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Cleanteach: Can David Learn to Love Goliath
We are seeing a shift from cleantech-focused venture capitalism to cleantech-oriented M&A, accelerated by the fact that the downturn has ensured there are "a lot of cheap assets on the chopping block."
There are many reasons why this is happening, but Parker saw the take-off point as 2005, when both General Electric and Walmart switched on to sustainability. Traveling around Silicon Valley last week, I heard the David vs. Goliath story over and again, but in surprisingly different versions.
Fast Company
- Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Why You Should Start a Company in... New Orleans
After the devastating hurricane of 2005, New Orleans definitely had a lot of itches.
We dealt with our knockout blow in 2005 and the people here literally have rebuilt and re-imagined the city. Through the downturn, through the recession, they've had tremendous success as some of the banks and some of the companies with real problems turn to them. It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options.
Fast Company
- Friday, March 5, 2010
Never Mind the Valley: Here's New York City
The NY Tech Meetup, which began with a small group in the back offices of Meetup in 2005, now holds monthly sessions and has exploded to include over 10,000 members.
Some wonder whether New York's critical mass is higher than that of Silicon Valley, where innovation has seen a slight downturn coupled with significant job loss. Known by many as The Big Apple, and by some in the tech scene as Silicon Alley, New York City has been an international hub for media, art and business for decades. More recently New York has ebbed and flowed with the success and failures of the Internet
ReadWriteWeb
- Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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TechStars Now Accepting Applications For Its Class of 2009
A few of its companies have also been successful at raising money since the economic downturn, including artisan-food market Foodzie , which closed a round in December, and group dating site Ignighter , which raised $1.2 Other startup incubators include DreamIt Ventures and the well-known Y Combinator program, which was founded in 2005 and now has funded well over 100 companies.
TechStars , a startup incubator that offers mentorship along with a relatively modest amount of seed funding, has begun accepting applications for the third year of its program. Interested
TechCrunch
- Monday, January 19, 2009
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The Once and Future MBA
Of course the public conversation about the MBA--its meaning, its value, its role in the global downturn--is intensifying. How Business Schools Lost Their Way , from 2005, in which Warren Bennis and James O'Toole state bluntly that B-schools are on the wrong track. It's Time to Make
Management As of 2:01 Monday afternoon, the New York Times website listed " Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools? " as its most e-mailed article.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, March 16, 2009
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The Long View Versus the Short View
And yet, this speed-addicted "now" generation has glimpsed what corporate leaders around the world seem to be missing in the fog of this downturn.
In 2005, we had very few believers in the potential of integrated services by outsourcing. The current downturn has meant a worldwide hiring freeze. It has been in the air for some time now, this all talk around the fast food generation — or the Facebook Generation as Gary Hamel prefers to term the Generation Y — and its so-called incessant need to live in the moment.
The importance of savouring the moment
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, June 1, 2009
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Launch On TechCrunch, Get Bought By Google
I still love the story of Writely , a product we wrote about way back in 2005 when TechCrunch was just a little tike.
It’s also the case that many big companies are started during downturns and benefit from the added focus and discipline that’s necessary. The company got a lot of attention as one of the first Ajax-powered “online Word” products. An acquisition by Google came just a few months later, and Writely formed the foundation for what is now Google Docs.
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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Alibaba Turns 10 – Aims To Create 100 Million Jobs, Employ 10 Million People
Since 2005, Yahoo! Not without reason, Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma was one of the first to recognize the economic downturn in February last year, when he predicted “a though (economic) winter is coming , dark clouds are forming and the thunder is coming closer” during the annual Alibaba all-employee conference. “Today, The platform was established in 2005 as a joint venture between Global Sources and eBay. This is a guest post by Shanghai-based entrepreneur George Godula. His company Web2Asia partners with Western Internet companies for market entry
TechCrunch
- Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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Never Mind the Valley: Here's New York City
The NY Tech Meetup, which began with a small group in the back offices of Meetup in 2005, now holds monthly sessions and has exploded to include over 10,000 members.
Some wonder whether New York's critical mass is higher than that of Silicon Valley, where innovation has seen a slight downturn coupled with significant job loss. Known by many as The Big Apple, and by some in the tech scene as Silicon Alley, New York City has been an international hub for media, art and business for decades. More recently New York has ebbed and flowed with the success and failures of the Internet
ReadWriteWeb
- Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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Patently Alarmist — What's Really Hobbling U.S. Innovation
Yet history shows dips in patent filings are natural responses to economic downturns. months in 2005. U.S. patent filings likely will decline this year for the first time since 1996, according to a government report, fueling more handwringing about the fate of American innovation .
David Kappos, the former IBMer now in charge of the U.S.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, December 17, 2009
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Why You Should Start a Company in... New Orleans
After the devastating hurricane of 2005, New Orleans definitely had a lot of itches.
We dealt with our knockout blow in 2005 and the people here literally have rebuilt and re-imagined the city. Through the downturn, through the recession, they've had tremendous success as some of the banks and some of the companies with real problems turn to them. It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options.
Fast Company
- Friday, March 5, 2010
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Medical Tourism Drops 14%--Can It Survive the Economy?
But now the economic downturn, and health-care reform, is taking a toll on the once-booming industry. And as the number of foreign medical sites approved by the Joint Commission International (the health-care industry's official accreditation institution) has increased from 76 to more than 220 since 2005, that growth doesn't seem unreasonable.
Medical tourism--foreigners traveling to India or Thailand for procedures that would cost an arm and a leg in their home countries--has made for great segments on 60 Minutes and even magazine features . The number of Americans traveling
Fast Company
- Thursday, December 3, 2009
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Marissa Mayer On Charlie Rose: The Future Of Google, Future Of Search
Somebody said, I think this was business week in 2005 said, “Her title belies her power and influences [unintelligible] of innovation. And so we see that type of balance overall in our advertiser base, and of course an overall downturn affects everyone.
Charlie Rose, who’s been focusing lately on Silicon Valley personalities, interviewed Google Vice President Marissa Mayer last night. In a long and broad ranging discussion, Marissa talks about the product development cycle at Google as well as the future of search and other key areas of technology.
TechCrunch
- Friday, March 6, 2009
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