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Interview with the President of the University that Turned Israel Into a Start-up Nation

July 6, 2015

Peter High, writing at Forbes, interviews Paretz Lavie, president of the Isreal Institute of Technology, also known as Technon. Lavie explains how the university has become a hotbed of entrepreneurship:

I have been asked this question many, many times and I have come to the conclusion that a world class university that plays such a major role in the economy of its environment or its state must have three ingredients: excellent students, excellent faculty members, and this is obvious, but it must have also a third ingredient and it is not so clear when you think about universities. This is a statement of mission. A mission statement must be part of the DNA of the university. […]

Being entrepreneurial and being innovative is affected by a multitude of factors. First, how the student or the entrepreneur is educated. The ability to take risk or the ability to sustain failure is very important. Remember, among startups only one in ten is successful. Some entrepreneurs are successful only in their seventh or eighth attempt, so you must be resilient to failures. The need to achieve is very important. These are characteristics of sometimes immigrants as you said yourself, or people who need to live in an environment or a neighborhood that constantly challenges them. What you can do in order to direct them or to make them a better entrepreneur is to give them some tools. You can provide them with role models, and this is what we are doing in the Technion […]. […]

You cannot rely on your own knowledge, you must bridge different areas. So most of the research centers in the Technion now are interdisciplinary.

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Wednesday Assorted Links

May 20, 2015

1. Google brings a full-featured version of Maps to Android Wear watches. Good.

2. Tim Cook: Apple Watch in stores by June, Apple Pay coming to China ‘soon’. The headline is all you need.

3. Nest’s Tony Fadell says Google has ‘no sacred cows’ as it rethinks Glass. Sounds good, as long as that means nixing the consumer version is an option, too.

4. Marco Arment doesn’t like many things about the new MacBook.

5. LTE smartphones are becoming faster and cheaper. Clearly, but this caught my eye: “Marvell boasted that a SoC (system-on-chip) it developed is powering a $65 LTE smartphone”.

6. Bill Gates Shares His List Of Summer ‘Beach Reading’ Books. I admit, “What If?” by Randall Munroe sounds intriguing.

7. At Zappos, Banishing the Bosses Brings Confusion. Would the Apollo program (or any meaningfully-sized development effort) have worked with “Holocracy”?

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Three Reasons LinkedIn Broke the Bank for Lynda.com

April 9, 2015

Link to Kurt Wagner’s (Re/code) coverage. Good for Lynda and LinkedIn. I’m a Lynda.com user. If you know what you want, it’s great. Kurt cites 3 reasons for the acquisition:

  • Their missions align. They both ultimately want people to have better jobs.
  • LinkedIn wants to attract students; Lynda.com already has.
  • Gives LinkedIn users another reason to keep using the site.
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