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How do you speed the slow ideas
In the conceptual economy, it is important to address the pain points of the end-consumers as well as factor in the convenience component of the messengers/ facilitators. There is that clear art component in getting noticed or making people want to adopt or adapt. Using the traditional line [...]
Winning Lessons for Entrepreneurs in the Conceptual Economy
A new economic model is unfolding gradually before our eyes, but the future remains unclear. While we don't yet fully understand this new model, one thing is for sure: The Knowledge economy we have come to know is changing. Author Jay Maharjan had a rare, firsthand opportunity to assess these [...]
The End of Middle Management as we know it
- Jay Maharjan It was a blessing in disguise when I got my first job out of engineering school as a middle manager. Lessons learned that as a middle manager you are stuck between a rock and a hard place. You are given a limited amount of descision making capability from the top and at the same ti [...]
James Cameron: Fear is not an option
James Cameron's big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic -- from reading science fiction to deep-sea diving -- and how it ultimately drove the success of his blockbuster hits "Alie [...]
Tips on Becoming a Creative Entrepreneur
- Jay Maharjan, 01-05-2011 Living in Los Angeles, I come across creative types who are often struggling to balance between mastering their craft versus marketing them. Creative professions, by nature is highly competitive in regards to making monetary gains. Creative types disregard the realist [...]Featured blog posts 
How Digitization, Twitter and Sensors Will Put You in Control of your Health Care
08|31|2013
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Dr. Topol is a leading #futuremed advocate in the United States today. Dr. Topol gives a glimpse of what the conceptual age holds, re to #futuremed. Dr. Topol offers a clear perspective on how digitization, many to many social media outlets like twitter and (nano) sensors will [...]
How do you speed the slow ideas
08|31|2013
In the conceptual economy, it is important to address the pain points of the end-consumers as well as factor in the convenience component of the messengers/ facilitators. There is that clear art component in getting noticed or making people want to adopt or adapt. Using the traditional line of thinking [...]
The role of VCs in the Conceptual Economy
08|31|2013
Aug 23, 2013
According to Fenwick & West LLP survey of Venture Capital activities for the third quarter of 2013, we are seeing strong indicators, re to a shift in VC activities.
According to the attached survey, the VC Trend “.. has changed…with the growth of micro-VCs, accelerators…” The survey indicates that [...]
Winning Lessons for Entrepreneurs in the Conceptual Economy
08|31|2013
A new economic model is unfolding gradually before our eyes, but the future remains unclear. While we don’t yet fully understand this new model, one thing is for sure: The Knowledge economy we have come to know is changing. Author Jay Maharjan had a rare, firsthand opportunity to assess [...]
Winning Lessons for Entrepreneurs in the Conceptual Economy
10|28|2012
- Jay Maharjan
We are witnessing the arrival of a new economic model that we have yet to understand fully. Even though this new economic model is unfolding gradually and the future is yet to be clear, one thing is for sure that the knowledge economy as we are accustomed to is [...]
Startup America
07|23|2012
“Entrepreneurs embody the promise of America: the idea that if you have a good idea and are willing to work hard and see it through, you can succeed in this country. And in fulfilling this promise, entrepreneurs also play a critical role in expanding our economy and creating jobs.”
—President Barack Obama, [...]
Calling LA entrepreneurs to save Los Angeles River
04|06|2012
- Jay Maharjan
London has River Thames. Paris has the famous river Seine flowing from east to west through the heart of the city. The 52 mile LA River, surrounding the second largest city in the world, sadly, until last year, was locked down by EPA, declaring the entire water way as [...]
Op-Ed: Why I am voting ‘No’ on the proposed LAWAC merger
03|29|2012
- Jay Maharjan, March 15, 2012
I am a relatively newer member of Los Angeles World Affairs Council. Though I haven’t been a member for decades like my fellow members, I always felt since day one of joining that Los Angeles World Affairs Council (LAWAC) shared my values and this was the organization that I [...]
Winning Lessons from Joe Montana
03|11|2012
- Jay Maharjan
In my view, Joe Montana is the best quarterback ever lived. I was a student at Pitt when Montana played for a local team – Kansas City chiefs in the mid-nineties. Fast forward ten years to 2004, I was thrilled when I had a chance to meet him in person as I was consulting another [...]
Five Questions for CEO of UGE
02|13|2012
Nick Blitterswyk, CEO of UGE talks to VLN and @ecoentrepreneur about his innovtive eco venture – Urban Green Energy UGE.
4E: What Inspired you to Start UGE?
NB: I grew up in a nature reserve in western Canada, so I grew up surrounded by sustainability which, looking back, I always took for granted. Fast forward, and when I [...]
Leadership Secrets of the New England Patriots
02|07|2012
- Jay Maharjan @4entrepreneur
This post Super Bowl week, while majority of media ( & social media) is talking about the winning team the New York Giants, I can’t help but focus on the loosing team, the Patriots and reflect on why I, along with many NFL fans have tremendous respect for the franchise. I have [...]
