This morning, Sotheby’s New York sold an Apple Computer for $374,500—more than twice its high estimate of $180,000—in its Fine Books & Manuscripts sale. The computer, a 1976 Apple I, one of the first compact model computer that could be used by non-experts to type on a keyboard and operate basic programs, ushered in the era of personal computing.
Our goal teaching for the National Science Foundation was to make a dent in the universe.
Could we actually teach tenured faculty how to turn an idea into a company? And if we did, could it change their lives?
We can now answer these questions.
Hell yes.
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The Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Over the last 6 months, we’ve been teaching a version of the Lean LaunchPad class for the…
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FORTUNE -- Edited down to 2 minutes for your convenience, author Malcolm Gladwell's provocative remarks about which entrepreneurs will be remembered 50 years from now and which forgotten:
http://youtu.be/6FrnyIUVrHw
In a nutshell, the bestselling author (Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers) and high-end public speaker (top fee: $
AllThingsD just posted clips of almost the entire Apple CEO Tim Cook interview from D10. Our live blog of the event is here. The first video (above) is Cook's comments on former CEO Steve Jobs as a "flip-flopper," followed by a second video (below) where he discussed tablets and the PC legacy.
Links to the rest of the videos are below, where Cook talks about doubling down on privacy, the "Pain in the ass" patent wars, etc.
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FORTUNE -- First you have to find which of the Smithsonian's 19 museums houses the Steve Jobs' exhibit that opened last week -- not an easy task for someone unfamiliar with the monumental geography of Washington D.C.
Then, once you locate the Ripley Center -- a tiny circular building, just to the right of the Institute's big red castle -- and subject your backpack to the usual weapons search, you still have to ask (because there is no sign) where you can find
The 1999 made-for-television movie about how Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple, and their impact on the development of the personal computer. Along the way they establish close relations to Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen of Microsoft. The film follow both personal and professional events, spanning from the early 1970s to 1997.
Young Steve Jobs discussing business strategy with early employees at the company he co-founded in 1985, NeXT. Good stuff.
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«No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.»
Steve Jobs, 2005.
Source: Apple.
The 10 Commandments:
Source: Newsweek.
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The first Macintosh, released in 1984. Image via Wikipedia.
Steve Jobs surprised the audience by taking the stage to present the next version of Apple’s iPad tablet. The iPad 2, which has two cameras, will go on sale March 11 and will start at $499. More from the Wall Street Journal here.
Nifty infograph:
[via OnSwipe & The Big Picture]
Steve Jobs at the WWDC 07. Image via Wikipedia
Buffett’s NetJets Orders Up to 120 Bombardier Business Jets.
Warren Buffett: Economy Is Improving Slowly.
Bernanke returns to Congress for take two of his semi-annual testimony:
Bernanke Signals No Rush to Tighten When Asset-Buying Ends.
Oil Market is Barometer for Stocks.
ADP Estimates U.S. Companies Added 217,000 Jobs in February.
At 1:00pm ET, inside San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center.
[via CNBC]
The graphs above are from The Wall Street Jourals summary of the financial events in 2010. Story: Bumpy Climb for Stocks in 2010.
Financial Times has also made a neat overview of numbers that mattered the past year here: 2010 in figures: what it all adds up to.
Year To Date Relative Futures Performance [Chart via Finviz.com]
(Good thing palladium isn’t important for much):
Sara Grillo CFA of Diamond Oak Capital Advisors thinks: Now Is The The Right Time To Buy Cheap Shipping Stocks.
Mark Zuckerberg by jdlasica via Flickr
Another brilliant comment from Shaun Rein on starting up a business:
All too often they let naysayers discourage them, they fail to listen to market demands, and they don’t delegate enough.
Full article via Forbes here.
“Apple’s iPhone business continues to surge. The company’s phone division is now by far its biggest: An $8.8 billion business last quarter, representing more than 43% of Apple’s overall sales, and growing more than 90% year-over-year.”
More via The Business Insider here.
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