Texas Big 12 Business Plan Competition

This year,after a gap of couple of years, I was a judge at the Texas Big 12 Business plan competition. The purpose is to bring out the innovation in the Big 12 schools and encourage the grads there to commercialize their discoveries and inventions.

Do you like your phone?

How often have you heard someone ask you – just after you pulled out your Treo or Blackberry or any other PDA phone. “Do you like your phone? I am thinking of getting one of these..” I have a Treo and have carried a blackberry in the recent past. If I go back far enough, [...]

Place Shifting – not the U-Haul kind

(First published two years ago)
My 3yr old son walked into my study hearing the radio. He looked at the computer monitor with a puzzled expression and said “that’s not the picture, that’s your email”. He kept scanning the room – I realized that he was looking for a TV picture to match Garrison Keilor’s voice. [...]

A day with Narayana Murthy

I spent a day with NR Murthy in Claremont, CA near LA. He was helping his daughter move between dorms and mentoring me at the same time – it was quite an experience to spend 8+ hours with him. Need permission to access – please email author for access.