By Marylene Delbourg-Delphis @mddelphis
Last Friday, Marian Scheuer Sofaer invited a few friends for a breakfast in Palo Alto, CA with Gloria Feldt, who presented her now famous book, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power. A great intimate setting early in the morning that did not diminish Gloria’s energy and determination to fight [...]
Entries from October 2010
No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power, by Gloria Feldt
October 24th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Book Review, Entrepreneurs
Tags:Ada Byron Lovelace·Birth control·Blue Stockings Society·Bluestocking·Elizabeth Montegu·Feminist movement·Gloria Feldt·Leadership·Margaret Sanger·Marian Sofaer·No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power·Planned Parenthood·Power over·Power to·Women at the top·Women in business·Women in high-tech
Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup: Do More Faster, by Brad Feld and David Cohen
October 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Book Review, Entrepreneurs
David Cohen is the founder and CEO of Techstars, a mentorship-driven startup accelerator, and Brad Feld has been an early stage investor for over twenty-five years. Both authors are innate entrepreneurs and authentically love entrepreneurs. So Do more faster is not simply a platform to create speaking-opportunities, but the sincere expression of their desire to [...]
Tags:Brad Feld·Business mentor·David Cohen·Do more faster·Entrepreneurship·Everythingitis·Guy Kawasaki·Leadership·Reality Check·startup·Steve Blank·Techstars·The Art of the Start·The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Urban Arts Entrepreneur, Matthew Kwatinetz: “Culture as an engine for Cities.”
October 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Entrepreneurs, Talents, Innovators
One day, Russell Willis Taylor, the President and CEO of National Arts Strategies told me this: “Many towns look alike. There is a Starbucks at every corner. There is a Walmart in every town. But you know where you are by the art that is being enjoyed and created — that is what gives us [...]
Tags:Arts in the City·Capitol Hill Arts Center·CHAC·Creative economy·Deep Springs College·innovation·Leadership·Matthew Kwatinetz·Russell Willis Taylor·Urban Arts Entrepreneur
Create products that people want – not windmills with wigs or other curios!
October 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Book Review
By Marylene Delbourg-Delphis @mddelphis
My friend Louis Montagne, the founder CEO of Bearstech and af83, recently invited me to speak to entrepreneurs at La Cantine, a great coworking space that is part of Silicon Sentier, passage des Panoramas, a beautiful roofed commercial passageway that was build around 1800.
I was impressed by the openness of this audience [...]
Tags:af83·Bearstech·Disruptive technology·Entrepreneurship·La Cantine·Leadership·Louis Montagne·museum of curios·Product creation process·Silicon Sentier