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- From Peter Chernin to Mark Cuban: Picking Jerry Yang's Replacement
- So, Peter Chernin's name keeps coming up as a potential replacement for Jerry Yang as CEO of Yahoo. Chernin's the always-cool president of News Corp. Under Rupert Murdoch and Chernin, the old-line publisher and broadcaster has shown serious savvy about new media. People...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Mark Cuban, Peter Chernin, Corporate Communications, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Marketing, Management, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Challenging Silicon Valley to put poverty into a museum . . .
- I'm not washing my right hand for a while because I used it to shake the hand of Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a person that I've held in the highest regard for many years. Mr Yunus gave the keynote speech at the Tech Museum's Tech...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Poverty, Bangladesh, Mr., Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, Grameen Loan, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Venture Capitalists: We're still open for business
- At a VentureBeat conference on managing through the economic downturn, a panel of venture capitalists painted a gloomy picture for the economy overall. But they're still making investments, they said. Rafe Needleman covered the event and got reactions from experienced and new entrepreneurs.
- Tags: Venture Capital, Investment, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, News, Rafe Needleman, Webware, Venturebeat, entrepreneur, venture capital
- Videos 2008-11-07
- It's up to tech to save the world
- Larry Brilliant, executive director of Google's philanthropic arm, says the IT industry has a major role to play in tackling climate change and global disease. The technology industry can play a major role in tackling global disease and battling climate change, according to the executive...
- Tags: Google Inc., Disease, Sales Force Management, Vertical Industries, Entrepreneurship, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Human Resources, Tim Ferguson silicon.com, Google, Dreamforce, WHO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, charity
- News items 2008-11-07
- Strike Positive (zip)
- Strike Positive is a beautifully designed contact and campaign management tool for small businesses, sales people and entrepreneurs. Powerful yet easy to get to know, Strike Positive helps you organize, manage, market-to and track the organisations and contacts you do business with. This version is the first release on CNET...
- Tags: Sales People, Strike Positive, Entrepreneurship, Sales Strategy, Management, Sales
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- How will Silicon Valley startups be affected by a downturn?
- Things were tough enough for startups in Silicon Valley before the credit crunch financial crisis because of extremely few exit strategies. There are almost no IPOs, and the M&A market has slowed to a trickle. The latest Wall Street crisis isn't helping. Here is a some...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, IPO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Student Technology Day: what it's all about
- It's not often I can say this but already, I'm surrounded in a room of 300 odd fashion unconscious, sweaty, unattractive idiots. Nevertheless, it's quite fun listening to some of the banter going around and about the place; some people work as interns at Microsoft, some at IBM and a...
- Tags: Student, Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Public Relations, Productivity, Entrepreneurship, Virtualization, Game Players, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- How is the credit crunch impacting your economy?
- The economy is mired in a slowdown, Wall Street allegedly needs a bailout and stocks are on a roller coaster that is mostly headed down. What's less clear is how all of this turmoil is impacting the tech industry and your personal economy. A simple question was...
- Tags: Wall Street, Economy, Consulting Client, Deals, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Outsourcing, Financial Services, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Grafting American attitudes on European open source
- Entrepreneurship is easy to over-think. I have known many entrepreneurs in my years as a reporter and it's really an art, an instinct. One which starts by putting yourself into the mind of the customer, and seeing things from their point of view. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Open Source, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-27
- Google's insightful looking glass
- A few weeks ago I got a heads-up from Google's PR about their new search tool. Dubbed Google Insights for Search, it allows you to apply parameters to search for what other people are searching. Sounds a little strange and it did take a while for my...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web Site Development, Public Relations, Productivity, Web Technology, Entrepreneurship, Search, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50
- Last year, TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year, it's even bigger. by Andy Smith
- Tags: TechCrunch, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Andy Smith, entrepreneurs, TechCruch, bloggers
- Image galleries 2008-09-08
- TechCrunch50: Day 1
- When Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis team up on a project, the webs are bound to be shaken up. Last year, their conference TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Marissa Mayer, Entrepreneur, Video, MySpace, Qik, Meghan, Arrington, Vitamin Water, Calcanis, Mahalo, Blueprint Multicore, OpenTrace, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Microsoft Student Technology Day UK
- Note Wednesday 1st October 2008, a little over 3 weeks away from today in your diary. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and a whole load of influential partners and companies will be in London for the Microsoft Student Technology Day. It's a day about and for students,...
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurship, Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Silicon Valley's gender gap
- I recently spoke with Judy Estrin, one of Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs, about her new book "Closing the Innovation Gap." But what about closing the gender gap? I asked her why there are so few, and now fewer--with Diane Greene out as CEO of VMware--women in senior...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Gender And Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Silicon Valley's Judy Estrin warns we are running out of innovation
- I recently met with Judy Estrin, a former CTO at Cisco, and one of Silicon Valley's top serial entrepreneurs. Since the dotcom bubble burst she has been concerned that Silicon Valley has not been investing enough in startups pioneering innovative technologies. She warns that we are living...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Innovation, Leadership, Research & Development, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Finance, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Small Brazilian Businesses Get Big Help With Affordable Software + Services Solution
- SupplySystems, based in São Paulo, Brazil, is a Microsoft Certified Partner that specializes in providing mobile and supply system technology solutions. SupplySystems recognized a need to serve the millions of individual entrepreneurs and small businesses that could not afford access to a national database that identifies high-risk customers. SupplySystems built...
- Tags: Software, Small Business, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurship, Management
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- The real power of the PC
- After selling his company, Brazilian entrepreneur Rodrigo Baggio turned his attention to using technology as a means of economic empowerment for the underprivileged.
- Tags: Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Management, News, ina fried, south america, microsoft, google, pc, schools
- Videos 2008-08-27
- Software that Makes Your Company More Entrepenuerial
- A class of social software is helping companies become more entrepreneurial and none a moment too soon. In a survey of 300 business executives, Interminds LLC, a management consultancy, found that nearly three quarters (71 percent) of business executives indicated that...
- Tags: Innovation, Software, Entrepreneurial, Intermind Corp., Business Executive, Entrepreneurship, Branding, Management, Marketing, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- VCs a glum bunch over economy, lack of exits
- Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index the second quarter registered a reading of 3.07 on a 5 point scale, down from the...
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Confidence, VC, Mark Cannice, Venture Capital, IPO, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Financing Startups, Financial Services, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Domain Fetcher (msi)
- Since 2003, Domain Fetcher has helped domain resellers and entrepreneurs to make the most of their efforts in searching for expired and unregistered domain names. No more monthly fees for similar browser based services. No more wasted hours typing in name after name hoping to find good ones to register....
- Tags: Domain Fetcher, Entrepreneurship, Domain Names, Web Browsers, Management, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-07-08
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