William Sahlman of Harvard Business School, speaking at the Stanford University eCorner about the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs. Not enough is said about this topic.
Characteristics of Entrepreneurshttp://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1806
Very valuable words from Guy Kawasaki. Tom Byers of KPCB commented on this video, that he has consistently used it for the last 5 years in his entrepreneurship classes at Stanford.
We are all indebted to Intel’s great scientist, Dov Frohman, for the development of the original “floating gate” technology, which made possible EPROM‘s, electronically programmable read only memories, and later E2PROM, electrically erasable and programmable memory, now known as “flash memory.” As with Gordon Moore’s Law, physics has discovered the next generation of “flash”, which will also dramatically reduce the energy required to operate flash memory. This dramatic reduction in required energy opens doors to new applications, and reduced demand on battery technology, which is also pushing at its limits. The net net of all this are potentially bright prospects for mobile devices and their capabilities well into the future.
Meanwhile, Moore’s Law is being pushed by developments in quantum computing which hold the potential to further extend Moore’s Law.
Somebody bring me some garlic fries and a Heineken. Sports writers all over America will be writing about this game tonight. A historic performance by the San Francisco Giants. How I wish I had been there.
Tonight the “Kung Fu Panda”, Pablo Sandoval steps up to hit 3 Home Runs, a single, and 4 RBI’s in a World Series game, joining a very select club: Babe Ruth, Reggie Jackson, and Albert Pujols.
We watched Tim Lincecum play like the Cy Young Award winner that he is and get 5 K’s. 1st time one Cy Young Award winner has relieved another Cy Young winner.
Marco Scutaro maintains his NLCS MVP form and Barry Zito is very hot again. The stats on the Giants over the last three games alone are absolutely staggering. Barry Zito was like Kevin Costner in “For Love of the Game.” Even Fox Sports is commenting on the return of Zito’s magic in the playoffs. He wants to prove he’s got more to give. For the first time in memory the fans are chanting “Barry, Barry, Barry” but not the asshole you may remember.
Orel Hersheiser on Fox Sports calls AT&T Park fans the loudest in baseball. The fun at AT&T Park is extraordinary, with the music of Steve Perry and Journey reminding us of his “City by the Bay,” Michael Franti and Spearhead singing a SF Giants/Willie /Mays version of their song “Say Hey,” a bit of Boz Scaggs “City Lights,” and every game ends with Tony Bennett.
This has been a great ride.
The much anticipated SSD (solid state drive) revolution appears to be building a head of steam… This very interesting article from Wired however, does not say much about the price/cost crossover, which is key.. It is likely that the architecture of data center servers enables use of SSD (non-volatile flash memory), to speed performance without completely abandoning HDD….yet.
Another key data center development are very low power (5 watt) datacenter servers from companies like Calxeda in Austin, TX. www.calxeda.com
These technologies and trends in data center management offer a vision of a green data center future, compared to the recent New York Times and Gizmodo articles on data center energy and reliability issues.
With Microsoft, we are witnessing the incredibly accelerated life cycle of companies in high tech.. Innovate constantly or die. Everything seems to ride on Windows 8, but what works for mobile may not work for large corporations looking only for a simple upgrade to their corporate desktops and laptops.
Wired Quote: ” after years asleep at the wheel, Ballmer is telling us that Microsoft is finally waking up” …Yeah right…Microsoft, Facebook, Groupon, Zynga and all the rest. We are witnessing an extraordinary tectonic shift in high tech. What is even more extraordinary is the failure of some prominent people to recognize it and accept
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/ballmers-secret-message-were-making-microsoft-cool/
This debate about Silicon Valley goes on ad nauseum, and in this Venture Beat post.
My answer to this guy is “it depends,” big time. It depends on a lot of factors, including the entrepreneur him or herself, access to money, brains, a “cluster” as this guy found in Austin Texas, well-known for not only IT management, as he points out. The University of Texas at Austin is key, and other companies there include IBM, AMD and Intel. Boulder, Colorado, northern Virginia, NYC, Boston, a bit in greater L.A./Orange County, and definitely San Diego are all happening, but in different segments, and in different ways.. Even very small communities like Walla Walla Washington have found ways to have an innovative economy…But there is still nothing quite like the breadth and scope of Silicon Valley, and it is unlikely to change anytime soon.
I just had a long talk Friday evening with a good friend, a consultant, as she was driving home in heavy SV commute traffic, who has worked in the Valley for her entire career. It still is a magnet and she has more clients than she can handle, but the company profiles are changing. Hollywood has moved north and not just Pixar stuff. Digital sound editing for some reason is in Daly City and South San Francisco. I remember one Canadian entrepreneur telling me how he felt the vibe in northern California. and it was a huge factor for him. Kelowna was dead, dead, dead. Vancouver was bit better, but SV was best for the buzz of ideas.
Well, what to do they say when you start believing your own BS? Does Zuckerberg actually believe investors will see him as the new Gordon Moore of social media? Seems to me that Zuckerberg needs to eat more of his own dog food, as they used to say at Microsoft. It would help Zuck to “focus his mind” on how his company is doing these days, rather than making outlandish, mathematically improbable projections, name dropping and comparing himself to Gordon Moore.
From Gizmodo:
” If you thought people were already sharing way too much on social networks, you’re in for a rough future. At least, that’s what your buddy Mark Zuckerberg thinks, and it’s probably safe to say he’s might know what he’s talking about.
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