Category: Entrepreneurship
I was glad to see two interesting initiatives this week related to women and girls in technology. The first was Entrepreneurial Night by Girls' Middle School in Mountain View and held at Google. Ten groups of seventh grade girls made their pitches to a room full of venture capitalists.
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Today turns out to be the twenty year anniversary of when George Lucas sold Pixar to Steve Jobs. In the post, "February 3, 1986: Divorce, Mogul Style," Chris Seibold tells of how Lucas decided to "see a smallish piece of his Lucas Film empire" to raise cash to settle his divorce. Given Lucas' predicament, Steve Jobs was able to bring Lucas' initial asking price of 30 million dollars to 10 million.
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Earlier today, I went to the E27 Technology Symposium at Stanford University. E27 is "a forum for young entrepreneurs to showcase their upcoming or new products to influential representatives from newspapers, popular blogs, progressive companies, universities, and venture capitalist firms."
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Posted January 28, 2006 in Entrepreneurship • Apps/Reviews • Tech/Design Events |
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