Machine generated contents note: Praise for The Entrepreneurial Connection vii -- Foreword ix -- Preface xi -- Acknowledgements xiii -- AnnaLee Saxenian -- a University of California, Berkeley -- Culture and Competition in the Silicon Valley 1 -- Arun Netravali -- * Bell Laboratories -- Creating Change through Invention and Innovation 15 -- Raj Parekh -- a Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, Comstellar Technologies -- Technology Strategies and Road Maps 29 -- Vinod Khosla -- * Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers -- Starting Up in High Gear 43 -- Anil K Gupta -- * University of Maryland, Stanford University -- Business Strategy 59 -- Romesh Wadhwani -- * Aspect Development, i2 Corporation -- Great Companies are Built on Vision 73 -- Kanwal Rekhi -- a Excelan, TiE -- Out-of-the-Box Thinking 95 -- Saiyed Atiq Raza -- * NexGen, AMD, Raza Foundries -- Operational Excellence 115 -- Vani Kola -- * RightWorks -- Passion for Success 131 -- Prabhu Goel -- * Gateway Design, iPolicy -- Building a Company 147 -- K B Chandrasekhar -- I Exodus, Jamcracker -- Market Penetration 163 -- Vinod Dham -- * Intel, NexGen, Silicon Spice -- Connecting the Dots 173 -- Desh Deshpande -- * Cascade Communications, Sycamore Networks -- Davids and Goliaths 187 -- Narayana Murthy -- * Infosys -- Leading by Example 211 -- Jayshree Ullal -- * Cisco Systems -- Exponential Growth 225 -- Rajat Gupta -- * McKinsey & Company -- Global Leadership 239 -- Krish Prabhu -- * Alcatel -- Globalization 251 -- Vivek Ranadiv6 -- a TIBCO Software Inc. -- Leading in Turbulent Times 271 -- Raj Singh -- * Cerent, Siara, StratumOne -- Serial Entrepreneurship 281 -- Azim H Premji -- * Wipro Corporation -- The Transformation 295 -- Sabeer Bhatia -- a Hotmail, Arzoo -- Morphing at Internet Speed 309 -- Suhas Patil -- * Cirrus Logic, TiE -- Mentoring Entrepreneurs 323 -- Hatim Tyabji -- * VeriFone -- Ahead of The Times 335 -- Prakash Bhalerao -- a Ambit Design Systems -- Angel Investing 347 -- Rafiq Dossani -- M Stanford University -- The Venture Capital Ecosystem 357 -- Deepak Chopra -- * The Chopra Centerfor Well Being -- East Meets West 369.

Transcript of interviews with entrepreneurs from Indian origin.