Commandments and networks for entrepreneurs

Oct 14, 2009

With his 25-year experience in business innovation -experience he himself describes as full of ups and downs - investor and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki just released a set of 10 commandments for entrepreneurs, an absolute must-read.

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Empresaemergente.com, a portal of articles about businesses, now features a compilation of entrepreneurs networks we believe worth sharing.

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Cleaning Up 2009 Report Keynote

Jun 19, 2009

“Massive goverment founding will reach the sector in 2011″

Angus McCrone

  • 5X Clean tech investment growth from 2004 to 2007
    2008Q3 2008Q4 2009Q1 decrease
  • Main countries clean tech investment. USA, Spain, China and Brazil.
    Banks are growing in confidence again.
  • Clean tech sector needs a solid price of gas in order to be reliable.
  • Some banks have crushed. Banks that were leanders of clean tech innovation and projects.
  • During next year Cleantech production, even in the more optimistic scenario, is going to be over demand.
  • Europe is important, but USA is the place where VC founding is flowing.
  • The amount of money that is being rised is higher than the amount of money that is being invested.
  • Solar and wind are the main clean sectors were investment is taking place.
  • Spanish banks are covering the place left by other crushed banks as clean tech leaners leaders.
  • Massive goverment founding will reach the sector in 2011. When it happens, combined with a bank confidence growth, will push up clean tech sector again.

Extract by Daniel Martínez


Cleantech Innovation Showcase & Tournament

Jun 18, 2009

Electric cars and solar cells : innovation race

Honda

  • Nowadays trends in clean tech depelopment in Honda are:
    - Super-clean diesel
    - Flex fuel vehicle
    - Natural gas vehicle
    - Bio-ethanol
    - Genomic research
    - Solar cells

Emovement

  • Emovement focus the tech advances in:
    - Battery technology
    - Fast battery charging
    - Data collection and analysis mechanism
    - Intelligent energy management system

Sixtron

  • Sixtron provides solar cells solutions by innovation in materials focused on:
    - Safety
    - Cost
    - Process
    - Efficiency

Skycab

  • SkyCab offers a new way of travelling and the goals in his innovation process are:
    - Attraction
    - Whole society accessibility
    - Safe and secure
    - Energy efficient and environmentally friendly
    - Cost effective

Beepo

  • Beepo provides electrical vehicles for commercial purposes with a:
    - High reliability and low cost products
    - Low cost manufacturing
    - National reach, branding and after sale

Extract by Jordi Sotorra


Michael Eisner: media and entertainment success

Jun 9, 2009

Michael Eisner is the former chief executive officer of the Walt Disney Company and the man generally considered responsible for Disney’s monumental success in the 1990s.

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How answers.com explains, during the 1970s and early ’80s Eisner earned his reputation as a keen businessman, first as a programming director for ABC television and then as president of Paramount movie studios.

In September, 1984, Michael Eisner became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of  The Walt Disney Company. Since the death of Walt Disney in 1966, the studio had continued to enjoy periodic box office successes, and to earn profits from its theme parks and merchandising, but many in the industry felt the company was suffering from a lack of direction. Within a few years, Eisner transformed the company into a media giant whose interests included movies, sports franchises, theme parks and television networks.

After a downhill in the late ’90s and leaving Disney, Michael Eisner has founded The Tornante Company (the name comes from the Italian for “hairpin turn”) to invest in and develop companies in the media and entertainment sector. Tornante holdings range from Team Baby Entertainment and the Internet television company Veoh Network, to the Topps bubblegum and trading card company.

In 2006, Michael Eisner hosted his own business and entertainment interview program, Conversations With Michael Eisner on the CNBC television network.