Or, the time five people from five continents pitched at MIT (read Part 3) The astute among you will realise that this picture is taken looking west Tuesday 9th August It’s a truly beautiful morning, warm and glowing with a bright summer morning radiance. It’s hard to begrudge getting up on days like this, even after two […]
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Or, the time five people from five continents pitched at MIT (read Part 2) Jose became a master of correctly peeling Post-It notes Monday 8th August It’s our first official 7am start and the first full day of the real lecture program. As people start to arrive, grabbing breakfast from the heaving buffet outside the classroom, we
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Or, the time five people from five continents pitched at MIT (read Part 1) Sunday 7th August The days start (officially) at 7am based on the calendar we’ve had circulated. Sunday is a nice gentle introduction with an 8am start. With little idea of just what we’ve got coming, a lot of us turn up on
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Or, the time five people from five continents pitched at MIT The MIT Sloan School was our home (literally) for 6 days in August 2016 Wednesday, June 22, 2016 Dear Mark, On behalf of the MIT Bootcamp admissions committee, I am delighted to inform you of your admission to the MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp program, August 7–12, 2016.
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This time a week ago I was hanging upside down from a rope tied to my waist, my head barely ten feet above the ground, with my inner voice yelling, “Get back up, you look like an idiot. Get up. Get up. GET UP!” The fall itself was embarrassing. I was stressed and pushing well
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The Platform Economy Hype Had you asked me as little as two or three months ago what was meant by the platform economy, I would have pointed to the darlings of the cloud world — Salesforce, Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure. These, to me as a techy, were platforms — services on which other applications and products were built on.
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I regularly find myself justifying autonomous cars in idle conversation. Often, my defence of the robots leads to an accusation that I don’t love driving, or that I’m trying to invent Skynet. Nothing could be further from the truth. I really love driving*. One of the most popular watercooler discussions of the moment is the
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I regularly find myself justifying autonomous cars in idle conversation. Often, my defence of the robots leads to an accusation that I don’t love driving, or that I’m trying to invent Skynet. Nothing could be further from the truth. I really love driving*. One of the most popular watercooler discussions of the moment is the
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Also posted on LinkedIn if you’d like to get in touch or comment I have recently made the hardest decision of my career. On March 1st, I resigned from a job that I love, at a company that I’ve helped to build for the last eighteen years. Building up to that nearly impossible decision has
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I recently wrote an article posting some analysis of the (awful) gender disparity demonstrated by the number of women entering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) degree courses, and particularly Computer Science (14% in 2015). I also noted a similarity between that number and the percentage of women being celebrated in the CIO 100 last
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