blog villoslado http://www.blogvilloslado.com all about tech, economics, and venture capital Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:50:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Apple’s Jony Ive gets knighthood http://www.blogvilloslado.com/2011/12/31/apples-jony-ive-gets-knighthood/ http://www.blogvilloslado.com/2011/12/31/apples-jony-ive-gets-knighthood/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:36:28 +0000 Gerardo Villoslado http://www.blogvilloslado.com/?p=115 Jonathan Ive, Apple’s head of design, has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours list and made a Knight Commander of the British Empire.

Mr. Ive began working for Apple in 1992 and since then has been the brains behind many of its products. He has been lauded for the tight fit between form and function seen in Apple gadgets such as the iPod and iPhone.

He studied industrial design at Northumbria Polytechnic and, on graduation, he started work as a commercial designer. Then, with three friends, founded a design agency called Tangerine. One of the clients for the agency was Apple which was so impressed with the work he did on a prototype notebook that it offered him a full-time job.

Steve Jobs described Mr. Ive as his “spiritual partner” in the recent biography of the Apple co-founder written by Walter Isaacson. However, it also said that Mr. Ive was “hurt” by Jobs taking credit for innovations that came from the design team.

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Wharton finance professor Franklin Allen and Wharton management professor Mauro Guillen talk about causes and cures, barriers to long-term solutions and the cultural differences that always lie under the surface.

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]]> http://www.blogvilloslado.com/2011/12/07/zvi-eckstein-shares-his-view-on-economic-hot-spots/feed/ 0 Top 10 MBAs in the US in 2011 http://www.blogvilloslado.com/2011/12/07/top-10-mbas-in-the-us/ http://www.blogvilloslado.com/2011/12/07/top-10-mbas-in-the-us/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:10:47 +0000 Gerardo Villoslado http://www.blogvilloslado.com/?p=98 Wharton is one of the very best schools inside the US. For years, Wharton’s strength in finance has overshadowed faculty and programs in other departments. That’s no longer true, and hasn’t been for some time. If you’re not yet sure what you want to concentrate in and want to insure you have a deep dive in virtually any subject, consider Wharton.

As of December 2011, these are the most important MBA rankings:

FT.com

  1. LBS
  2. Wharton
  3. Harvard
  4. INSEAD
  5. Stanford
  6. HKUST
  7. Columbia
  8. IE
  9. IESE
  10. MIT Sloan
 BusinessWeek

  1. Booth
  2. Harvard
  3. Wharton
  4. Kellogg
  5. Stanford
  6. Fuqua
  7. Michigan
  8. Berkeley
  9. Columbia
  10. MIT Sloan
 US News

  1. Stanford
  2. Harvard
  3. MIT
  4. Wharton
  5. Kellogg
  6. Booth
  7. Tuck
  8. Berkeley
  9. Columbia
  10. NYU
 Economist

  1. Tuck
  2. Booth
  3. IMD
  4. Darden
  5. Harvard
  6. Berkeley
  7. Columbia
  8. Stanford
  9. York
  10. IESE
 Forbes

  1. Harvard
  2. Stanford
  3. Booth
  4. Wharton
  5. Columbia
  6. Tuck
  7. Kellogg
  8. Cornell
  9. Darden
  10. MIT Sloan
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Marc Andreessen, Keith Rabois, and Ron Conway were present at the event. This event functions as a foresighted form of lead generation. These are the 30 startups Goldman Sachs has designated as potential IPO candidates and it wants to make a relationship as early on as possible.

  • Rovio
  • Shopkick
  • Specific Media
  • Survey Mokey
  • Square
  • TrialPay
  • Trunk Club
  • Tumblr
  • Uber
  • Warby Parker
  • WePay
  • Xoom
  • ZocDoc
  • Zoosk

* Check this one out!

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In a 2009 talk, he said what it’s like to start a tech company. He also discusses what it was like during the dot-com bubble and eventual burst, blaming it on technology not being quite there yet to support all of the great ideas.

It’s a must-watch for entrepreneurs.

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This strategy is a way to strengthen its online offerings and to gain a stronger stance in mobile and tablet form factors. The company is financially prepared to grow its own revenues and customer base, and looking externally towards M&A and has the capital and debt ratio to do so.

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Launched in 2009, Austin-based Gowalla went head-to-head with direct rival Foursquare and lost. The site had raised around $10 million over the years from backers including the Founders Fund, Greylock Partners and a collection of angel investors.

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Internships are one of the best ways for job candidates to prove themselves in their targeted industry. The employment of interns as full-time hires was notable in both the consulting and high tech sectors, with a 70% rate of hire for interns.

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Abbott has a deep background in social and mobile applications and infrastructure, and is an expert in enterprise infrastructure and cloud computing and big data businesses. At KPCB he fill focus on investments in startups in the social, mobile, and cloud arenas. He will be just the third senior partner added in three years, joining Bing Gordon and Mary Meeker.

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