I would say more entrepreneurs are commandos like Ashwin. The reality is we got comfortable on a couple of dimensions. One is we saw that there’s a huge opportunity here, with some really fundamental deep technology, solving a really big problem. That's kind of the first order bit that you have ...
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From an investment perspective, we’ve invested quite a bit in open sourced models. J Boss and Zen Source are two recent ones, and a slope of others. And I think open source is not a model for every business, so don't every go start of with open source businesses. But I think there are certain dy...
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Students have a great opportunity being on campus to get to know people really well. And the relationships that you’re going to build here are going to be valuable for a long time after you live. So being in this environment, being in Silicon Valley, and a long heritage here at Stanford of Entre...
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He talks about new companies in three stages. Basically in the first stage, what you really want are the commandos. Those that don’t obey any rules, they take the beach, and they break everything. And they do things that in many ways what most people would consider irrational. And I view that as...
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BitTorrent Has Smart New Approach to IPTV, Forrester's James McQuivey Tells Beet.TV Peer-to-peer is inevitably going to become a primary distribution platform for online video. Joost looms large. But, BitTorrent, with some 150 million installs is the gorilla in the closet. But can you wa...
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BitTorrent President Ashwin Navin: It's Time for the Carriers to Upgrade Ashwin Navin, the president and co-founder of BitTorrent, says that peer-to-peer file sharing as a video delivery platform is a reality -- demanded by consumers and by by scores of media companies. It's time, he says, for ...
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Ashwin Navin is the President and Co-founder of BitTorrent. I caught up with him at the TiECon 2007 in Santa Clara and asked him about BitTorrent's Bollywood and India plan. Watch and find out what he has to say.
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