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Entries from February 2009

Artist-entrepreneur: Cory Pesaturo, Accordionist, Hard Work on the Fast Lane

February 26th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Entrepreneurs, Talents, Innovators

Update Sept. 3, 2009: Cory Pesaturo is the first American to win a World Accordion Championship for the United States in 25 years. The competition, called the 62nd Coupe Mondiale World Accordion Championships, is the most prestigious International Accordion competition in the world, and this year, was held on August 25-29, 2009 in Auckland, New Zealand. Below [...]

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Eric Hautemont: Days of Wonder – an entrepreneur is an entrepreneur is an entrepreneur!

February 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Entrepreneurs, Talents, Innovators

Eric Hautemont – he is a high tech guy with an MS in AI and Applied Maths, who decided to launch Days of Wonder, a board game company – yes a traditional board game company, just as if we were in Persia or Egypt back in 3500 BC, and this, in the heart of Silicon [...]

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Ken Kaplan, New Media Manager at Intel: The PR Metamorphose

February 3rd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Talents, Innovators

Ken Kaplan is the Broadband and New Media Manager in the Consumer and Social Media Team, which is part of the Global Communication Group of Intel. He embodies a new generation of PR: “Today, PR is not about messages, although they are in there. It’s about telling stories that connect to trends and that are [...]

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