Argues that anyone who wants to succeed as an entrepreneur must constantly evolve, and shares the author's achievements with Ascend Communications and ideas for business development.
Rob Ryan is a pioneer of the high-tech industry. In 1989 he founded AscEND
Communications with $2.5 million in venture capital financing. At the beginning of 1999, AscEND
was sold to Lucent for $25 billion. Shortly after taking the company public, Ryan retired from AscEND
and started Entrepreneur America from his 1.000-acre ranch in Montana. He has helped launch a string of successful companies, including LookSmart, Virtmed, RightNow, Silicon Spice, Virtual Ink, Vellis, and NetCracker.