Every Thursday morning, I coach five entrepreneurs with many more listening to the sessions. And like a parrot, I keep asking these entrepreneurs to validate their ideas. I give them a framework with which to do so. I give it to them ahead of time hoping they would use it and come prepared.
Intel excelled in bringing high-performance computing to the masses. Can it succeed in the wireless era? Read more in this week’s Forbes column, Intel In The Untethered Era.
According to a recent IDC report, Nokia (NYSE:NOK) is the world’s biggest converged mobile phone maker with about 38% share in Q4 2009. However, it has a poor presence in the U.S. market, which is dominated by RIM and Apple. Read the full article »
As I have written in column after column, there is a very serious crisis brewing for our youth. This recession has made it very difficult for young people – students and recent graduates – to find jobs and internships. Last summer, I received about 100 internship applications, and took about 25 on as unpaid interns. Some of them are still working with me.
This year, we have a great program in 1M/1M that can absorb a much larger number of interns – in the thousands, globally – because we have a team of 50 1M/1M ambassadors who can work with them and groom them as Internal Ambassadors (IAs). 1M/1M, as you know, is our initiative to help a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars in annual revenue, build a trillion dollars of global GDP, and create ten million jobs. Read the full article »
Sramana Mitra is offering this free online strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs looking to discuss positioning, financing, and other aspects of a startup venture. Up to 1,000 people can attend, but only the first five who register to pitch will be able to present their business ideas. All attendees are able to join in on the conversations via a live chat. This hour-long session will begin at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. Please note that the start time for those in India is now an hour earlier, 8:30 p.m., due to the change to Daylight Savings Time in the United States. We hope you will join us and let other entrepreneurs know about this roundtable. You can find more details and register here.
You have read my last Forbes Column, An Underused Tool For Job Recovery. With unemployment soaring, I discussed how incubators can help people move into self-employment–and create jobs.
We’ve also discussed the topic of why incubators fail at length here. One of the issues that came up in the incubator discussion as a cause for failure is: What is the right business model for an incubator?
This is what I invite you to discuss in this thread.
