Silicon Valley entrepreneur and MIT and Harvard graduate John Chisholm wrote this public letter. Re-posted here with permission. In the last few days, I have heard from more alumni (and non-alumni) than I can recall at any time since my term as alumni president/chair. Their reaction to the cancellation of Professor Abbot’s Carlson Lecture ranges […]
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[This lecture is part 2 of the Entrepreneurship and Values Series and was recorded at Rockford University and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.] Unleash Your Inner Company by John Chisholm Hello, I am John Chisholm and I am here at Rockford University in Rockford, Illinois at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship to talk about
CEE’s Entrepreneurship and Values series includes seven 15-20-minute lectures on foundational issues in entrepreneurship. 1. What Is Entrepreneurship? 2. Unleash Your Inner Company 3. Management and Entrepreneurship 4. What Makes Entrepreneurs Tick? 5. Entrepreneurship and Virtue Ethics 6. Entrepreneurship and Liberty 7. Entrepreneurship and Public Policy The lecturers are all entrepreneurs or university professors —
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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: Our guest today is John Chisholm. John is a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, now based in San Francisco, involved in a number of ventures. And he was here today talking to the Business and Economic Ethics
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Entrepreneurial Software The latest issue of Kaizen [pdf] features my interview with Zoltan Cendes. We met in Naples, Florida, to discuss Mr. Cendes’s experience founding Ansoft, a $900 million software company that revolutionized engineering modeling. My favorite images from this issue show the uses of Ansoft’s software in improving the air and fluid dynamics for
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In this 20-minute “Unleash Your Inner Company” talk, entrepreneur John Chisholm (San Francisco) discusses: * the values that motivate entrepreneurs; * the mutually-reinforcing traits of passion and perseverance; * finding unique customers needs; * fitting those needs to one’s own uniqueness, strengths, and weakness; * how entrepreneurs are leaders; * his own entrepreneurial experiences; *
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Stephen Hicks interview with Silicon Valley entrepreneur John Chisholm at Rockford University.
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John Chisholm is a serial entrepreneur based in San Francisco. He graduated from MIT and Harvard and then worked for Hewlett-Packard before starting his own companies, Decisive Technology and CustomerSat. I interviewed him for Kaizen in 2010. Here is his “Release Your Inner Company” TedX talk from 2011, in which he shares lessons of success
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