http://midtownninja.com At the intersection of Consumer Pl and Enterprise Blvd, Tech City Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:35:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently read the Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss. The book lays out the case for 'lifestyle design', where you, me and Joe the Plumber can become financially independent and use our time to do the things we really want to do--like ballroom dancing, kickboxing, meaningful charity ... http://midtownninja.com/2008/10/the-four-hour-work-week/ Last week, I attended a event organized by TiE on US-India entrepreneurship (the same one I talked about in my other post) and came home with my mind racing. Of the many great speakers at this event, one was Navjot Singh, a Partner at McKinsey&Co. From his talk and ... http://midtownninja.com/2008/10/five-things-about-india-that-blew-my-mind/ Yesterday, I attended a mini-conference at Princeton University, which explored entrepreneurship opportunities in the India-US corridor. TiE, the organizers of the event, had assembled an extraordinary roster of speakers, all of whom were engaging and made many thought-provoking points. One of the speakers was Ken Morse, the Director of ... http://midtownninja.com/2008/10/timeless-advice-for-entrepreneurs/ I was invited to a breakfast with Scott McNealy, the former CEO of Sun Microsystems this morning. The theme of the breakfast was entrepreneurship and Sun's efforts to support startups via its programs like StartupEssentials.com. Although part of the reason for McNealy's visit was to gather feedback on how ... http://midtownninja.com/2008/09/breakfast-with-scott-mcnealy-keeping-it-lightweight/ Name: Alok Mittal Location: New Delhi Bio: Alok Mittal is Managing Director with Canaan Partners India. Alok focuses on building companies in the fast-growing wireless, technology and Internet domains. A successful entrepreneur and founding member of Band of Angels India, Alok also seeks to foster the development of new global technologies in ... http://midtownninja.com/2008/09/invest-alok-mittal-canaan-partners/ Readers of this blog have read some of my thoughts about Atomized Enterprises. But as the saying goes, 'in theory, theory is no different from practice, but in practice it is'. And so it is now time to raise the curtain on an Atomized Enterprise project of my own: ... http://midtownninja.com/2008/09/introducing-project-tofu/ The act of starting and growing a business takes a lot of faith, passion and endurance. Atomized enterprises and the resulting changes in the economics of starting a technology business, however, have opened the door to a new breed of innovator: one who thinks like a VC but executes ... http://midtownninja.com/2008/08/the-entrepreneur-vc-hybrid-the-philosopher-king-of-innovation/ Name: Arvin Babu Location: Bangalore Bio: Arvin Babu joined Greylock in 2007. He is focused on early stage company investments in India. Prior to joining Greylock, Arvin co-founded two Greylock backed companies: Perfigo and Brience. Arvin was CEO at Perfigo, the leader in network admission control (NAC). Perfigo was acquired by Cisco ... http://midtownninja.com/2008/08/invest-arvin-babu-greylock-partners/ Innovation is the central focus of One More Thing. For the short time that this blog has been alive, I've tried to cover a mix of topics that highlights the ways in which our lives are changing thanks to technology. Naturally, startups and investment are part of this conversation and ... http://midtownninja.com/2008/08/invest-a-special-project-on-one-more-thing/ As I work on further posts for One More Thing, I wanted to throw out a few links for my readers on the topic of Atomized Enterprises: Gartner has recently published some research on a cohort it calls "Generation V".  This cohort is defined not ... http://midtownninja.com/2008/08/some-stuff-to-chew-on/