The Economist cover story The Real Digital Divide cited research that suggests the mobile phone is the technology with the greatest impact on development. In contrast with the UN’s top-down approach to build ICT centers in the hope to close the “digital divide,” the wide spreaded mobile phones in developing countries enable people to close […]
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These days, everything moves fast. Here we go: eBay launched the online classifieds websites in Canada, China, Germany, Japan, France, and Italy. The company, named Kijiji, is a start-up within eBay by a small team of entrepreneurial employees. It builds local communities online and offers services from chatting about the best restaurants in the cities, […] At GSB monthly speaker serial, the Silicon Valley legend John Doerr of KPCB gave a talk about View from the Top. People asked “from the top of what?” He joked: obviously from the top of Sand Hill Road. I have heard John Doerr talk before, it’s always interesting to hear him again. John started by […] e-Mobilizer won the first round of the BASES Entrepreneurship Challenge. This challenge is considered one of the world’s most prestigious business plan competition. I am very excited about this. The e-Mobilizer service is a Web portal with a mobile interface that allows users to post their products and service information via cell phones to the […] Pamela Hartigan, the Managing Director of the Shwab Foundation for Social Entreprenreurship, give a presentation about how the foundation supports some of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. The Shwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship is founded by Klaus Schwab, President and Founder of the World Economic Forum. It’s primary purpose is to build a network of […] 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 every […] 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 time. […] 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 room […] 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 we […] 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 leaders […] |