Grade A Entrepreneurs

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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I have known Hamid Farzaneh for quite a while. Great resume with such former positions as COO of Genesis Microchip, co-founder of Motion Sense (a MEMS controller), Executive Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Silicon Optix Inc. He is now the CEO of DisplayLink. We rarely speak of business, as he is always […]

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A Jew Among the Indians: this year’s BMOP’s winning composition: The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), a major orchestra dedicated exclusively to performing, commissioning, and recording new music, presented its 11th annual Boston ConNECtion concert on January 17th at Jordan Hall (Gil Rose, conductor) featuring works by William Thomas McKinley, Michael Gandolfi, Peter Maxwell Davies, John Heiss, […]

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It’s great to live one’s life in the fast lane, and even better to do so with a sense of purpose. This is what I like about Frederic Kerrest. Entrepreneurship is his passion, and everything he does is aimed at honing his skills to become an effective entrepreneur. From engineering to sales: “I didn’t like […]

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When I first met Lara Druyan in 2000, she had just started as an associate at Allegis Capital (http://www.allegiscapital.com). At the time, I was advising a great entrepreneur, Ismael Ghalimi, the founder/CEO of Intalio (http://www.intalio.com), and we tested the company’s new pitch on her. The concept of a “Business Process Management Platform” was still somewhat cryptic […]

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Eric Benhamou started to teach at INSEAD, one of the world’s leading business schools, in 2003. He recently completed his fifth year. “I am just beginning to get a feel of what it is to be a professor there, and every year, I enjoy it more,” he says. You have an impressive arsenal of degrees, and […]

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Guy Kawasaki is a voracious reader. Not only because he wants to remain a great schmoozer (one of the reasons why he tells us to “read voraciously”), but mostly also because he adores books, loves to write, and looks at other writers as sounding boards, sources of inspiration, or thought-provoking agents. His latest book, a must-read, Reality Check: […]

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We hear about Michigan’s disastrous car industry daily… Let’s not forget, though, that there are other windows on the mishigami, the great lake: phenomenal entrepreneurs determined to transform challenges into opportunities. One of the most prominent is Roger Newton. From success to back to goal one, i.e. improving the lives of peoples Born in New […]

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Google results: 139,000,000 for “patent; “46,100,000 for “intellectual property.” However, the significance level of these numbers may not be much higher than that of a googol in math. When you are a startup, where do you start as far as IP is concerned? One simple, or “simpler” item on your priority list should be to […]

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Some of you asked me about Notifixio.us – which I installed about two weeks ago. This is a product created by young French entrepreneur, Julien Genestoux. He has a double master in business (French business school – ESSEC 2006) and Computer Sciences (Illinois Institute of Technology), has already created one successful company (Jobetudiant.net ) and […]

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