Upon2020 (archive)
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First-hand account of the World Economic Forum meeting in Amman, Jordan, June 2003
Now I'm in Amman, where the World Economic Forum's global reconciliation summit is about to take place. The World Economic Forum is best known through its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and the typically associated anti-globalization protests. If you want to know how it looks like from the inside, read this. It is very different…
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Invited to speak to the World Economic Forum
I will on on the panel at the World Economic Forum's upcoming extraordinary annual meeting in Amman, Jordan, in a session on "Creating a Culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship". The background of the meeting is clearly the global topic of big role for such a transformation to be successful. I'm thrilled! How often does one…
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What to do with your startup’s first $30,300
Your startup company just got funded. You made it, right? Well, the work is only starting, and the first order of business is to determine where to spend money first, so you get the most bang for those bucks that were so hard to get. Should you hire developers, invest in a really nicely designed…
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Invited to World Economic Forum meeting in Amman
The World Economic Forum has invited me to their extraordinary annual meeting in June in Amman, Jordan. Coming so shortly after the recent events in the middle east, this meeting is being billed as "extraordinary" and "history-making" by organizers and world leaders alike. In 2001, I became one of their " Technology Pioneers" in 2001.…