My new blog: Innovation For the Future

I have this new blog Innovation For the Future which will focus more on technology, science, innovation, entrepreneurship etc..

Feel free to visit "Innovation For the Future" if you like science, technology, innovation, entrepreneurship.... too.

I create a bloglist "My other blog" here. You can see whether there are new posts on Innovation For the Future.

Rise of Nations 大国崛起

There is this documentary series 大国崛起 (Rise of Nations) that I like very much.
It is about how some nations (Portugal, Spain, Neatherland, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Russia amd United States of America) rise to become great nations.
There are many lessons we can learn from their paths to greatness (also on their decline) and obstacles they face.

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There are some video clips and texts that are excerpts from the documentary series.

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Website by Taiwan’s 天下magazine on 大国崛起
Click on the countries. There are some articles that are great read too.

The book 大国崛起 by 唐晋 is a great book to complement this documentary.
It gives a more detailed look on these great nations’ development path to greatness.
I think this is some kind of country analysis too (part of investment analysis) :-)

Harvard Business School Leadership Initiative – US business leaders (1)

I came across this book "In their time – the greatest business leaders of the 20th century".
(in Chinese version, its title is 英雄年代)
It is a great book on US business leaders, US business history in 1900s to 1990s.

From this book, I get to know this Harvard Business School – Leadership Initiative.
It is a great repository for US business leadership/history.
Let’s explore.

Timeline
This "timeline" feature is really great.
It shows US’s 6 contextual factors (demographics, technology, social mores, government intervention, labour and global events) in every period of 10 years, starting from 1900s, to 1990s; and some of the great entrepreneurs, managers and leaders.
The "interesting facts" are fun.

Another feature is "leader". It shows American business leaders of 20th century,
can be filtered using last name, industry, company, era
Leaders

Are there databases like this one for business leaders in Europe, Asia etc. ?

There is also another book by the same authors:
Paths to Power : How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership
I haven't read this book yet.

Technopreneur’s presentation : Demo Fall 08 and TechCrunch50 Conference

Have a real feel on how technopreneurs presenting to VCs !

Demo Fall 08, San Diego.
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(The Launchpad for Emerging Technology)
Date: September 7-9, 2008

• Click on "DEMOfall 08" for lists of videos showing technopreneurs presenting their products/ideas/companies.
• Click on "Demonstrator" to have a quick view of what are the new startup companies/products/competitions/industries etc.

TechCrunch50 Conference 2008, San Francisco
Date: September 8-10, 2008
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• Click on "Companies" to see the shortlisted companies and their presentations.
• Click on "Experts" to see some examples of Venture Capitalists.