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Thirty-five-year-old Michael J. Saylor, MIT alum and CEO of high-tech company MicroStrategy, is trying to do exactly that...
...that proposed by Saylor; in both, students sign up for courses and can get a degree without ever stepping foot in a classroom. Yet, degrees earned through established correspondence courses are commonly held to be inferior to those earned at universities. An online university would simply be the high-tech version of the correspondence course...
...came the rise of dotcoms. Richard believed satellite transmission of the Internet to TV sets in China and India would be his future, and his Pacific Century Group got $50 million in backing from Intel for that dream in 1998. His next big deal was to develop a high-tech "Cyberport" on a prime piece of land donated by the Hong Kong government--without, strangely, the territory's usual process of taking bids from potential developers. He then created Pacific Century CyberWorks through a so-called back-door listing on the Hong Kong exchange, a procedure in which an existing...
...have a formula that is hardly likely to appeal to a tough-minded American venture capitalist at the top of his game. But there was another side to the equation that led Norman Prouty to head for India three years ago. By his calculation, 40% of all successful high-tech stock IPOs in Silicon Valley were floated by Indian entrepreneurs. Why not go to the source of all that talent and help it reach its full potential by adding venture capital and U.S. business know-how? Prouty's reckoning seems to be paying off. As managing director of ICF Ventures...
...They rely on e-mail to keep in touch day to day, and they vacation together several times a year. In the intervals, Prouty finds that work is the best antidote for his loneliness, and India is the beneficiary. With one hand on the pulse of the country's tech industry and the other flipping through a Rolodex of global resources, Prouty is helping import the vibrancy of Silicon Valley to southern India...