increase opportunities for women and minorities. On the surface, this looks like just another news release by an industry und... |
| Oct 8, 2014 | 10 Men Making Waves For Women In Tech | Ruthe Farmer Contributor
Editor’s note: Ruthe Farmer is chief strategy and growth officer at the National Center for Women & Information Technology.
On September 20, UN Women announced the HeForShe campaign, an effort to invite men and ... |
| Jul 1, 2014 | How today’s technology is rapidly catching up to 'Star Trek' | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In a distant part of the galaxy, 300 years in the future, Starship Enterprise Captain James T. Kirk talks to his crew via a communicato... |
| Jul 1, 2014 | How today’s technology is rapidly catching up to 'Star Trek' | In a distant part of the galaxy, 300 years in the future, Starship Enterprise Captain James T. Kirk talks to his crew via a communicator; has his medical officer assess medical conditions through a handheld device called a tricorder; synthe... |
| Oct 7, 2013 | Wadhwa Group raises $24M for Dadar project, in talks with StanChart PE for $175M deal for One BKC | Mumbai-based property developer Wadhwa Group has raised close to Rs 150 crore ($24 million) for its Dadar project in Mumbai from ICICI Prudential PMS Real Estate Portfolio and another co-investor, ... TO READ THE FULL STORY
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| Jun 6, 2013 | Morgan Stanley’s realty fund to invest around $190M in Wadhwa Group’s One BKC project | Mumbai-based real estate developer Wadhwa Group is close to raising Rs 1,100 crore ($190 million) from Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund by selling stake in its commercial real estate asset called One ... TO READ THE FULL STORY
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| May 31, 2013 | India Infoline’s realty fund to invest $62M in Wadhwa Group’s Mumbai project | IIFL Real Estate Fund, the dedicated realty fund of India Infoline, is set to invest close to Rs 350 crore ($62 million) in Mumbai-based developer Wadhwa Group’s Chembur project, sources close to ... TO READ THE FULL STORY
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| Oct 19, 2012 | Why Are Indians So Entrepreneurial In The U.S.? | A recent study exposed an alarming trend in the tech industry. Immigrant entrepreneurs, who in recent years have launched half the startups in Silicon Valley, are founding drastically fewer companies. Except for one group: Indians. What mak... |
| Oct 12, 2012 | See Ya Later, Innovator: U.S. Turns Its Back On Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs | Immigration has always been the engine that drives the American economy. In Silicon Valley, foreign-born entrepreneurs have founded half the region’s startups in recent years – and kept the U.S. economy moving forward. So what happens if th... |
| Oct 5, 2012 | Research: U.S. is chasing away immigrant entrepreneurs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Oct 5, 2012 | Research: U.S. is chasing away immigrant entrepreneurs | This post is written by Samantha Huang, a research assistant at Stanford Law School.
At the immigration law firm where I worked during graduate school, I saw case after case of extremely talented individuals who, despite their many contribu... |
| Apr 3, 2012 | Keen On… Vivek Wadhwa: Why There Are So Few Black Or Female Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley [TCTV] | Sexism and racism in Silicon Valley. It’s a debate that doesn’t seem to want to die. On one side are those who believe that Silicon Valley is a genuine meritocracy; on the other, are those who are deeply troubled by the self-evident lack of... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Why the next Mark Zuckerberg may come from Brazil | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Silicon Valley has led the world in innovation an... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Why the next Mark Zuckerberg may come from Brazil | Silicon Valley has led the world in innovation and entrepreneurship because of its culture of information sharing and mentoring. No other region in the world is like it. But things are changing. In my travels to countries like India, China,... |
| Mar 20, 2012 | Silicon Valley *Is* a Meritocracy | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Of late, there has been talk that Silicon Valley is not a meritocracy, and that it is biased against women, black, and older entrepreneurs. I don’t believe this is true.
I hav... |
| Mar 10, 2012 | The future of U.S. manufacturing: Nanotech, 3D printing, and self-aware factories | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
President Barack Obama reportedly asked Steve Job... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | America, keep rewarding your dissidents | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ever since I became an academic six years ago, I ... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | America, keep rewarding your dissidents | Ever since I became an academic six years ago, I have been one of the biggest critics of U.S. competitiveness policies. I documented, for example, that we had our data wrong when it came to India and China’s advantages in engineering educat... |
| Feb 13, 2012 | Facebook and the big IPO letdown | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Feb 13, 2012 | Facebook and the big IPO letdown | Facebook’s IPO has raised hopes in Silicon Valley that the tech industry’s days of wine and roses will soon be back with hundreds of startups going public. Even President Obama seems excited. He recently proposed an “IPO on-ramp” to help yo... |
| Oct 28, 2011 | Video: A deeper look at the $35 Android tablet shows that it’s usable, mostly | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
An Android tablet that sells for just $35 seems like an irresistible bargain. At that price, you might even be willing to put up with s... |
| Oct 26, 2011 | Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Indian government thinks the $35 Aakash Android tablet has the power to change the world. After testing one out, we’d tend to agree... |
| Oct 26, 2011 | Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America (exclusive) | The Indian government thinks the $35 Aakash Android tablet has the power to change the world. After testing one out, we’d tend to agree.