Its Halftime in America
02|07|2012
- Jay Maharjan @4entrepreneur
The two minute Super Bowl Chrysler spot, ‘Its Halftime in America’ is in the spotlight this week. Well narrated by Clint Eastwood, this mini documentary style ad depicts the success story of Chrysler and Detroit aka motor city, rising from the ruins. The entirety of the commercial focuses on the weak American [...]
Design and Products for the conceptual Generation
02|03|2012
Here is an amazing conceptual video produced by Corning. Though the video is bit biased towards Corning’s products, the overall sentiment is exciting as for what we can expect in the future! Enjoy
Five Questions for Mark Cuban
02|03|2012
Mark Cuban is an outspoken, passionate and extremely successful American entrepreneur. Cuban got his break when his startup ‘Broadcast.com’ still at its conceptual stage was acquired by Yahoo. Over the years, Cuban has successfully acquired successful ventures, including Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team. Cuban recently gave his fresh perspective on entrepreneurship and investment to ‘DealBook’. [...]
What concerns Facebook
02|02|2012
- @4entrepreneur
Facebook filed for five billion dollar IPO on February 2, 2012. As with every public company, Facebook disclosed confidential, strategic information to SEC and the public. In this document, Facebook indicated potential threats and risks for investors. This document, filing was especially important since as a private company, people knew [...]
FUEL: A Must See Eco Documentary
01|30|2012
Eleven years in the making, FUEL is the in-depth personal journey of filmmaker and eco-evangelist Josh Tickell, who takes us on a hip, fast-paced road trip into America’s dependence on foreign oil.
Combining a history lesson of the US auto and petroleum industries and interviews with a wide range of policy makers, educators, and activists such [...]
Five Questions for Jefferey Hayzlett
01|28|2012
Jeffrey Hayzlett is a best-selling author, social media advocate, a past Chief Marketing Officer of Kodak who conducted an aggressive social media, re-branding campaign to try to salvage the brand.
4Entrepreneur – What did you learn from your days at Kodak?
JH – The importance of listening. Our customers were telling us things about [...]
Five Questions with Jeffrey Hayzlett
01|17|2012
- Jay Maharjan
Jeffrey Hayzlett is the best selling author of ‘The Mirror Test’. Jeff has recently come out with his second book, ‘Running the Gauntlet’. He served as a CMO at Kodak where he played an instrumental role in re-branding the company and pioneering social media strategy in the Corporate America setting. Jeff is a [...]
Lessons from CES: Content will be king
01|15|2012
- Jay Maharjan
Though this was my first time attending CES, I had a fairly good idea of what to expect. I knew the world’s largest trade show with 140,000 people attending from around the world would be overwhelming. My interest going into this event was mainly focused on learning where the industry stood in terms [...]
Martin Scorsese: How to Lead a Creative Life
01|09|2012
AT 69, AN AGE WHEN MOST HOLLYWOOD DIRECTORS have been packed off after a hollow cavalcade of plaudits, roasts, and nostalgic fetes, Martin Scorsese is once again panicked about hitting a deadline. His new movie is Hugo, a 3-D children’s movie being released by Paramount Pictures this Thanksgiving weekend, and Scorsese has never before directed in [...]
Too Important to Fail
12|27|2011
Watch Tavis Smiley Reports: “Too Important to Fail” on PBS. See more from Tavis Smiley.
“Too Important to Fail” examines one of the most disturbing aspects of the education crisis facing America today — the increased dropout rate among teenagers, specifically among Black teenage males. In the fifth installment ofTavis Smiley Reports, Tavis investigates the root [...]
How Peter Drucker Influenced Me
12|23|2011
Jay Maharjan
12-23-2011
I recently connected with Bruce Rosenstein, a notable author and a veteran USA Today writer for 21 years. He is the author of “Living in more than one world: How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life”. As we were sharing personal anecdotes on Peter Drucker, my mentor at the management school and [...]
The 10 Movies for Entrepreneurs
12|19|2011
The Blues Brothers. Aside from sheer good humor, Blues Brothers has to be on every entrepreneur’s list because Jake and Elroy are on a mission from on high. And if you truly believe in your startup when everyone else thinks you’re nuts, you are on a mission and you have a purpose, regardless of what is [...]
Drucker’s Vibrant, Timeless Wisdom
12|18|2011
Three former chairmen of NYU Stern’s Management Department assess
Drucker’s life and work, and his two fruitful decades at the School.
Fruitful Tenure
Drucker became deeply interested in management as a study in itself. He was attracted to New York University Graduate School of Business Administration (GBA), as Stern was then known, in 1950 with its student body [...]
Peter Drucker on Leadership
12|18|2011
What are Peter Drucker’s lessons for leaders?
What did Peter Drucker, the Father of Modern Management, have to say about leadership? Because Drucker believed that management was itself an important and noble endeavor, he did not, throughout most of his career, focus much on leadership. Having fled Nazi Germany soon after Hitler’s rise to power, Peter Drucker’s view [...]
