About two weeks ago, everybody was talking about the amazing discovery that a painting catalogued as German, early 19th century, by Christie’s in 1998 and offered for $19,000 was an unknown Leonardo da Vinci worth a fortune. How can the experts be now so sure? “Start with instinct, then try a multispectral scanner (from Lumiere [...]
Entries from October 2009
Zoomorama on the newly identified Leonardo da Vinci
October 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Entrepreneurs
Tags:Entrepreneurship·Jean Penicaut·Leonardo da Vinci·Lumiere Technology·Multispectral scanner·Zoomorama
Behind the Cloud, by Marc Benioff
October 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Entrepreneurs
When famous CEOs tell their stories, you are never quite sure if they their goal is self-aggrandizement or an authentic desire to recount something that will be of real interest to others. Marc Benioff has lots of reasons to be very proud of accomplishments, but his book Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com [...]
Tags:Carlye Adler·Cloud Computing·Entrepreneurship·Leadership·Marc Benioff·Microsoft·NGO·SaaS Model·Salesforce.com·Siebel Systems·Tom Siebel·Upshot
Social Media: The Revenge of the Internet
October 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Entrepreneurs, Talents, Innovators
Earlier this week, I had the privilege of delivering an introductory speech for a great product, ObjectiveMarketer, in front of remarkable executives and CIOs from the European Institutions hosted by Cisco Systems. It’s always a challenge to speak to an extraordinarily knowledgeable audience that is well versed in both technologies and trends, but it is also a rewarding [...]
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Guest-speaking in Bob Lowry’s class at UMass Amherst: Entrepreneurs are storytellers
October 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Entrepreneurs
It is simply a great pleasure to step into a class of some eighty highly motivated students: when I asked who planned to start a company one day, at least half of them raised their hands!
The name of the course for which I was a guest speaker is “Leadership and Networking,” taught by Bob Lowry. [...]
Tags:Bob Lowry·Bueno y Sano·Dale Carnegie·Entrepreneur·Entrepreneur Journeys·Guy Kawasaki·How to Influence People·Leadership·Networking·Positioning·Reality Check·Sramana Mitra·Storytelling·The Art of the Start·UMass Amherst