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From father to son

September 5, 2014
Blog August 22, 2014

From Product teardowns to Investor teardowns — interesting use in the finance world…

Back in August, 2011, I wrote about product teardowns and the immense benefits/insights that they bring. I…

Blog June 25, 2014

7 Steps to monetize your shares in a (private) company

Ben Smith and I shared some of our experiences in trying to monetize shares held…

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Click or Clack? In either case, we will miss you!

April 5, 2014
Blog February 26, 2014

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs — starting them young!

The world talks about Silicon Valley, its spirit of entrepreneurship and how unmatched this environment…

Blog December 12, 2013

The 5 parts of a truly secure password

My middle-schooler is amused with the “complicated” password on my iPad. “Why don’t you make…

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A lifetime’s investment gives the lease of a lifetime

October 6, 2013
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Unshackled by mobility — and liberated by SecuriSync

Earlier this month, I needed to make an unplanned personal trip to India. As I…

Blog October 24, 2011

Changing the world from the bottom — one village at a time

As an engineer and closet sociologist, I love stories about cultural change — especially those…

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  • Dr. Prasad Akella is a serial entrepreneur who has created and commercialized deep tech products that empower humans — in three very different areas: robotics, business social networks, computer vision/AI.
    He is a Fellow of the ASME and the SME and a Stanford PhD, Michigan MBA, and IIT BS.

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      • I went to Egypt for the pyramids and fell in love with its mangoes
      • Four generations of engineers: The life and times of my grandfather, CVS Narasimha Rao
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    The tresses of time: A history of hair

    May 26, 2025

    Assembly’s future: Reducing the cost of quality even as we improve quality

    By Prasad September 22, 2021

    (Originally posted on Sep 22, 2021 on the Drishti blog) Defect rate benchmarks have been…

    Introducing the “right to affordable repair”

    September 15, 2021

    Humans or automation: For now, it’s both

    September 2, 2021

    Why data drives the next industrial revolution and how it impacts the design process

    August 18, 2021

    Thinking long: Prasad Akella on Drishti’s new CEO, Gary Jackson

    July 20, 2021

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