Message to China: Let’s compete on innovation, not patents
The Chinese government has initiated a nationwide program to make China the world leader in patents in every important industry. The New York Times reported that the government is offering cash...
View ArticleHow to fix the flawed Startup Visa Act
Many foreign-born techies in the U.S. and abroad are pinning their entrepreneurial hopes on the passage of a bill, sponsored by Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), to create a...
View ArticleWhy Silicon Valley immigrant entrepreneurs are returning home
NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw visited Silicon Valley last month to meet immigrant entrepreneurs. At Microsoft’s Mountain View campus, he met with a dozen of them. More than half said that they...
View ArticleObama-Zuckerberg and expeditionary economics
Thanks to the revolutions happening in the Middle East, our leaders have been touting social media as the new force for democracy. President Obama went out of his way to schmooze Facebook employees...
View ArticleDiversity, cultural networks power innovation
University of California, Berkeley School of Information’s dean, AnnaLee Saxenian, often talks about a visit, in the ‘90s, by a high-level delegation from Japan. The Japanese kept asking where the...
View ArticleThe face of success (part 4): Blacks in Silicon Valley
If you think the dearth of women polarizes Silicon Valley, just read what happened when I spoke out about the lack of black tech CEOs. In the previous three pieces in this series, I discussed the...
View ArticleHollywood’s role in innovation … and SOPA
Silicon Valley may be a garden of innovation, but many of the seeds were sown by Hollywood. Earlier generations of innovators were inspired by shows such as Star Trek, Lost in Space, and The Jetsons;...
View ArticleFly high
Todd Branchflower was one my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. After watching my Secret History of...
View ArticleIt’s About Women Running Startups
Just before the holidays I had coffee with Anne, an ex MBA student running a fairly large product group at a search engine company, now out trying to raise money for her own startup. She had an...
View ArticleFly high
Todd Branchflower was one my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. After watching my Secret History of...
View ArticleIt’s About Women Running Startups
Just before the holidays I had coffee with Anne, an ex MBA student running a fairly large product group at a search engine company, now out trying to raise money for her own startup. She had an...
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