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How Companies Can Avoid Incrementalism 23 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
I now believe that entrepreneurship can be best understood as two seperate but interrelated processes: Design Thinking Business Model Design Thinking, popularized by the Stanford University Design ...
The Two Keys to Successfully Scaling a Startup 22 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
This post originally appeared in The Starting Gate, the Miami-Herald blog by Nancy Dahlberg on entrepreneurship and the SFL tech scene. Entrepreneurs who dream of starting a new business typically...
How to Be an Effective CEO 19 Aug 2013 | 04:35 pm
Brad Feld has a good post today, "Being a Great CEO", which references Fred Wilson's thinking on the same subject-"What a CEO Does". These two experienced VCs conclude that great CEOs do three things:...
Ex-Googler Venture in Personalized Learning--Gooru 15 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm
Seems to be the week for good articles from Forbes. Today's story,"This Guy Left Google To Put The Power Of Big Data Into Small Classrooms", actually covers the much more important subject of persona...
How to Manage the Uncertainty of Design 14 Aug 2013 | 07:55 pm
Tim Brown, the CEO of Ideo, a very good design firm based in San Francisco, has an interesting post on LinkedIn today,"How to Sail Through Creative Uncertainty". Uncertainty arises frequently when the...
Miami Tech Scene 12 Aug 2013 | 08:15 pm
My friend, John Menezes (@John_Menezes), is one of the best sources of tweets that I receive. He covers an eclectic range of subjects that include tech, the military, education and startups. His selec...
CEO Succession--Promote from Within 12 Aug 2013 | 07:35 pm
The saga of JC Penney and the ouster of CEO Ron Johnson has played out publicly in the press. In many ways it is the same story as the CEO replacements at HP and Home Depot, to name just a few example...
Why I Teach-II 5 Aug 2013 | 05:56 pm
I have written several times on why I teach. My favorite post is "A Proud Professor" about a student that went to Rwanda to work with children. A former student wrote to me over the weekend. He said ...
China Largest Development Lender in Latin America? 2 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm
McKinsey Quarterly has a special issue on China with an executuve summary, "Ten Forces Forging China's Future". Section 8, "Financier to the World?", includes an interesting snipet: "Since 2009, Chin...
Starting Gate--The Miami Entrepreneurship and Tech Scene 2 Aug 2013 | 06:22 pm
The Starting Gate is a blog sponsored by the Miami Herald and managed by Nancy Dahlberg, South Florida's leading writer on tech, startups and related themes. Nancy has been following the entrepreneurs...