An Aakash tablet was brought to the VentureBeat office on Tuesday by Vivek Wadhwa, a visiting professor... |
| Apr 24, 2011 | Higher Education’s Toughest Test | Editor’s note: This post is co-authored by guest contributors Jon Bischke and Semil Shah. Bischke founded eduFire and RG Labs and is an advisor to Altius Education and Udemy. Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Int... |
| Apr 23, 2011 | Obama-Zuckerberg and Expeditionary Economics | Thanks to the revolutions happening in the Middle East, our leaders have been touting social media as the new force for democracy. President Obama went out of his way to schmooze Facebook employees this week.
He told them that when it comes... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | X PRIZE Visioneering and The Mother of All Business Plan Competitions | I’ve participated in dozens of business plan competitions over the years. I concluded that they are a lot fun, but that they do little more than educate students on the fundamentals of starting a business. They create a lot of heat and ligh... |
| Apr 12, 2011 | Friends Don’t Let Friends Take Education Advice From Peter Thiel | My friends, my followers on Twitter, and people who’ve read my previous posts know that I have a very strong opinion about education: that it is absolutely necessary in order for you to build a foundation for success. Despite having appoint... |
| Apr 10, 2011 | The New Information Age | LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman said, recently, “that if Web 1.0 involved go search, get data and some limited interactivity, and if Web 2.0 involves real identities and real relationships, then Web 3.0 will be real identities generating mass... |
| Apr 3, 2011 | Women of Color in Tech: How Can We Encourage Them? | Over the last five years, I have taught more than 300 really smart students. One of the smartest, at the Masters of Engineering Management program at Duke University, was Viva Leigh Miller, a black woman. She had the ambition of moving to S... |
| Mar 30, 2011 | Startup Visa D.O.A., and Startup America Just a Giant Press Release? | President Obama seems to understand the role that startups play and the contribution that skilled immigrants make to U.S. economic growth. He has talked a lot about the importance of science and engineering, and expressed fears that, unless... |
| Mar 27, 2011 | What Bill Gates Could Learn from Chris Rock | Editor’s note: The following guest post is by bestselling author and former venture capitalist Peter Sims. His next book is Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. He can be found on Twitter @petersims.
In his rec... |
| Mar 26, 2011 | Friends Don’t Let Friends Get Into Finance | After having been a tech executive for many years, I needed to take a break, and I wanted to give back to society. Duke University engineering dean Kristina Johnson gave me a great spiel about how the school’s Masters of Engineering Managem... |
| Mar 21, 2011 | Engineering vs. Liberal Arts: Who’s Right—Bill or Steve? | When students asked what subjects they should major in to become a tech entrepreneur, I used to say engineering, mathematics, and science—because an education in these fields is the prerequisite for innovation, and because engineers make th... |
| Mar 14, 2011 | Finally, a Startup Visa That Works | In my last post about the Startup Visa, I was very critical of the Kerry–Lugar legislation. That’s because it required immigrant entrepreneurs to raise at least $250,000 in financing for their startups, of which $100,000 had to come from Am... |
| Mar 6, 2011 | Why Silicon Valley Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Returning Home | NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw visited Silicon Valley last month to meet immigrant entrepreneurs. At Microsoft’s Mountain View campus, he met with a dozen of them. More than half said that they might be forced to return to their home co... |
| Mar 4, 2011 | My Ordeal—and the Firestorm—in Boston | As TechCrunch readers know by now, I speak my mind and don’t shy away from controversy. I am even more provocative when I talk to students. My goal is to make them think outside the box. I encourage students not only to challenge authority,... |
| Feb 19, 2011 | What I Want in My New Google | I sent my first e-mail message in 1995, to a member of my development team. That was the only person I knew who had an e-mail address in those days. I also did my first web search around that time. I think I used Lycos for this. I entered s... |
| Feb 12, 2011 | How to Fix the Flawed Startup Visa Act | Many foreign-born techies in the U.S. and abroad are pinning their entrepreneurial hopes on the passage of a bill, sponsored by Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), to create a startup visa. Tech-industry notables such ... |
| Feb 3, 2011 | How Google Ambushed Microsoft and Changed the Subject | In previous posts, I wrote about the epic battles that are brewing between spammers and content farms—which are turning the web into a massive garbage dump—and search providers, which have to choose between profit and customer satisfaction.... |
