I felt a but of nostalgia when I received the following email : “The idea of doing a book on semiconductor startup had been teasing me for a while, I finally found a longtime buddy who has been okay with doing this book over the past 2 years. We were greatly assisted in this mission […]
(Sorry I was too fast, this should have been posted on the French version… where it is also now. For non French-speaking readers, this post is about new management techniques that were born in Silicon Valley…) J’étais invité ce matin à débattre des méthodes de travail et de management (y compris “l’utilisation du bonheur”) importées […]
I began to read Eloge du Carburateur – Essai sur le sens et la valeur du travail (translated from the American essay Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work) by Matthew B. Crawford. I wrote a first post about why I began that book here. Here is an interesting critique of […]
Following a long phone conversation with a Swiss entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, I received from him an email where he put his thoughts. They are indeed quite interesting and he authorized me to publish them: “It’s a bit depressing to see that things change slowly (I had that intuition already)… On a philosophical standpoint, […]
No better way to begin a blog on the Start-up book but talking about Steve Jobs. Jobs made a brilliant speech about why life is a treasure. I see it as an illustration of why start-ups are about individuals. The Stanford Web site provides the text and video. Below is my French translation of his […]