Desh Deshpande: What it Takes to Become an Entrepreneur

Desh Deshpande is President and Chairman, Sparta Group LLC Dr. Deshpande founded Cascade Communications and Sycamore Networks and has chaired and funded several other companies. Deshpande is a life member of the MIT Corporation. The Deshpande Foundation supports Social entrepreneurship and provided the founding grant for NSF Innovation Corps (I-CorpsTM) and Deshpande Center at MIT. Desh sits down with Scott to discuss what it takes to be an innovative and successful entrepreneur.

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