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Future of Microcontent

MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) presented a panel discussion on The Future of Microconetent and Mobile Device Applicaiton at Stanford Graduate School of Business. David Arfin, CEO of Gloolabs gave the presentation on microcontent and mobile device applicaitons. Here are a few interesting points: 2 billion mobile subscribers worldwide in 2005 600 handsets are sold [...]

Connect the Unconnected

An innitative kicked off by the GSM Association in an effort to develop “ultra-low cost” mobile handsets for the developing countries. The handset is priced at $30 to $40 to make it affordable for the poor. Motorola has launched the first such phone built on its new C114 platform for durability and long talk [...]

Entrepreneurship Conference

I was very excited to attend Stanford GSB 2005 Conferenece on Entrpreneurship. I heard about this conference only a few days ago. Luckily, I was still able to register.

The Morning Keynote

The morning keynote speaker Jeff Bezos told his story of starting Amazon.com. I was little late so I sit in the meeting [...]

Asiloma Offsite

We had a wonderful offsite meeting at beautiful Asilomar Conference Center. It’s just nice to get away from telephones, TVs, highways, and everything else… I miss the nature.

The two-day retreat is, in my opinion, the best part of the fellowship. We did workshops, role-plays, and exercises. We even watched the movie! Not only [...]

Leadership Style

Leadership That Gets Results by Daniel Goleman (Harvard Business Review) is the best article I have read so far in this class. I have learned so much from it. In the article, Daniel Goleman argues that there are six leadership styles:

Coercive leaders demand immediate compliance Authoritative leaders mobilize people toward a vision Affiliative [...]