Category: motivation

  • Steve Ballmer/ having fun while changing the world!

    This is a parody video made by Steve Ballmer in 1986 to promote Windows 1.0, the first graphical user interface for personal computers. This is the charismatic energy of an entrepreneur, more powerful than nuclear energy, pushing his product to the world, although it was shown internally at Microsoft and not intended for public release.…

  • Sending Firouz Naderi Positive Energy

    I’m very sad to hear about Dr. Firouz Michael Naderi‘s complete paralysis because of an accident yesterday. He is an Iranian American scientist who had 36 years of technical and executive roles at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and helped with some of America’s most amazing robotic space missions. He is the symbol of a successful…

  • Saying NO is courageous.

    Yesterday at the IBM MassChallenge lunch I asked, “We in the startup community tend to talk a lot about how to get YES from investors, but getting a NO is equally important.” and as Rich Maloy well-said, the second most important thing you can hear from an investor is a NO. The consensus is that…