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Gov 2.0 Events Blog. Martin Varsavsky | Spanish - Jimmy Wales. Curriculum Vitae. Michael Arrington. J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O'Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. His clients included idealab, Netscape, Pixar, Apple and a number of startups, venture funds and investment banks.

He also co-authored a book on initial public offerings. In 1999, he left WSGR to join RealNames as VP of Business Development and General Counsel. Arrington worked in an operational role at a Carlyle backed startup in London, founded and ran two companies in Canada (Zip.ca and Pool.com), was COO to a Kleiner-backed company called Razorgator, and consulted to other companies, including Verisign. Conflicts Of Interest Updated 10/23/12 That means I invest in a lot of startups. See Less. Tim O'Reilly. How to Change the World. Amazon start selling the paperback edition of my latest book, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. APE explains how to publish a book by breaking the process down into three stages: Author explains how to write a book. Publisher explains how to produce both ebooks and printed books.Entrepreneur explains how to market and sell your book with an emphasis on social media.

You can order APE here: There are 204 Amazon reviews for it: 181 five stars, 21 four stars, and 2 three stars which averages to five stars! Here are three of the blurbs: “Nuts, bolts, and inspiration too. Seth Godin, author and founder of The Icarus Project “Guy’s book is the perfect companion on the journey of independent publishing and great reading for the millions who aspire to become authors.” Atif Rafiq, General Manager, Kindle Direct Publishing at Amazon.com. Juan freire. Mar Monsoriu Flor | Escritora y consultora tecnológica. Don Tapscott - Bio. Don tailors each presentation to the needs of his audience and is not limited to the topics we have listed below. These are subjects that have proven valuable to customers in the past and are meant only to suggest his range and interests. Please ask us about any subject that interests you; we are sure that we can accommodate you. More and more pundits admit that Tapscott was right a year ago when he said “This economics crisis is not over, it’s just beginning.”

But how do we avoid a prolonged period of calamity? Tapscott holds that the future is not something to be predicted but achieved, and to fix a broken world we must first understand the true problem. The economic crisis is unprecedented, but is just one aspect of the world going through fundamental change as the industrial age comes to a close. In Egypt and Tunisia we saw a revolution in how to foment revolutions. The “jobless recovery” is an oxymoron. Industrial age processes focused on structured work.

The conclusion? Dealing_with_Darwin: Darwin has moved!