The Esquire Guy’s Guide to Media Interviews
If you are an innovator or entrepreneur, chances are the media wants to cover you because you are doing something right or are intriguing enough. Esquire has released a video guide on how you can sound natural, deliver a difficult message, and the phases you should never say
From physics to probabilities: Pokerstars’ Liv Boeree
Liv Boeree has always been passionate about astrophysics and gained a First Class Honors degree in Physics from Manchester University. She became involved in the poker industry after graduation, making a name for herself by winning the European Poker Tour in 2010 in San Remo. Liv’s substantial career winnings and work in the television industry prove that a physics degree can be applied in a less orthodox way.
The First Entrepreneur At Large on Incubating NYC Startups
Jane Pauley interviews Steve Rosenbaum, appointed by the New York City Economic Development Corporation as the city’s first Entrepreneur At Large. He speaks about his new role incubating startups and why he thinks New York’s tech sector will soon surpass Silicon Valley.
David Cheriton: The Professor Who Wrote Google Its First Check
In 1998, David Cheriton wrote a $100,000 check to Larry Page and Sergey Brin. From his front porch, the Stanford professor catches up with Forbes and reveals his thoughts on the progress of Google.
How Stanford Made Instagram’s Kevin Systrom a Silicon Valley Star
Facebook’s $1 billion purchase of the photo app made Kevin Systrom the latest tech cult hero. It happened only because he chose school of Zuckerberg’s start-up.
Mobile Innovation: What Inspired You?
Mobile innovators have risen from all spectrums of life, from corporate institutions to mom and pop stores. The trait they all held to be common was a curiousity and thirst to disrupt. The list of innovators being interviewed include Ray Kurzweil, Inventor of text to speech, Philippe Kahn, Inventor of the camera phone and Kevin Systrom, Founder of Instragram. Sit through this video to see how you can discover your next innovation.
Interview with SAS CEO Dr. Jim Goodnight
InformationWeek’s Doug Henschen interviews Dr. Jim Goodnight, the CEO and co-Founder of SAS, one of the industry’s leaders in data analytics.
The Startup Game | Bill Draper
When we think of Silicon Valley today, innovative companies such as Google, Facebook, Open Table, and others will come to mind. It’s difficult to imagine these powerhouses as small, struggling start-ups, but at some point, each one was just a good idea that needed support. For these and countless other startups, that support came through venture capitalists. Venture capital is much more than the caricature many may think of when they hear the term; these businessmen and women do not invest millions with the sole hope of “cashing out” in the future. In fact, they provide creative thinkers with both the capital necessary to turn their vision into a reality and the business know-how and networking skills necessary to keep the company afloat.
“The Startup Game” covers Bill Draper’s forty years of experience and describes how vital the relationship between venture capitalist and entrepreneur is to the future of business, and offers lessons culled from decades of working in the technology center of the world. Draper extracts lessons and advice that only a lifetime in the field can provide—from the necessary qualities any successful entrepreneur must possess to the importance of friendship and family in the business world. He provides candid descriptions of his own successes and failures in venture capital and public service, and writes passionately about the important role government can—and in his view should—play in encouraging new businesses in the United States.
The Man and His Machine
Sir Maurice Wilkes, without doubt one of the foremost pioneers of computing, died in November last year aged 97. In a remarkably long and distinguished career, he built the EDSAC the world’s first electronic stored-program computer to go into regular service, and went on to pioneer concepts such a microprogramming, bit-sliced architectures, local area networks and many, many other things. He served the international computing community with distinction and gained many honors.
David Hartley has spent almost the whole of his career in Cambridge University much of it in close association with Sir Maurice. In conversation with CHM’s John Hollar, David described Sir Maurice’s more important achievements, including the EDSAC computer, as well as giving a personal view of a man that he knew and with whom he worked over such a long period of time.
Without rule of law, are all men created equal?
‘The license of lawlessness’, a phrase so vile that it feeds the indignance of man. After Nixon’s Watergate scandal, during his interview with Robert Frost, Nixon outrageously discusses that the President is allowed to carry out certain actions in the best interest of the country, even if they step outside the ‘constraints’ of the law. Although he received much flack and was eventually ousted, he was granted a full pardon by Gerald Ford and freed of his accountability. It seemed that ‘the ends justify the means’ had won that day.
In this interview, Glenn Greenwald, Salon contributing writer and author of ‘With Liberty and Justice for Some’ tells “Viewpoint” host and former NY governor Eliot Spitzer how the political and financial elite have managed to defy accountability and rise above the law.
