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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How bad is it for startups seeking financing? This is the title of a post by Jeremy Liew on November 24th[1]. Well, it’s bad and as usual, Jeremy Liew says it pretty much like it is: Angel financing had dried; A slowing economy has reduced near term revenue growth expectations; Venture Capitalists are focusing on their […]
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Millenials may have been an important factor in the election of Barak Obama. As indicated by the Tufts University’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), ‘this year’s youth turnout rivals or exceeds the youth turnout rate of 52% in 1992, which is the highest turnout rate since 1972 (55.4%) For […]
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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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Peter Yared? I met him… arghh… almost twenty years ago. He was a 4D developer during his time at IDS. I lost track of him while he was Prograph and later at JRad Technologies, an enterprise Java tools company that he founded in 1995 and was acquired by NetDynamics where he stayed – until the […]
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Non-profit organizations (NPO) are all the more fascinating as they must be, if not “profitable,” at least capable of operating on budget and offer some form of moral earnings and satisfaction to their patrons. Just as any business, they must show real numbers in order to justify their existence and the continued involvement of donors […]
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Probably because of the downturn, I have never been asked as often as this year if it is useful for entrepreneurs to have an M.B.A! Entrepreneurs are, almost by definition, “francs-tireurs,” (literally meaning “sharpshooters”), in other terms “guerrilla fighters” operating separately from the regular army. (Incidentally, this French word appeared in the English vocabulary as […]
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