UPDATE: Keynote to YouTube and keeping cool transitions
i made a step by step series of screenshots here of these notes here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/7601158/Uploading-Key… and http://www.slideshare.net/joshuascottpaul/uploa… Originally posted as a...
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Meeting Michael van Swaaij, Chairman (and former CEO) of Skype
On Monday this week our MBA class had the opportunity to hear Michael van Swaaij speak to our class. He is the current Chairman of Skype, having previously served as CEO of Skype and Chief Strategy...
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Kevin Roberts & his challenges
Kevin Roberts, the CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, is also the CEO-in-Residence at Judge Business School. He came in to talk to us recently about Winning with an MBA, which was particularly useful...
View ArticleCopying Y Combinator – WHY and HOW
[UPDATE]– I’ve written an update 1.5 years later on the original post: “Looking back – 1.5 years since ‘Copying Y Combinator'” Have you thought about starting a program like Y Combinator in your city?...
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A tale of two (entrepreneurial) cities
I got my bachelor’s degree (Aerospace Engineering) from the University of Michigan, which is located in the lovely town of Ann Arbor, Michigan (about a 45 minute drive from Detroit). As one of the top...
View ArticleA Marc Andreessen blog archive
I noticed a few weeks ago that Marc Andreessen had deleted virtually everything off his blog. The only thing that’s left is the post announcing the formation of his VC firm, Andreessen Horowitz. I’ve...
View ArticleThe Checklist Manifesto – A hugely important book
Back in 2007 I read a fascinating article called “The Checklist” written by Dr. Atul Gawande in the New Yorker. Atul Gawande is a practicing surgeon, MacArthur Fellow, Rhodes Scholar and professor at...
View ArticleWhat I struggle with every day…
Seth Godin truly nailed it on the head today with a short blog post titled “In and out“. That’s one of the most important decisions you’ll make today. How much time and effort should be spent on...
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$10 Billion
Ten years after the seed accelerator model was pioneered, Seed-DB has now identified over $10 billion that has been invested in accelerator graduates. Over 200 seed accelerator programs around the...
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$20 Billion – and a relaunch of Seed-DB
Just 11 years after Y Combinator funded the first handful of companies in the first seed accelerator, over $20 billion has been raised by accelerator graduates. For those keeping track at home, this...
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