Private Equity and Venture Capital Panel: New Cycle, New Paradigm, New Landscape
Anla Cheng of Sino-Century
increase in PE fund managers – going for pre IPO deals increase in general partners “There’s too much money chasing for too few good companies.” this may be the reason for an “increase in art sales” and [...]
Opening Keynote – Frank Newman
Spoke on how he turned Shenzhen Development bank into a highly profitable organization. He notes it is one of the few banks that is not state owned.
Main changes he made
-sent out bonus plans to have the branches vet them.
-printed a formal code of [...]
Columbia Business School is hosting a conference on business in China.
I am most interested in the talks on venture capital, entrepreneurship, and cleantech.
My Goals:
Understand more about entrepreneurship (and VC) in the context of China.
Understand more about VC (and how that can be blended with IB).
Identify opportunities for (devel and [...]
The New York City event for the Global Service Jam was organized and hosted by Cameron Tonkinwise.
In 48 hours, cities around the world held local events to ideate and “develop brand new services inspired by a shared theme” of superheroes. Participants came from companies including DEGW, Moment, Co-Op, [...]
IxDA EVENT INFORMATION
Yesterday IxDA held an experimental evening of panel-oke, a form of participatory panel that takes a fresh look at the traditional panel structure of questioner, panel, and audience.
Unlike traditional discussion panels, panel-oke audience members become part of the panel itself as soon as they ask a question. The person who [...]
DESIS Lab Presents Service Design Performances – Spring 11 Series SERVICE DESIGN: MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS With Andy Polaine Date: Monday, February 14, 2011 Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm Location: 80 5th Avenue, 8th Floor, Room 802, NY Service Design is more than the sum of its methods, blueprints and customer journey maps. [...]
DREAM:IN Conclave
To read the common dreams of India and develop big ideas for business, policy, development and sustainable change, and work towards realizing them, leaders and design experts from India, USA, Brazil and Italy will be joining us at the conclave from 16th to 19th February 2011. The DREAM:IN Conclave will bring together [...]
Earlier this year DREAM:IN, an international inititative was started by Carlos Teixeira and Sonia Manchanda in conjunction with idiom and support by Bruce Nussbaum. See below for original details.
DREAM:IN is a platform for engaging local design expertise globally.
The DREAM:IN Project challenges one and all, to begin the creation process, not from people’s needs but [...]
“On 11 March, 2011, people interested in service and customer experience will meet at locations all over the globe.
They will be designers, students, academics, business people, and customers.
In a spirit of experimentation, innovation, co-operation and friendly competition, teams will have less than 48 hours to develop and prototype completely new services inspired [...]
