Entries from May 2009
“Cisco TelePresence. Bringing people and countries a little closer together. That’s the human network effect.” A company mantra is good when it can be memorized outside the company, and even better when it is also embraced by its employees. This is clearly the case of 22-year old Marie Gassée, who joined Cisco in August 2008 […]
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Tags:Cisco·Computer literacy in emerging countries·Cyber classroom·DOVE Orphanage·Freetown·Human Network Effect·International DOVE·Jeremy Schwartz·Judy Nelson·Kabala·Marie Gassée·Marylene Delbourg-Delphis·Megha Jain·MIT OpenCourseWare·Neil Radia·Norberto Mujica·NPO·Pranav Rastogi·Rachel Server·Wells Fargo·World Possible·worldpossible.org
Guest Author: Sophie Delphis The May 9th Osvaldo Golijov and Dawn Upshaw Young Artists Concert, the first of two showcasing eight young composers and their original commissions (unfortunately, I was unable to attend the second concert), was an experience that is seldom afforded to audiences. The atmosphere in Carnegie’s Zankel Hall was familiar and excited […]
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Tags:Alan Pierson·Cargenie Hall·Cokboy·Contemporary composers·David T. Little·Dawn Upshaw·Dog Days·Here Comes Messiah!·Janice Silverman Rebibo·Lev Zhurbin·Matti Kovler·Niña Dances·Oceanic Verses·Osvaldo Golijov·Paola Prestini·Sophie Delphis·Tehila Goldstein·Zankel Hall
I just finished reading Sramana Mitra’s Entrepreneur Journeys: Bootstrapping: Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction, the second volume of her Entrepreneur Journeys series. Great title: Yes, small companies and mom-and-pop businesses are the very texture of this country (as they are all over the world), and some of them can be grown to a significant level and address […]
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Tags:Baul musicians·Boostrapping·Character arc·Dais·Dominique Trempont·Entrepreneur·Entrepreneur Journeys·Entrepreneurial tribe·Entrepreneurship·GigaOm·Glenburn Tea Estate·Golden Raft·Greg Gianforte·hi5·Himalaya Shipping·Intarka·Kathaka·Lars Dalgaard·Lava village in the Himalayas·Manoj Saxena·Om Malik·Rabindranath Tagore·Raising money for startups·Ramu Yalamanchi·RightNow·Sramana Mitra·SuccessFactors·Sundarbans·Uuma·Webify·William Carter·Zoomorama
Note: PSS Systems was acquired by IBM in October: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibm-acquires-pss-systems-104855574.html Expressions such as “seasoned entrepreneur” or “industry veteran” are so worn down to the thread that most people forget what they really mean. Deidre [sic] Paknad is definitely both. She is the CEO of PSS Systems (http://www.pss-systems.com), the company that created the legal information governance […]
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Tags:Altera·Castilleja·Certus·CGOC·Compliance Governance and Oversight Council·Consilium·Coppertone·CoVia Technologies·Daryoush Paknad·Deidre Paknad·Elmo Semiconductor·Great CEO·Legal information governance·Loyola Law School·Macintosh in 1984·Mizoon·Nth Orbit·PSS Systems·Sarbanes Oxley compliance·Schering Plough·Zinka·Zoe Paknad