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South Korea plans to convert all textbooks to digital, swap backpacks for tablets by 2015 -- Engadget
Well, that oversized Kindle didn't become the textbook killer Amazon hoped it would be, but at least one country is moving forward with plans to lighten the load on its future generation of Samsung execs. South Korea announced this week that it plans to spend over $2 billion developing digital textbooks, replacing paper in all of its schools by 2015.
From left: Business boot campers Sandy Spicer (Moki.tv), Qasar Younis (TalkBin), John Egan (Sendoid), Jonathan Deutsch (Tumult), Aaron Harris (Tutorspree), Laura Valverde (Beetailer), and Wei Hsu: (Hyperink)
Y Combinator Is Boot Camp for Startups | Magazine
Lean Blog — Mark Graban's leanblog.org, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Healthcare, Toyota Production System
This is all somewhat preliminary, but I’ve been talking to the folks at the Kaizen Institute about helping organize a study trip to Japan, aimed at Lean Healthcare professionals . The trip might take place in the second half of 2012 sometime, but there is some flexibility around this, as Kaizen Institute would be creating a custom trip.Lessons Learned: Startup Lessons Learned 2011 streaming live
I have been getting emails and tweets all day from people upset that they cannot get into Startup Lessones Learned 2011 - either here in SF, where we're sold out, or in one of the more than 100 simulcast locations around the world, many of which are sold out, too. We struggle with this issue every year, because we strongly encourage everyone who can to participate with their local entrepreneurship community. Strengthening ties between entrepreneurs is one of our most important values.
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Three Little Words Every Leader Needs to Learn - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Harvard Business Review
In 2007, the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, knew that he needed help. His social-network site was growing fast, but, at the age of twenty-three, he felt ill-equipped to run it.
Sheryl Sandberg & Male-Dominated Silicon Valley : The New Yorker
Image via Wikipedia According to a recent New York Observer article, VCs, both in NY and Silicon Valley are flying in the face of startup convention lately. Rather than investing in the entrepreneur, who traditionally keep his/her startup idea close to the chest, VCs are fielding/suggesting ideas for startup companies and apps.
VC Trend: Fielding and Offering Ideas for Startups and Apps — NYConvergence.com
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Silicon valley is a technology hub – could it ever be cloned?
This past week, I’ve been in the heart of Silicon Valley: Palo Alto, California.
A new way to teach entrepreneurship
For the past three months, we’ve run an experiment in teaching entrepreneurship. In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the Lean LaunchPad .
When we read Y Combinator applications there are always ideas we're hoping to see. In the past we've never said publicly what they are. If we say we're looking for x, we'll get applications proposing x, certainly.
Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund
As a Brit who gave up cheerleading the European tech scene to make the pilgrimage to Silicon Valley to live, eat and breath the world’s leading hub for technology startup innovation, I’ve been largely unimpressed and disappointed by the quality of startups here.
The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself - TNW Entrepreneur
Max Marmer
This blog post is part 3 in my 3 part series on Mental Health.We knew Ron Conway and his "SV Angel" were prolific angel investors. But we didn't know he was this prolific. An Excel file, purportedly of SV Angel's entire portfolio, has made its way into our inbox, and we have reproduced it here.
LEAKED: All Of Ron Conway's Investments Since 2005
Microsoft has struck a deal to buy Nokia's phone unit for $19 billion, Russian mobile blogger Eldar Murtazin is hinting on Twitter . Specifically, Murtazin tweeted, "One small software company decided last week that they could spent 19 bln USD to buy a part of small phone vendor. Thats it."