Wharton organized Business Plan Competition announced the 2008 Venture winner to be Solixia . Brian Smith, the inventor of the technology, & his team mate Irene Susantio earned US $ 20,000 in cash & services. The team is still completing their second year MBA degree & wants to work full time on the Solixia technology in the future. Winning the prestigious Venture Finals helps them to socialize the technology & its potential market to woo financiers.

There are a few lectures that stick to your mind for good reasons. Because you can easily relate to them. These are stories from someone’s life that does not seem much different from ours. Every moment of the lecture you hear something that has probably happened to you so many times. The fact that someone, just like you and me, have withstood challenges and have come out successful to be one of the best, is remarkable.
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Amy Tan’s profile is very humble. Born to immigrant Chinese parents, she was prepared …

We all know Mena Trott from Six Apart . Back in 2002, she and her husband Ben founded Six Apart blogging platform which now is an international organization. In this brief on TED, Mena Trott goes back to when she first started blogging. It was not the advertising money that she could earn that tempted her. It was her will to write and express about herself and her life to her friends that made her write on DollarShort .

It’s 4 straight hours of Short Films, Live Music and extra ordinary visions shared all across the world on May 10th 2008 , starting at 1800 GMT. The team has made every effort so that you would not miss the event - its available on locations, on TV, on the internet and even on mobile phones. The event will be broadcast live from six locations worldwide: Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro.
Pangea is about transformation. Pangea is about a wish come true. Pangea is about people …

This presentation from Larry Page & Sergey Brin, the co-founders of the multi billion dollars international corporation Google, is from 2004. Though it apparently outdated in terms of the company’s progress and achievements within the subsequent years, it still talks about the fundamental beliefs of the founders of the organization.

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The founders talk about how their Montessori background has led to the stead fast growth of the company and has continued …

Fighting the popular idea of selling and marketing what people wants, Seth Godin goes ahead to point out that it could be an immense success to sell to a niche segment. Referring specifically to blogging, niche blogging has always been very successful. And I am counting success when you have dedicated readership who engages with the authors regularly and pushes the boundary. They move the authors and creators out of their comfort zone thereby pushing them to be more creative.