| Jan 28, 2011 | The Future of Search: Who Will Win The Spam Wars? | Sometimes, all it takes is a little spark to set off a major forest fire. That is what seems to have happened with my New Year’s Day post on Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google. Over the last two months, there has been an aval... |
| Jan 15, 2011 | Let’s Compete on Innovation Rather Than Patents | The next generations of telecom technologies are called “LTE” or “4G”. China’s Huawei believes that by 2015, it will hold 15–20% of the worldwide patents in these technologies, and that these will earn it at least 1.5% of the sales price of... |
| Jan 8, 2011 | What Exactly is a Business Model? | Everyone in the tech world talks about business models. But I’ll bet that if you quizzed a random sample of these people, you’d find that they really don’t know what a business model is. I did just that with my students at UC-Berkeley. Most... |
| 2011 | Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google | This semester, my students at the School of Information at UC-Berkeley researched the VC system from the perspective of company founders. We prepared a detailed survey; randomly selected 500 companies from a venture database; and set out to... |
| Dec 18, 2010 | Chile’s Grand Innovation Experiment | Regions all over the world have spent millions—sometimes billions—of dollars trying to create their own Silicon Valley. They drank the same Kool-Aid and used the same recipe: start with a research university; build a fancy tech park next to... |
| Dec 4, 2010 | Shortage of Engineers or a Glut: No Simple Answer | Ask a child if there is a shortage of ice cream in the world, and no doubt, the response will be an emphatic yes—there certainly is. And ask a tech CEO if there is a shortage of engineers, and you will get the exact same answer.
That’s the ... |
| Nov 21, 2010 | Venture or Angel Capital Isn’t the End—It’s the Means | Prashant Gulati says that TechCrunch should be banned in the Middle East. That’s not because he isn’t a big fan of the site, but because he says it “puts some naïve and green young ones at a disadvantage”. The Dubai-based technologist and a... |
| Nov 13, 2010 | The Future of Indian Technology | The Indian technology industry got its start running call centers and doing low-level IT work for western firms. Then, in the 2000s, it started taking on higher-level IT tasks, offering management consulting services, and performing sophist... |
| Nov 9, 2010 | The Stanford Boys (and Girls) Club—In Beijing | I’ve written a lot about America’s flawed immigration policies: how the unavailability of permanent-resident visas and the growing xenophobia in the U.S., combined with expanding economic opportunities abroad, are causing a reverse brain dr... |
| Nov 6, 2010 | How China’s Entrepreneurs Are Helping It Win | Bob Compton and I finally have something to agree about.
The Washington, D.C.–based venture capitalist produced a provocative documentary, 2 Million Minutes, which tracked six students—two each in the U.S., India, and China—during their sen... |
| Oct 30, 2010 | Our Government Can’t Prevent A Digital 9-11: Entrepreneurs Need To Step In | At the Security Innovation Network (SINET) Showcase at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C., this week, Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, presented a dire assessment of the cyber-security thre... |
| Oct 23, 2010 | The Goldmine Of Opportunities In Gov 2.0 | Seeing a need to help 60 million Americans manage their $4 trillion dollars in retirement accounts, Mike and Ryan Alfred launched BrightScope in 2008. They headed to Washington, DC, to obtain electronic data on 401K plans from the Departmen... |
| Oct 17, 2010 | Japan: To Fix Your Economy, Honor Your Failed Entrepreneurs | After visiting Okinawa, Japan, and meeting with global experts on innovation, I’ve come to the conclusion that Silicon Valley’s greatest advantage isn’t its diversity; it is the fact that it accepts and glorifies failure. Like many other co... |
| Oct 10, 2010 | Men and Women Entrepreneurs: Not That Different | In any debate, it is easy to revert to anecdote and highlight examples that exemplify one point of view. Recent TechCrunch posts about women in tech have done just that. The latest of these claimed that women don’t want to run startups, bec... |
| Oct 3, 2010 | Should Entrepreneurs Bet It All On The Billion Dollar Exit, Or Cash Out Small? | One of the most interesting discussions at TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference was the debate between the “super angels” and VCs. No, I’m not referring to “AngelGate” or the question of which investor group squeezes entrepreneurs the most. Desp... |
| Sep 25, 2010 | Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School | Instead of another boring lecture, last week my students at UC-Berkeley got quite a treat: a lively discussion with TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington. I once described Mike as a cross between Oprah Winfrey and Howard Stern; so I was ready f... |