Women Entrepreneurs
July 19, 2010
As this year’s college graduates desperately search for jobs, New York Times‘ op-ed columnist Thomas Friedman asserts that that the best gift they could be given is a position with a start-up
Category: Entrepreneurship
In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.
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Is That Unemployment or Opportunity Knocking?
June 21, 2010
Robert B. Reich, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former Secretary of Labor, wrote an interesting op-ed piece about the number of start-up companies formed
Optimists Make Better Prophets
June 7, 2010
Optimism is topic to which I have returned time and again since I started writing this blog (see, for example, posts entitled Optimism and Pessimism, In Praise of Optimism, and Optimism, Entrepreneurs,
A Window of Opportunity for Entrepreneurs
May 20, 2010
One of the columnists I regularly follow is Luke Johnson, who writes for the Financial Times. He also runs Risk Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and is chairman of the Royal
Immigration and Progress
April 9, 2010
Although the debate over health care reform has grabbed most of the political headlines in the United States over the past few months, immigration reform has also managed to get some press.
Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists
March 30, 2010
Entrepreneurs looking for capital and ventures capitalists looking for good ideas are natural partners; but not necessarily loving ones. Although entrepreneurs and venture capitalists would appear to be (as they say) a
Education and Training: Enabling the Developing World’s Future
February 18, 2010
In yesterday’s post entitled The Future Belongs to the Young, I promised to write a post about a series of articles published in the Financial Times about what is being done to
Entrepreneurism: Creating Value versus Making Bets
February 12, 2010
This is the final post in my week-long series about entrepreneurism. As an entrepreneur, you can understand my bias towards trumpeting the positive benefits that entrepreneurs can bring to a country’s economy.
What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur
February 9, 2010
Yesterday, I began a series of posts about entrepreneurship with one entitled Want to Be an Entrepreneur? Take A Test to See If You Have the Right Stuff. In that post, I indicated
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? Take A Test to See If You Have the Right Stuff
February 8, 2010
This is the first in a series of posts about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurism. As an entrepreneur myself, I’m obviously biased about how I view entrepreneurs as a group. Even before the Great
