The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 7)

SM: If I were planning a trip to Ireland, where would Cuil take me?

TC: I would hope we would take you to the more interesting places and to the path less traveled. My parents run a bed and breakfast north of Dublin. Everyone lands at Dublin and goes south. >>>

Yahoo! Names New CEO

Over the weekend, it became clear that Carol Bartz really wanted the Yahoo! CEO job, and that the board was willing to give it to her. Today, the appointment became official.

Carol Bartz is the no-bullshit, down-to-earth, highly successful former CEO of Autodesk. Her story in Silicon Valley is a lesson in career management: boards of Intel, Cisco, Cadence, etc. I’ve met her, and found her to be simple, direct, unencumbered by ego or need for adulation. We invited her to a fireside chat once at the MIT Club of Northern California’s Leadership Development program. She candidly shared many intimate details of her journey, including her battle with breast cancer soon after being named to the Autodesk CEO job. In a nutshell, I respect her greatly. >>>

New Facebook Group

Readers, we have a new Facebook group to continue incomplete discussions following all the different events we’re now participating in. Please feel free to start discussions on various topics related to entrepreneurship, and hopefully, we can help one another out.

Deal Radar 2009: AdvancedMD

AdvancedMD, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a medical billing software provider. The company, formerly known as Perfect Practice, was launched in 2002. Its SaaS-based medical office management platform aims to offer a complete solution for billing, scheduling and practice management. >>>

The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 6)

SM: That is your hypothesis, which is fine. I think there are vertical search cases which have broken out of the pack and been very successful.

TC: I do think vertical search works. There is no question that in places people can manage to get themselves established as an idea. >>>

Hachette India To Publish EJ1

By Maureen Kelly

I’m pleased to announce that Hachette India will be publishing Sramana’s book, “Entrepreneur Journeys”, in February.

Soon after the book was published in October with Amazon’s BookSurge division, the online buzz and word of mouth about Sramana and her book caught the attention of editors at Hachette. Her controversial Forbes article, How Amazon Could Change Publishing, and the follow-up piece about her own publishing experiment, My Adventure With Amazon, forecast the crisis now facing many traditional publishing houses. >>>

Simply Hired Entrepreneurship Forum on Jan 14

Simply Hired Presents: Sramana Mitra’s Entrepreneurship Forum Online

Sign Up for a FREE Entrepreneurship Forum with Sramana Mitra, author of Entrepreneur Journeys.

Take your career into your own hands! While looking for a job, learn to create a job. Simply Hired (www.SimplyHired.com), the largest job search engine, is partnering with leading entrepreneur and Forbes columnist Sramana Mitra to bring you an entrepreneurship forum online—using Dimdim’s open source web conferencing platform. During the 60-minute session, Sramana will address questions from aspiring entrepreneurs. She will answer as many questions as time permits. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: GreenRoad

GreenRoad’s focus is to improve driver safety and significantly reduce crashes and fuel consumption. The company uses technology to change human behavior, encouraging people to make better choices about their driving. GreenRoad’s flagship service is the GreenRoad Safety Center, which combines in-vehicle technology with integrated web applications that rate driving skills and behavior, train drivers in real time by providing feedback as they drive, and sustain behavior improvement through continuous reinforcement. >>>