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- Visionary 2009: Jim Clark on the importance of Stanford university to Silicon Valley
- Jim Clark, co-founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape was one of four winners of the SDForum 2009 Visionary Awards. He spoke about his earlier life and how he was trying to get out of Texas, then trying to get out of the navy. He also spoke about the importance...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Stanford University, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Visionary 2009: Kay Koplovitz - more women entrepreneurs
- Kay Koplovitz calls for more women entrepreneurs during her acceptance speech at the SDForum visionary awards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGRyvhsP7Uk Her Bio: Kay Koplovitz is currently a principal of...
- Tags: Women, Board, Gender And Diversity, Venture Capital, Corporate Governance, Investment, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Finance, Financing Startups, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Creative destruction in Canada
- Canada is much better off nurturing entrepreneurs than trying to bail out the past. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Canada, Entrepreneurship, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- MySpace cuts 30% of workforce; Says it was bloated
- MySpace said it would cut its staff by 30 percent in an effort to become  "a more innovative, efficient, and entrepreneurial business." When the cuts are over, MySpace will have about 1,000 employees. MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta said in a statement Techmeme: ...
- Tags: MySpace, Workforce, Entrepreneurship, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- The many faces of small business and open source
- Legacy businesses may be where the money is, but it's not where the growth is. Go for the real little guys, and the entrepreneurs, first. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Small Business, Entrepreneurship, Open Source, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- IndustryPlayer 6.5 build 650 (Windows)
- IndustryPlayer is a business simulation game which realistically reproduces all aspects of a corporation's business, including it's relationships with the workforce, suppliers, competitors, consumers, banks, insurers, and the government. The simulation is based on real world economic models and genuine industry data. Players take the role of an entrepreneur and...
- Tags: Tycoon Systems, Microsoft Windows, IndustryPlayer, Strategic Management, Government, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2009-06-14
- Photos: Technologizer Tweetup
- Last night, uber geek and massively popular entrepreneur Harry McCracken hosted a tweetup for his site Technologizer in Burlingame, Calif. at the Nectar Wine Lounge. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Entrepreneur, Photograph, Geek, Entrepreneurship, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Preventing the old coffee-in-the-keyboard trick
- A while back, I had a rather unpleasant experience with coffee leaping out of a mug and attacking the keyboard of a new Dell computer (see the string of posts beginning with The old coffee-in-the-keyboard trick). Darby Green, an entrepreneur in New Zealand, discovered the series of...
- Tags: Post, Keyboards, Entrepreneurship, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Management, Internet, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Churchill Club: Uber Entrepreneur: An Evening with Elon Musk
- In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla Motors; CEO & CTO, SpaceX; Chairman, SolarCity, talks entrepreneurship. By the age of 12 Elon Musk had sold his first commercial software, a space game called Blaster. Sixteen years later he sold his first company, Zip2, to...
- Tags: Developer, Stock, Entrepreneur, CEO, Podcasts, Entrepreneurship, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- Clinton has new tech advisor but State-driven projects will remain ineffective
- Let me offer this background before discussing the arrival of Alec Ross as a techno-diplomat at State. In 2004, I spent a couple months in Uganda, putting together the Uganda Digital Bookmobile. Inspired by the Internet Archive's Bookmobile Brad deGraf and I obtained funding from the World...
- Tags: Education, Advisor, Technology, Clinton, Government, Vertical Industries, Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Selling software as hardware the Branserv way
- Entrepreneur Alex Pyatetsky wants to get busy with an idea he calls Branserv. It's not a cereal, and it's not an advertising outfit. It's an idea to take your software, turn it into hardware, and sell it to the world. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Software, Idea, Hardware, Entrepreneurship, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- Does IBM have a brand for the cloud?
- Today the name Charlie Chaplin evokes talent, individualism, idiosyncracy, all the attributes today's entrepreneurs and decision makers want to be known for. So put Chaplin's movies in IBM's cloud, bring Downey out to represent the man in your ads, and it may be IBM does indeed have a brand it...
- Tags: Brand, IBM Corp., Cloud, Branding, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
- Could Cloudera become the open source Asia?
- Those of you old enough to remember the original Apple Macintosh may also remember the "super-group" known as Asia. The group became notorious for its ego battles, forming, breaking up, and reforming until it became something of a joke. (To the right is the present line-up for...
- Tags: Apache Hadoop, Blog, Asia, Cloudera, Amr Awadallah, Hammerbacher, Blogging, Entrepreneurship, Open Source, Internet, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- Failure in Silicon Valley and the guild of entrepreneurs
- Here is the second part of my conversation with Silicon Valley veteran Bill Coleman. The first part is here: How will the recession affect Silicon Valley? Mr Coleman is optimistic about Silicon Valley's long term prospects but he is pessimistic about the current situation. "These days...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Young Entrepreneurs Live Up to Their Potential, Use Technology to Grow by 100 Percent
- For more than ten years, JM Web Designs has relied on Microsoft solutions to help it mature from a two-person operation founded by 14-year-old entrepreneurs into a robust business with 17 employees and 250 customers. To keep growing as a company, JM Web Designs upgraded to Windows Vista, Windows Mobile...
- Tags: Entrepreneur, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurship, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Wireless And Mobility, Management, Software
- Case studies 2009-03-03
- Obsessed TV showcases the personalities of entrepreneurs
- Whatever web legend/genius Gary Vaynerchuk touches usually turns to gold. Well, it usually turns to fire for a split second before turning to gold because of the amount of passion involved. This time he's teamed up with TV personality Samantha Ettus. She will...
- Tags: Web, Entrepreneur, Oprah Winfrey, Episode 1, Entrepreneurship, Channel Management, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Management, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- A mashup of Twitter and Wikipedia — 140pedia.com
- In the spirit of brevity, I will keep this short. Ben Huh, micro comic and ultra web entrepreneur, has built a new site. Very cool idea. Thoughts? by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Twitter, Wikipedia, Mashup, Wiki, Entrepreneurship, Collaboration, Online Communications, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- SOA 2009: Do we need architects or firefighters?
- ZDNet blogging colleague Ian Finley just posted an interesting question that reflects ever-shifting priorities in today's rough-and-tumble economy: "When the building's on fire, who calls an architect? ...No one does. They call the fire department." He advises enterprise architects and vendors alike to put down their plans and ESBs, put...
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Information Technology, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Entrepreneurship, Web Services, Y2K, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-02-21
- The gigantic opportunity of mHealth
- The aim is to create scalable, sustainable and standardized projects, meaning lower costs, more uniformity, and faster take-up. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Mark Cuban as a transparent VC
- If Cuban can scare someone who has real entrepreneurial skills out of the woodwork with his proposal, I will be pleasantly surprised. It will also say volumes about where we are in the economic cycle, because entrepreneurs who can execute their ideas are my real heroes. And if there's no...
- Tags: Entrepreneur, Mark Cuban, Entrepreneurship, Open Source, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-11

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