He graduated first in his class at Stanford, after only two and a half years, and gained partner status at VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson after only six months. Senior correspondent Hari Sreenivasan followed Jurvetson during a typical day to see how he earned that title. The holiday break has also kept most of the IPO hopefuls on the sidelines, so it's a good time to talk to our guest venture capitalists about their picks for hot 2001 IPOs and comeback companies for the new year. Glenn Solomon of VC firm Partech International and Raj Atluru from Draper Fisher Jurvetson join us in the studio. The emerging cross-fertilization of Nanotech, Infotech and Biotech into a cascade of new learning and innovation.
Information is the economy.
The basis for competition for most companies, from Walmart to Merrill Lynch will revolve around the way in which they process their information. Successful investment is not about targeting high returns. Reflections on communications-centric software revolution in enterprise and industry automation. Recent developments in the evolution of Viral Marketing. The conversion of the browser into an applications platform enables the eyeball bandits to poach customers at the checkout stand.