Entries from October 2010
By Marylene Delbourg-Delphis @mddelphis Last Friday, Marian Scheuer Sofaer invited a few friends for a breakfast in Palo Alto, CA with Gloria Feldt, who presented her now famous book, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power. A great intimate setting early in the morning that did not diminish Gloria’s energy and determination to […]
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Tags:Ada Byron Lovelace·Birth control·Blue Stockings Society·Bluestocking·Elizabeth Montegu·Feminist movement·Gloria Feldt·Leadership·Margaret Sanger·Marian Sofaer·No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power·Planned Parenthood·Power over·Power to·Women at the top·Women in business·Women in high-tech
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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Tags:Brad Feld·Business mentor·David Cohen·Do more faster·Entrepreneurship·Everythingitis·Guy Kawasaki·Leadership·Reality Check·startup·Steve Blank·Techstars·The Art of the Start·The Four Steps to the Epiphany
One day, Russell Willis Taylor, the President and CEO of National Arts Strategies told me this: “Many towns look alike. There is a Starbucks at every corner. There is a Walmart in every town. But you know where you are by the art that is being enjoyed and created — that is what gives us […]
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Tags:Arts in the City·Capitol Hill Arts Center·CHAC·Creative economy·Deep Springs College·innovation·Leadership·Matthew Kwatinetz·Russell Willis Taylor·Urban Arts Entrepreneur
By Marylene Delbourg-Delphis @mddelphis My friend Louis Montagne, the founder CEO of Bearstech and af83, recently invited me to speak to entrepreneurs at La Cantine, a great coworking space that is part of Silicon Sentier, passage des Panoramas, a beautiful roofed commercial passageway that was build around 1800. I was impressed by the openness of […]
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Tags:af83·Bearstech·Disruptive technology·Entrepreneurship·La Cantine·Leadership·Louis Montagne·museum of curios·Product creation process·Silicon Sentier