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
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.
We are waiting to see how Harper‘s $400M very modest gesture to Canadian innovation will be invested, by whom, and how. We have had so many years stealing from Canada’s future, that one could easily claim that it is a moral travesty, depriving Canada of its future. The obvious problem is that Harper is not Vinod Khosla. Harper is a closet climate change denier. Harper’s vision is parochial and anti-democratic. While we have such a fragmented provincial political focus, we can only expect Harper to boost Alberta tar sands at the expense of the Canadian national economy and innovation.
This Techvibes article suggests that they may follow the Israeli government model, but the author is Israeli, has been there, done that, so she has some interesting insights.
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.
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