When I had a battlefield promotion to become the CEO at Excelan from VP of engineering in 1985, I had to metamorphose as a…

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Duane Murray was the the fourth founder of Excelan. We had an ambitious hardware development plan and we needed somebody to supplement me. Duane’s…

Ben Rekhi 6 hrs · Quezon City, Philippines · Nov 8 A year since the world shifted on its axis Since we watched the…

I felt very good and confident about things as the 1985 drew to close. Company had established itself as a profitable venture with a…

Although, picking TCP/IP proved to be the right decision ultimately, it was any thing but easy decision at the time. TCP/IP was seen as tainted protocol,…

Excelan was by and large a technology supplier to OEMs. These OEMs were tbuilding super-microcomputers using a plethora of Micro-processors and busses. Most of…

As I took over as the Interim CEO in March of 1985, we were hemorrhaging cash badly. We were selling Ethernet boards at a…

In March of 1985 I had the battlefield promotion to become CEO, actually interim CEO, of Excelan. My co-founder Inder Mohan Singh had just…

I wrote this piece in 1999. It is still germane.

After being laid off from RCA Computer Systems, I moved from West Palm Beach, Florida to Sunnyvale in Northern California in December of 1971.…

Entrepreneurs are the main source of jobs and new wealth in the modern society. In US almost all the new jobs are created by companies that…

In the summer of 1995 I rented a 16 passenger Ford Van took 8 kids and two adults on a 30 day, 6000 mile western…