Entries Tagged as 'Talents, Innovators'
My friend Franklin Servan-Schreiber delivered a speech last week in Houston at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, and will speak on Tuesday at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh about the final weeks of his brother, David Servan-Schreiber. Co-founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and […]
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Tags:Anticancer·David Servan-Schreiber·Dying of Cancer·Franklin Servan-Schreiber·Not the Last Goodbye
The huge success of Walter Isaacson’s book, Steve Jobs, shows the scope of our fascination for one of the top industry visionaries ever. While most people have come to realize the meaning of Steve Jobs almost in retrospect, for entrepreneurs starting in the eighties, he was already a thought-leader, and the Macintosh was already a metaphor for entrepreneurial audacity. […]
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Tags:Bill Gates·Enchantment·Entrepreneurship·Guy Kawasaki·NeXt·Pixar·Steve Jobs·The Macintosh Way·The Style Macintosh·Walter Isaacson
Twice a year, I look forward to the meeting of the UMS National Council Members, and each time I am struck by the leadership of Kenneth Fischer, the President of the University Musical Society (UMS) in Ann Arbor, MI. Leadership: you know it when you see it… However hard it may be to define, you […]
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Tags:Amahd Jamal·Ann Arbor·Cloud Gate Dance Theatre
of Taiwan·Go Blue·Innovation in the Arts·ISPA·Jim Leija·John Kennard·John Malkovich·Ken Fischer·Kenneth Fischer·Leadership·Matt Fischer·Michael Kondziolka·Patrick Hayes·Penny Fischer·Renee Danielson Fischer·Sara Billmann·UMS·University Musical Society
This is a post that I wrote in French for Atlantico.fr earlier this week and that my daughter, Sophie Delphis translated. The buzz generated by Steve Jobs’ announcement of his departure was unprecedented in the history of the industry. This is hardly surprising: even Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, and one of the […]
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Tags:Andy Hertzfeld·Apple·Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation·Democratizing luxury·Innovation vs Invention·Leadership·Memorability·Steve Jobs·Susan Kare·Thomas Watson
Earlier this week at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA, I was the keynote speaker at the second annual Conference of Women@theFrontier founded by Susan Fonseca-Klein, also founding architect of Singularity University, an interdisciplinary university based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley whose mission is to educate and inspire leaders to […]
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Tags:1M by 1M program·Courtney Macavinta·Entrepreneurship·Francine Gordon·Gloria Feldt·innovation·Jackie Parker·Joy Buolamwini·Leadership·No Excuses·Sandra de Castro Buffington·Singularity University·Sramana Mitra·Susan Fonseca-Klein·Women enterperneurs·Women shaping the Internet·Women@theFrontier
Guest Writer: Jeremy Rossmann* Nothing’s stopping you: Five years ago, you needed thousands of dollars and an established company to get your hands on a development kit from Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft. To make things worse, there were no successful distribution channels for anything but the $20+ category of games. If you were an 18 […]
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Tags:Defining success·Entrepreneurs·Jeremy Rossmann·Manifold Studios·MMO·Video game industry·WarSquared
Sramana Mitra, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant founded the 1M by 1M(One Million by One Million) program, “a framework for Capitalism 2.0,” she says, and which she “envisions as a distributed, democratic capitalism.” Here is what this means: Not everybody can, or even needs to, come to Silicon Valley to create a company. There are creative entrepreneurs […]
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Tags:1M/1M·BizSpark·Bootstrapping·Capitalism 2.0·Customer Validation·Economic development tools·Enterpreneurship education·Entrepreneurship·Incubator·innovation·One Million by One Million·Positioning·Sramana Mitra·Startup America·Startup Anywhere·Startup India·Success·The Art of the Start·Virtual Incubator·Weapon of massive reconstruction
Curation has been a hot topic for at least a year, and I agree with Tom Foremski, that it’s not just a trend, or as he puts it in a recent post, “a flash in the pan.” We all need to make sense of the mass of information that comes to us, and present it […]
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Tags:Bagtheweb·Curated.by·Curation·Enchantment·Flipboard·Guillaume Decugis·Guy Kawasaki·Keepstream·Paper.li·Pearltrees·Personalized magazine·Qrait·Scoop.it·Storify·Tom Foremski·Yoono Socialzine·Zite
Sceneroller is a social music discovery site of a different breed, and a phenomenal complement to the innumerable sites and blogs dedicated to bands and artists, as well as music delivery networks such as Pandora or Soundcloud, or Deezer in Europe. It expresses something that has rarely been captured: the social nature of the music scene. […]
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Tags:Budgie·Che Underground·Deezer·Ethnopoetics·Jason Brownell·Jerome Rothenberg·Jonathan Goldin·Kurt Cobain·Manual Scan·Matthew Rothenberg·music discovery site·Music Scene Mapping·Palmolive·Pandora·Philippe Kahn·Rock'n'roll scene·Roger McNamee·Sceneroller·Soundcloud·The Flowers of Romance·The Melvins·The Morlocks·The Slits
Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment is out today in the US and will be published in French by Diateino at the end of this month. To read the French version of this preface, please go to the Diateino blog. Thanks to my daughter, Sophie Delphis, for translation it into English! Entrepreneurs, re-enchant the world! There are people […]
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Tags:Avrom Sutzkever·Changing Hearts·Changing Minds·Childhood alone does not age·Crows’ feet·Delbourg-Delphis·Disenchantment of the world·Dory Manor·Enchantment·Entrepreneurship·Evangelism·Guy Kawasaki·Influence·MAGIC·Max Weber·Reality Check·Sophie Delphis·The Art of the Start