Last summer, I was lucky enough to be at the opening game of the new San Francisco 49ers stadium: the Levi’s Stadium. The game was an MLS (Major League Soccer) game with the San Jose Earthquakes hosting the Seattle Sounders. The 49ers wanted to christen the stadium with a non-NFL game. It wasn’t a sellout but they did fill 50,000 seats out of about […]
What do we learn from Uber? Mistakes an Entrepreneur should avoid
If you ever ride a cab in Madrid, you can be sure of having an entertaining and engaging conversation with the taxi driver about everything from sports to politics and from business to philosophy. Last year, during one of my visits to Madrid, I had an interesting conversation about Uber with the taxi driver. During those days taxi […]
The Startup Corporation: Taking Breakthrough Entrepreneurship to New Heights
High growth startups – and in some cases, new industries like social networks and internet content marketing – rely on breakthrough ideas to create new products. Established firms can benefit from the management ideas that guide these startups, and leverage them further due to an important advantage: their access to resources and networks that startups […]
Silicon Valley Innovation, European Style
These days many believe that Europe’s economy and its major corporations are stagnant, simply trying to fight the recession to survive. It turns out that this is far from reality. Increasingly, executives from major . In their search for growth, many end up spending time in Silicon Valley to learn more about innovation and entrepreneurship, […]