Remove 1995 Remove Engineer Remove Green Remove Technology
article thumbnail

These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

Coursera’s catalog offers a wide variety of courses, from music and art to technology, science , and business. The courses offered by edX run the gamut from the usual university courses in arts and humanities, science, and engineering, to business-related courses offered by well-known schools like the Wharton School of Business.

article thumbnail

These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

Coursera’s catalog offers a wide variety of courses, from music and art to technology, science , and business. The courses offered by edX run the gamut from the usual university courses in arts and humanities, science, and engineering, to business-related courses offered by well-known schools like the Wharton School of Business.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Google Boulder’s Gift to NCWIT

Feld Thoughts

The head of Google Boulder (I think his official title in Googlespeak is “Engineering Site Director”) is Scott Green. I’ve known Scott since shortly after I moved to Boulder in 1995. NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information Technology) has long been a hidden gem of Boulder.

article thumbnail

52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost. The wedding industry is notoriously one of the least technologically advanced retail sectors. Image Credit: Brittany Haas.

article thumbnail

The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine.

article thumbnail

The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. He started Passageways Inc. He started Passageways Inc.