“Ingredients for Successful Entrepreneurship with Innovative Technologies”
Case studies of serial Indian and Japanese entrepreneurs
How destructive innovation is achieved?
| When: | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 6:00 p.m. Reception 6:45 – 8:45 p.m. Program |
| Where: | 755 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA International Room Morrison Forester LLP |
| Fees: | $20.00: Registration by May 11 $35.00: Late Registration and Walk-ins Walk-ins are welcome, but seating is limited and will be restricted |
| Registration: | RSVP from Here |
Participating Panelists:
| Moderator Tsuyoshi Taira CEO Tazan International |
Samba Murthy Private Entrepreneur |
Shinjiro Yamada Pres. & CEO INCS, Inc. |
This month Keizai Society will present two distinguished entrepreneurs who have been able to succeed by capturing the right technologies in the right place and at the right timing. Keizai invited about 20 VCs, business people and lawyers from Japan to this event and hopes to have a productive networking with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs at this event.
Mr. Murthy, serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, will discuss his direct experience in founding and growing venture funded semiconductor and systems companies based in Silicon Valley and India.
He will explain how to successfully use “disruptive innovation” strategy to manage off shore and multi geographic development teams. He will also discuss how he created an extensive network of industry connections including venture capital, Investment banks to source experienced talent for engineering, marketing and sales.
Mr. Yamada, a successful veteran entrepreneur in Japan, will talk about how he implemented a “disruptive reduction” in make tooling for products from 45 days to 45 hours. He achieved process capability of 1 micron accuracy by using IT (Innovative Technology?). The improved automated tooling will allow his manufacturing factory in Japan to compete with overseas operations.
Yamada-san will share his experiences about motivating young engineers to tackle “impossible” objectives.
This forum will provide you with knowledge and challenges in the different environments in starting a venture business in Silicon Valley and in Japan.
RSVP by May 11th, 2008 to reserve your place!
Panelist Bios
Samba Murthy
Silicon valley serial entrepreneur and startup CEO from the semiconductor and computer networking industry. Featured in "They made it!", a recent book about silicon valley entrepreneurs (http://www.happyabout.info/theymadeit.php). Direct experience founding and growing venture funded semiconductor and systems companies based in silicon valley and India, managing off shore and multi geographic development teams. Successfully developed and launched industry’s highest performance content processor three times larger than the Pentium with 500+ man years of development. Holds BSEE and MSEE degrees, with 8 patents. www.linkedin.com/in/nssambamurthy
Shinjiro Yamada, Ph. D.
Dr. Shinjiro Yamada distinguished himself as an automobile part designer at Mitsui for 17 years. In 1990, he established INCS, Inc. INCS’ business was to provide services for all phases of the product development cycle including design, prototyping and tooling for the manufacturing industry.
By 1996, INCS initiated studies to perform detailed analysis of development processes and to engineer the process to exploit the network system named “PHARAOH”. As a result, by 1998, tooling for a mobile phone which required 45 days was reduced to 45 hours, a 24 fold improvement.
Canon Chairman Mitarai’s expedition to INCS factory convinced him to request a similar factory built for Canon. This was the birth of INCS lead-time reduction consulting business. INCS refers this process analysis methodology the “Process Technology”.
Process Technology has shown that it may be used to reduce lead-time in software development, airline operation (from landing to take-off), building construction and chemical plant maintenance schedule cycle.
