November 13 Brainstorming With The Indian Media on Entrepreneurship Development

It was perfectly worthwhile to wake up at 3:30 a.m. and head to Cisco’s telepresence room in Santa Clara this morning at the crack of dawn. What followed was an animated discussion with friends – old and new – in the Indian media. For me, above and beyond everything else, it was great fun brainstorming with a group of people who care about entrepreneurship, who each have their circles of influence, and have been thinking about the entrepreneurship development issue from various perspectives. >>>

Wireless Carrier Roundup

There has been a buzz of activity in the wireless market with several Android phones being launched, including the Droid by Motorola on Verizon. Since the launch of the iPhone, AT&T has been increasing its subscriber base and Verizon has managed to keep up with the competition. However, Sprint and T-Mobile are finding it hard to hold on to their customers, and the gap between them and the top two has been increasing at an alarming rate. >>>

Forbes Column 2009: India’s Next Celebrities

This is what I intend to discuss with the Indian media today, read my Zero In column for this week: India’s Next Celebrities. I have to wake up at 3:30 a.m. tomorrow and go to Cisco’s Telepresence center in Santa Clara to meet with the Indian media in five Indian cities: Bangalore, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai, and Hyderabad. I will report back on the session when I get back. Stay tuned!

Leading Corporate Innovation: HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee (Part 2)

SM: What did Shane articulate to you regarding HP’s vision? At one point HP was heavy on innovation.

PB: I related that I had seen numerous corporate research labs across the past 30 years. I had sent my graduates to Bell Labs. I had seen how many of the corporate research labs were going through the trade-off of applied research and the short-term business aspect of that research against the need to do long-term, fundamental research. I related to Shane that an organization like HP labs needed to strike a balance and that I would abide by that philosophy if I came to HP Labs. >>>

BlogTalkRadio Show On Positioning

Folks, all those of you who are entrepreneurs, do me a favor, and please, please listen to this radio show.

November 12 Roundtable Recording

Today’s roundtable was excellent. Some of the presenters had done more advanced preparation, enabling me to take the conversation to a higher level. Have a look, and I strongly encourage all of you to prepare better for the discussions to get more out of them. Use the appendix of EJ3 for this purpose, as well as the books. The next roundtable will be on December 10.

Also, tonight, I will be interviewed live on the Blog Business Success Radio program at 8 p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST. You can listen and call-in from here. I am going to discuss Positioning in depth with Wayne Hurlbert’s the show’s host.

Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: “Men can do what men have done.”

Thomas Duff posted an excellent review of Positioning by Sramana Mitra on his Duffbert’s Random Musings blog:

“I enjoy the way that Mitra has structured the books in the Entrepreneur Journeys series. Hearing the successes and failures coming straight from those who lived them adds a human element to the information that is often lacking from other business books.  It also allows the interviewees to share little pearls of wisdom that they were given as they grew up. >>>

Roundtable starting in 15 minutes

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