Entries from August 2009
“We invest in people…” is a phrase that entrepreneurs hear often from VCs and employees from corporations. What does it mean? Hard to know – or maybe, the actual content of the sentence depends on who is speaking. OK, LinkedIn isn’t the whole spiel: For most people, you are your “background” and this “background” boils down […]
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Tags:Amita Paul·Delbourg-Delphis·Employers screening employee Facebook·Facebook·Job Profiling·Linkedin·MySpace·ObjectiveMarketer·Online Identity·Renee Weisman·Résumé & Background·Social Media·Social Media Screening·Social networking sites screening·Twitter·Twitter Poll
Written by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust is for everybody, including folks who think that they have already achieved the status of being “trust agents,” and who believe they know all the ropes and tricks of the social media business. I say this from […]
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Tags:Agent Zero·Alan Schaaf·Chris Brogan·Entrepreneurship·Internet Personas·Julien Smith·Leadership·Principle of the lever·Social Media and Customer Service·Social Media Marketing·Social Media Marketing Campaign·Trust Agent
About 40 students of the INSEAD business school from both the Singapore and the Fontainebleau campuses spent the week in Silicon Valley and attended various presentations and lectures, all remarkably coordinated by Dominique Trempont (left on the picture with three students, Mauricio from Colombia, Fawad from Pakistan and Philipp from Germany). I already spoke about INSEAD […]
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Tags:Agonia·Blogger·Catherine Margles·Dominique Trempont·El Sistema·Entrepreneurship·Entrepreneurship and Passion·Eric Benhamou·Evangelism·Everett Rogers·INSEAD·International Business School·José Antonio Abreu·Leadership·MBA program·Poetae nascuntur fiunt oratores·PyraLabs·startup·Success and Failures for Startups
In case you haven’t yet read Free: The Future of a Radical Price, by Chris Anderson, simply do it. I will be short as the book has been extensively discussed even though it came out only one month ago. “With the cost of distribution relentlessly driving toward zero, Chris Anderson has once again identified the next […]
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Tags:Chris Anderson·Entreneurship·Free: The Future of a Radical Price·Freemium·Pricing strategy·The Long Tail·Web economy
A few days ago, I had lunch with Chris Shipley. I remember being impressed by her when Stewart Alsop introduced her to me when she became the Executive Producer of DEMO. Very few women were likely to hold such a highly visible position in the high-tech industry in 1996 (and there may not be too […]
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Tags:Blurb·Chris Shipley·Dehillerin·DEMOletter·French Tech Tour·Glam·Guidewire Group·High-Tech Entrepreneur·Innovate!Europe·Leadership·Marc Benioff·Matt Marshall·Mike Sigal·Salesforce.com·Silicon Valley Ecosystem·Silicon Valley guru·Six Apart·startup·Stewart Alsop·VentureBeat·VMware·WebEx·Women in high-tech·Women-founded startups·Xfire