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Kawasaki should know, of course. He has a formidable résumé: author of eight other business books (including the best seller The Art of the Start), entrepreneur, venture capitalist and blogger who rose to fame at Apple. In his new book, Kawasaki takes the role of mentor and big brother to those in start-up mode or even restart mode. At times he sounds like an irreverent Silicon Valley Emily Post; his highly readable book is an encyclopedia of proper behavior for entrepreneurs. The author eagerly teaches readers "how to suck up to a blogger," "kick butt on a panel...
Saif Ahmed began living the Dubai dream five years ago. Armed with an M.B.A. from the University of Toronto, the Canadian entrepreneur moved to the gulf city-state and co-founded property developer Universal Canlink Inc. By 2006 the firm had annual revenues of $15 million, luring foreign investors with tales of "meteoric" growth in the local property market. Lately, with the global financial downturn spreading to the Middle East, Ahmed has come back to earth. "Before, people were buying blindly, without asking much about the details," he says. "Now such risk takers have disappeared...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences Information Technology Department has rejected the latest proposal by a student entrepreneur to feed cable television into dorm rooms via the Internet, according to Undergraduate Council members...
...share your recorded masterpieces with - for $9.95 a month. (Only a fanatic or high-end home-karaoke-bar owner would pay that, of course; do-it-yourselfers can pay $14.95 per day, which is good for a party.) The site is the brainchild of Alexandre Taillefer, a fellow entrepreneur, who, not too long ago, got into the karaoke biz after hosting a sing-along party at his home with a bunch of rented high-end sound equipment. "It was a cumbersome project," he admitted. But it was fun: "We ended up going to bed at 3 o'clock...
...June 2007 when it created a completely open platform for developers - who quickly launched hundreds of thousands of applications - LinkedIn's plan is to carefully and slowly vet everything that goes onto its platform. "We don't want zombies and werewolves and all that," said Reid Hoffman, the brilliant entrepreneur who founded LinkedIn in May 2003, during a particularly bleak part of the dotcom meltdown. He told me that if his social network offered 60 applications a year from now, "we'd be very happy. The focus is on quality, not quantity...