Welcome to Episode #2 of Rick’s Startup Whiteboard (the video is at http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/4106-ricks-startup-whiteboard-episode-2-ear… if it’s not showing up above). This one focuses on the importance of working with partners — not employees, not contractors — when you’re the pony-diving stage of a startup project, still trying to figure out the […]
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A few days ago the Iranian government completed the process of “privatizing” the Iranian national telecommunications company. Sounds great right? Less state control, more public sector involvement, free market and all that jazz. However, a closer looks shows that the majority stake (50% + 1 share), purchased for $7.8 billion, […]
With the exception of the beleaguered Atlanta Journal-Constitution, no major papers are covering the flooding currently ravaging Atlanta, Georgia. I only know about it because my mother and step-father live there—they’re fine, but my mother nearly couldn’t get home last night because of so many downed trees, washed-out roads, and […]
MIT Tech TV This is the first of (soon to be) many videos by Rick Borovoy on entrepreneurship and social media. See all of them at Rick’s blog: http://civic.mit.edu/blog/rborovoy/
Welcome to the first video webisode of “Rick’s Startup Whiteboard” (it’s at http://bit.ly/eqeAX if you don’t see it above for some reason) It’s a sharper-than-broken-glass-and-every-bit-as-dangerous look at what’s involved in getting a new social technology project started. The first clip is about “Pony Diving” — the very early stages where […]