Category Archives: Silicon Valley
Case Studies: Management skills for international entrepreneurs and executives in Silicon Valley
We work with international clients – executives and entrepreneurs – from a variety of countries. Here are a few, short business communications case studies showing what solutions we find when working on their particular communication skills. Go to our coaching … Continue reading
8 ways for international startups to deliver a great investor pitch to VCs or Angels
A couple of weeks ago, I was working with a group of Spaniards who were coming to Silicon Valley to taste the air of entrepreneurship and start-ups in the hopes of getting inspired. They had prepared their 3 – 5 … Continue reading
Everything you wanted to know about pitching to VCs and other investors using Storify
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Vivek Wadhwa’s fireside chat at Stanford with Angelika Blendstrup, April 5, 2011
Vivek Wadhwa gave his advice and ideas to international entrepreneurs who came to Bishop Auditorium at Stanford to listen to him being interviewed about entrepreneurship around the world by Angelika Blendstrup. Continue reading
UBERGIZMO Silicon Valley’s Greatest Gadget Blog:Personal Interview
Yesterday (June 21, 2009), I had a chance to catch up with Eliane and Hubert, the Co-Founders of Ubergizmo, they are passionate about their business which came about – as many things do in Silicon Valley – by accident as … Continue reading
Even though we need foreign-born professionals here in the US, the H-1B visa hounds are after them again.
Image via Wikipedia As Vivek Wadhwa said in Business Week, “For the third year running, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) have taken aim at immigrant labor.” It seems that both of these senators want to “reduce the … Continue reading
Is Silicon Valley Experiencing a Brain Drain?
Image via Wikipedia For all the people who have been complaining…fearing… that foreigners take away jobs from Americans, you don’t have to worry this year and who knows about the years to come. According to Daya Baran, this year, 2009, … Continue reading
Is the US making a mistake limiting H-1B visas?
Image by Pesky Library via Flickr The New York Times is currently featuring a series on skilled foreign-born workers and their limited access to H-1B visas. The Times raises the question whether these highly skilled foreign-born workers plus foreign students … Continue reading
Visualization of Web 2.0 – Conversation Prism/Solis
I think the way Brian Solis makes social media touchable for all of us is just amazing. Here is his conversation prism guide to social media. He says: You + Me + Mutual Value =