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Forbes Column 2009: China’s Innovation Advantage

Posted on Friday, Aug 7th 2009

This week’s Zero In explains why China may outshine the US in some domains. Read China’s Innovation Advantage.

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The Long Road to Edutainment: Tabula Digita CEO Ntiedo Etuk (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 6th 2009

SM: Where did you go to work after Columbia? NE: Citigroup, which is where my H-1B [visa] was from. I worked in an R&D group they set up called the Payment Innovation Group. It was challenged to come up with $100- million profit opportunities. I did that for about a year as part of their

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Murdoch Wants To Charge For Quality Content

Posted on Thursday, Aug 6th 2009

Earlier this week, I wrote Media Industry: The Answer is Quality. Today, Murdoch is saying essentially the same thing: “Quality journalism is not cheap and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalizing its ability to produce good reporting. … We can be platform-neutral but never free.” And Chase Carey chimed in on

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Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Buck The Trend, Back Yourself

Posted on Thursday, Aug 6th 2009

From Laurel Delaney’s post titled “The Art of Bootstrapping” from her blog, Escape From Corporate America: “Sramana Mitra showcases a dozen entrepreneurs and lessons they learned while bootstrapping their way to success in her latest book, Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction.

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The Long Road to Edutainment: Tabula Digita CEO Ntiedo Etuk (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 5th 2009

Ntiedo Etuk is a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Electrical Engineering. He also holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he was a Beta Gamma Sigma graduate. He has managed the creation, implementation and analysis of various consumer products for Bank One and Citigroup. With Citigroup he was selected to work directly with

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Win Free E-Book Copy Of EJ2: Bootstrapping, Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 5th 2009

We have two more free coupons for an e-book copy of “Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume Two: Bootstrapping: Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction”. The first two readers who write a review of “Entrepreneur Journeys: Volume One” on Amazon AND send a tweet to @sfrocks (you can tweet @sfrocks by changing your status on Twitter to “@sfrocks Amazon review

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Deal Radar 2009: Meteor Solutions

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 5th 2009

As the traditional ad market falters, social media appears poised to step up and claim part of the void left by print advertising sales. Meteor Solutions offers a software platform that allows brands to measure and increase the effectiveness of their social media marketing program. With the company’s patented software, customers can measure, manage, and

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Venture Capital in China: David Chao of DCM (Part 7)

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 4th 2009

SM: Was there something I should have asked you but didn’t? DC: I would like to add some thoughts on innovation. I think in certain cleantech markets, China might be ahead of the curve. There are fewer regulations in China. If Menlo Park were going to put a smart energy grid storage in place, residents would most

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