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. [...]
The Macintosh Way by Guy Kawasaki: Ageless Insights into Entrepreneurial Audacity
January 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Entrepreneurs, Talents, Innovators
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Bootstrapping: OAC, or the Art of Empowering Aspiring Singers
June 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Book Review
Guest writer: Sophie Delphis
The program I’m doing this year, Opera Academy of California, is presenting a summer line up for pre-professional singers – including a series of master classes, five nights of selected opera scenes and three full operas – for the first time. This is a new venture, with a relatively small group and [...]
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Five tips for entrepreneurs in two minutes: Conversation with Jacques Birol
May 29th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Entrepreneurs
I was in Paris last month for the launch of the French version of Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment (”Enchantement“) at one of the great business schools over there, ESCP Europe. The following day, I met with fantastic entrepreneurs at Le Camping, a six-month accelerator program located inside the Palais Brongniart. I had a conversation on the [...]
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From abracadabra to SEO power words
April 19th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Entrepreneurs
By Marylene Delbourg-Delphis
Abracadabra, “create as I say” in Aramaic, has been the power word of magicians for centuries. Today, when we tweet or blog, we all look for the power words that will grab the readers’ attention. What are they? This was the theme of a speech I gave to the class of Angelika Blendstrup [...]
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Scoop.it: topic-centric and a new collaborative dimension to curation
April 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Entrepreneurs, Talents, Innovators
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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The enchantment of prefacing the French translation of Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment (US translation)
March 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Entrepreneurs, Talents, Innovators
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 who [...]
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About Guy Kawasaki’s book Enchantment: Business enchantment through a child’s eyes
January 11th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Book Review
Guest writer: Sophie Delphis
My mother is currently finishing up her French translation of Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions, which comes out in the US on March 8th. As in past translation work she has done, I’ve been providing irregular advice on how to adapt certain phrases or anecdotes in [...]
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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 [...]
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English translation of my preface to the French version of Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod
September 24th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Book Review, Entrepreneurs, Talents, Innovators
By Marylene Delbourg-Delphis @mddelphis
Note: This book will be published in French by Diateino in January 2011. As a reminder, Diateino is also the French publisher of Seth Godin’s and Guy Kawasaki’s most recent books. To read my French version of this preface, please go to the Diateino blog.
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English translation of my preface to the French version of Linchpin by Seth Godin
May 13th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Entrepreneurs, Talents, Innovators
By Marylene Delbourg-Delphis @mddelphis
Diateino, the French publisher of Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start and Reality Check as well as and Seth Godin’s Tribes, will release the French translation of Seth Godin’s Linchpin on May 2o. This time, I was not the translator, but I wrote a preface that is available on the Diateino blog. [...]
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