In a recent powwow, I was asked about my takeaway for entrepreneurs from the Winter Olympics. As I was starting to discuss the make-up of a champion, mentally ranking key characteristics, I changed gears and realized that what struck me the most, ultimately, was the victory of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo in pair figure skating. Not [...]
My takeaway for entrepreneurs from the Winter Olympics: Fail-forward-fast, and fulfill the promise
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Talents, Innovators
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Alain Calefas: How his entrepreneurial quest for adventure led him to create Serenity Valley next to Silicon Valley
November 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Entrepreneurs
Alain Calefas, Serenity Valley founder, with Michel Serres at DBF, a networking organization for French entrepreneurs, on November 2, 2009. That day, Alain Calefas was interviewed by Jean-Louis Gassée (who co-founded DBF in 1994).
Alain Calefas graduated from the French Ecole Polytechnique, arguably one of the most elitist schools in Europe. To get in, you have [...]
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Musings about Innovation, as I walked around The Henry Ford Museum
September 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Entrepreneurs, Talents, Innovators
Entrepreneurial tourism… It is definitely worth flying to Detroit to spend one or two days at The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn. It is the largest estate dedicated to the history of American lifestyles and technology innovations – and it also includes a high school! Originally called the Edison Institute of Technology [...]
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Eric Hautemont: Days of Wonder – an entrepreneur is an entrepreneur is an entrepreneur!
February 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Entrepreneurs, Talents, Innovators
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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Ken Kaplan, New Media Manager at Intel: The PR Metamorphose
February 3rd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Talents, Innovators
Ken Kaplan is the Broadband and New Media Manager in the Consumer and Social Media Team, which is part of the Global Communication Group of Intel. He embodies a new generation of PR: “Today, PR is not about messages, although they are in there. It’s about telling stories that connect to trends and that are [...]
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Hamid Farzaneh, CEO of DisplayLink: Ergonomics in a Multiple Application Environment
January 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Entrepreneurs
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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Frederic Kerrest: On the entrepreneurial path
January 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Entrepreneurs
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 talking [...]
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Guy Kawasaki: Great writers are great readers
December 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Entrepreneurs
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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Denise Caruso: The new face of advocacy: More innovation to address the shortcomings generated by innovation.
November 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs
Denise Caruso is famous, and definitely an industry icon – or rather a multi-industries icon. Yet, do we always know “well-known” people? No. The fact is that as we work ourselves like crazy, we often don’t have enough energy left to scope out the extent or the depth of the dedication that our friends put [...]
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Who is the VC, who is the entrepreneur? (Modern Menswear)
November 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Entrepreneurs
I let you decide…
Anyway, this is the question that popped into my mind when I came across this spread as I was leafing through ”Modern Menswear,” a book written by Hywel Davies, and published by Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London, in April.
We all know how challenging life can be for high-tech entrepreneurs, no matter how hard [...]
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