Last Friday we posted a video which featured a series of top management figures explaining what they considered to be the crucial skills for tomorrow’s leaders. This week we’re going down a different path- we’re turning a negative into a positive!
Amit Jain, entrepreneur at Innovatrs, has been a business developer of various companies, ranging from start-ups to small to mid-sized organizations. He was recognized in 2005 as the Entrepreneurial Graduate Student of the Year
What are the most important skills that will be required of tomorrow’s leaders? In this video interview, management thought leaders- including Dr.Ángel Cabrera (President, Thunderbird School of Management) and Bill George and Dr. Ellen Langer (Professors at the Harvard Business School) - share their ideas about what they consider to be crucial leadership skills
While the Phillipines faces a cycle of seemingly never-ending political crisis, a new breed of Technopreneur is quietly rising in the background. Meet Prof. Gerald C. Degala, an Innovatrs entrepreneur and a self-confessed technopreneur with an arsenal of more than a hundred pending patent and unregistered Internet enabled products and services.
Groupon, which launched in November 2008, has become the fastest growing company in web history. Their innovative entrpreneurial founder, Andrew Mason, invented the business model which has transformed the way companies make sales (especially smaller ones with limited marketing budgets).
Bernard Moon is the co-founder and CEO of XS Groupe, and an Innovatrs entrepreneur. He is also the outgoing Managing Director of the Lunsford Group, a private holding company consisting of entities in research and consulting, technology, media, healthcare and real estate.
Fred Wilson is a New York-based venture capitalist and a prominet blogger. He is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, Indeed.com, Oddcast,Disqus and Clickable.
Elena Alexseeva, Co-Founder & CEO at PhotoHand.com, has more than 15 years of experience in IT services, having previously held IT strategy consulting and product development positions. In this latest Innovatrs interview, Elena talks about her first steps in the IT industry
In this video interview, Chris Sacca, talks about the sustainability of the ‘super angel’ model and how he put together his template for investors to reach financial success.
John P ‘Jack’ Beckett became Director of Photograpy of Beckett Motion Picture in 1961 and continues his great work as an entrepreneur at Innovatrs. His company grew into a full service provider of Motion Picture on TV equipment. And not just any old bit of TV equipment- they’ve built the fastest Motion Picture Film Scanner in the world.
Seth Godin is an iconic figure in the small business sector who has written several bestselling books (LINCHPIN the most recent one ), on topics including the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting and leadership.
Rob Kurver, serial entrepreneur at Innovatrs, explains how he entered into the world of Cloud Computing. He co-founded Voipro in 2005, a hosted voice (SaaS telco) leader in the Netherlands, currently expanding to other countries. Rob is also a creator of websites, interactive magazines and communities for the iPad generation.
Entrepreneur Andrew Rickman OBE (far left), is the founder and former non-executive chairman of Bookham, the one-time second largest fibre optics telcom component producer in the world. Andrew set up the company as a start-up in 1988 and helped launch it to an FTSE100 company as CEO.
Tomas Mendoza, entrepreneur at Innovatrs and managing director and founder of fonmigo, talks about the difficulties of landing a first-time job after university graduation, the merits of starting up his own company and the importance of pursuing a dream career-path.
After watching this video, the first thoughts to enter your mind are the classic differences between entrepreneurs and employees.
In the cliché driven world of business and marketing, it’s easy to roll out the old adage that success breeds success. But as any good entrepreneur knows, it’s the experience of failure that ultimately drives long-term career glory.
Bill Darby, founder of iMOVIEi and Innovatrs entrepreneur, tells us about his life in the unpredictable world of film production.
Scott Anthony is the Managing Director of Innosight, a boutique consulting, training and investment firm that works with Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, non-profits and national governments to improve their ability to create innovation-driven growth.
Rob Symington, entrepreneur at Innovatrs and the founder of Escape The City, talks about his latest venture and how the project has taught him that just because things are usually done in a certain way, it doesn’t necessarily mean it is the best way to do them.
Jerry Kaplan, is widely known in the computer industry as a serial entrepreneur, technical innovator, author and the former co-chairman of Egghead.com, Inc. Previously he was CEO of online auction company Onsale which he co-founded in 1994. In this video Kaplan talks about the top qualities he thinks entrepreneurs need to have to succed:
R. Wayne Steiger, entrepreneur at Innovatrs and founder of TME, talks about his experiences working with several successful start-ups and how he developed his latest venture. His new start-up, the wireless company TME, provides mobile payment solutions, along with other remote payment applications. TME utilizes Cloud Management Technology to solve some pretty complex issues.
Cloud computing has become one of the most talked about opportunities for start-up’s and small businesses. Today millions of SME’s use cloud computing to radically reduce their cost of IT, Web sites and social media marketing.
Famous angel investor, Chris Dixon, has been involved in early-stage technology companies including Skype, Overflow, DocVerse, co-founder of Hunch and founder of Collective.
Rebecca Tranter, independent producer and entrepreneur at Innovatrs, tells us about her work on award winning shorts and several commercial feature projects.
In this latest video interview, entrepreneur Michael Birch (famous for creating Bebo in 2005) explains challenges surrounding the choice of domain names and the misconception that social networking websites are not easily profitable.
