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Mark Zuckerberg On Innovation
Twitter It!By: Henry Blodget
Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004. Five years later, it has 300 million users and $500 million in revenue, and it’s worth something north of $6 billion.
Now 25, Mark still runs the place.
He was kind enough to sit down with me recently to talk about how [...]
Do You Really Know Bill Gates? The Myth of Entrepreneur as Risk-Taker
Twitter It!By: Tim Ferris
Putting All the Chips on the Table?
Growing up as I did, with an early interest in business, it was almost impossible not to envy people like Gates, and even measure myself against them. Gates had placed all his chips on the table at one time and walked away richer than Croesus. And [...]
Hammer markets his brand
Twitter It!By: D.C. Denison, Globe Staff
Former rapper hails use of social media platforms
There was nothing nostalgic about MC Hammer’s appearance yesterday before 100 entrepreneurs and marketing professionals who gathered at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge for the Gravity Summit conference on social media marketing.
For many in the audience, Hammer, the energetic dancer and rapper [...]
Competing with the singleminded
Twitter It!By: Seth Godin
I was talking with a few executives from one of the biggest technology companies in Europe, and they were explaining how their hands were tied in moving forward on the internet. They were doing the best they could under the circumstances, of course, but there were units in their organization that needed [...]
Critics that matter
Twitter It!By: Seth Godin
If you invent or launch or market (and you’re human) it’s likely that you have the voice of the critic in the back of your head. It’s natural to fear what they’ll say, and if you’re not careful, you’ll end up redesigning your product to please them before you even launch [...]