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It's that time of year when high school and college kids step away from their digital screens and engage with some old-school media for a change: their yearb...

"All Greek to Me" If you’re not up on Greek mythology, you might want to do a quick Google on the myth of Sisyphus. I’ll wait…. Sisyphus provided a metaphor ...

"3Com is a must read for anyone interested in learning about how the magic of Silicon Valley works. It is a story about the start up, growth and evolution o...

I met Ron Sege early on in my finance career, when we both worked at ROLM. This was circa 1984, the same year that Apple released the Macintosh (with its ico...

Larry Birenbaum gets credit, in a way, for inventing Fast Ethernet—or at least asking the right question, “Can’t we just make Ethernet go faster?” Larry was ...

I appreciate the fact that Janice Roberts lives in the Silicon Valley town next to mine, and that she also likes Italian food – naturally, we caught up over ...

My first significant interaction with Edgar Masri was at an offsite with other managers. We called it the “Billion Dollar Managers” offsite,, and it included...

John Hart—the Gymnast Inventor. John was 3Com’s CTO for most of a decade. He was instrumental in bringing boundary routing to 3Com, and helping the company g...

Bob Finocchio was Eric’s right hand man for many years and an instrumental part of 3Com’s executive history. Bob ran 3Com’s Network Systems Group side of the...

If you get your hands on a copy of our book, you’ll be able to read 3Com CEO Eric Benhamou’s thought-provoking foreword that illuminates what young entrepren...

So, who is this Jeff Thermond? Jeff is very smart, swears like a sailor, and discovered his love of technology all the way back when he was a kid reading sci...

Chris is one of the friendliest finance guys in the room, always smiling, and always looking for something humorous to add to the story. In that way Chris ha...

Doug Spreng has always greeted me with a smile and a kinetic energy that is contagious. Even with a bad right ankle (see his photo below), that has taken fou...

Leon was a founder of Synernetics, the pioneering Ethernet switching company that was acquired by 3Com in 1994. This acquisition took place just after Cisco’...