Support Entrepreneurs via Fair Trade Organization
11|25|2011
What is Fair Trade?
07 November 2009
Fair Trade is a trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency and respect, that seeks greater equity in international trade. It contributes to sustainable development by offering better trading conditions to, and securing the rights of, marginalized producers and workers – especially in the South.
Fair Trade organizations have a clear commitment [...]
Peter Drucker’s take on a “fact-based decision”
11|07|2011
Here is a good article on Peter Drucker’s invaluable take on a “fact-based decision”. Stephen Wunker has made a valid argument on why the views of the management guru from the 20th century is still very much relevant.
Why Peter Drucker Distrusted Facts
by Stephen Wunker (excerpt from HBR)
Management consulting is an industry built on facts. [...]
Immigrant Entrepreneur Turned Away
11|02|2011
U.S. kicks out Stanford graduated entrepreneur trying to create jobs in America.
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11|01|2011
Set against the backdrop of the new “culture” of organizing bandhs (general strikes) in post-conflict Nepal, HIGHWAY explores five different relationship stories that become connected during an ill-fated bus journey from eastern Nepal to the capital, Kathmandu. When the passengers discover that sometimes wedding parties are permitted through the massive traffic jams caused by bandhs, [...]
Frank Gary: Life’s work
11|01|2011
Frank Gehry is, at 82, America’s most celebrated living architect. His designs, including the Guggenheim Bilbao and Disney Hall in Los Angeles, are all technically challenging and unmistakably his. Gehry’s creative process famously borrows from artists; less well known is his fierce commitment to budgeting and the architect’s role as project manager. Interviewed by Katherine [...]
Entrepreneurship Lessons For The Academic-Minded
10|31|2011
October 31, 2011
The slow pace of job creation has revived interest in getting promising new technologies out of university labs and into the marketplace. At Stanford University, a group of academic researchers from all over the country gathered to take a crash course in how to turn their projects into startup companies.
Ellis Meng and Tuan [...]
How the valley was won
10|31|2011
From the early days of Stanford, to pioneers who revolutionized the world while Steve Jobs was still in diapers, this is how a humble farming valley transformed into the epicenter of all things tech.
Robert Metcalfe is an intriguing character. He holds several university degrees, writes a nationally syndicated tech column, has for several years run [...]
Selling Pieces of Law Firms to Investors
10|30|2011
Imagine an afternoon trip to a Wal-Mart: You pick up socks, a flat-screen television and a microwave meal. After checking out, you stop in the photo studio at the front of the store for a family portrait, and then shift one booth over to a lawyer, who drafts your will or real estate contract.
Read NYT [...]
Hope for American Manufacturing
10|30|2011
By Chris Farrell
America’s manufacturing industry is in terminal decline, right? Smokestack America has been battered for decades by low-cost foreign competitors. Steel furnaces went cold, assembly lines shut down, and factory production moved overseas–especially to China, the world’s epicenter for mass production. A common refrain on the political stump and the nation’s op-ed pages [...]
What CEO’s exit means for GOOGLE
01|21|2011
- Jay Maharjan
Even though Google is downplaying the unexpected news, I think the shakeup will bring about fundamental changes to maintain sustainable competitive advantage for the mega search giant.
Google has opportunity to create other sources of major revenue centers – besides Adwords/adsense
Its true that Google Adsense adds tremendous value and that the way revenue grew [...]
Video: 2011 Innovation Panel @ CES Las Vegas
01|16|2011
Good points on -
- Immigration policy
- Export policy
- Education Policy
- R&D Tax credit
- 90% of growth rate coming from outside of the United States
- Learn from Germany’s export initiatives
- double taxation hurting American corporations
- measuring effectiveness, amending education policy, arcane business tax policies
- reforming governance, governance not being able to keep up with the speed [...]
Independent America – Rising from Ruins
01|15|2011
This is the story of the frustrating, spirited battle of a people in New Orleans dedicated to bringing their communities back to life.
Interesting documentary, good assessment of influence of large multi-nationals on local mom and pops and entrepreneurs.
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Changing the World through Innovation
01|14|2011
- Jay Maharjan
I recently saw the visiting Chilean minister of economy Juan Andrés Fontaine speaking to American entrepreneurs – inviting them to come to innovate in Chile, entirely on their dime. It is a brilliant idea if you think of it and quite radical at the same time. The Chilean government is sponsoring 25 start-up [...]
Corporate Governance and the Banking Sector
01|13|2011
- Jay Maharjan
Whether in North America, Europe or in Asia, banks are going through major transformation. While parts of Asia are looking bullish, the story is different in the United States and in Europe. Storied demise of the banks like Indymac in the United States points to the new need for reform within corporate governance [...]
How India can redefine ‘Industrial Discipline’
01|09|2011
- Jay Maharjan
‘Industrial Discipline’ was a remarkable initiative undertaken in the West in the mid fiftees – to get new workforce ready for the industrial revolution. We are seeing a new wave of industrial discipline currently taking place in India and China. Though China is moving at a [...]
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