Posts Tagged ‘big companies’
Dr Shai Vyakarnam comments about questions raised about the recent acquisition of Cambridge software firm Autonomy including the valuation, selling off to a US company and the tensions with Oracle. He remains optimistic about the future of Autonomy.
7 October 2011 Tags: Acorn, acquisition, Autonomy, big companies, business, business angels, business education, cambridge Judge Business School, centre for entrepreneurial learning, commercialisation, enterprise, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, investments, Mike Lynch, serial entrepreneurs, Shai Vyakarnam, shareholders, silicon fen, silicon valley, success, valuation, ventures
Posted in entrepreneurship
Dr Shai Vyakarnam was challenged with this question on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme (19 Aug) as Cambridge software firm Autonomy, founded by entrepreneur Dr Mike Lynch OBE, is sold to Hewlett Packard for around $7billion. Is this another UK tech firm losing its independence to a US giant multinational or a great entrepreneurial success story that’s good for Cambridge and the UK economy?
19 August 2011 Tags: AbCam, Autonomy, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Today, big companies, business, business education, cambridge, cambridge Judge Business School, centre for entrepreneurial learning, CEO, CfEL, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, entrepreneurial journey, entrepreneurial spirit, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, Hewlett Packard, innovation, innovative start ups, Mike Lynch, real products, sale, silicon fen, software business, stock options, tech companies, value chain
Posted in entrepreneurship, Uncategorized
7th April 2011 By: Orsolya Ihasz Empowering people in the MENA region through Enterprisers It’s all over the news these days. Something new, something big, is happening in the Middle East. The winds of change are blowing. A generation of young, energetic people are starting to set the agenda. These people have ideas. Some have [...]
7 April 2011 Tags: big companies, CfEL, creativity, education, entrepreneurship, innovation, Middle East, motivation
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The usual answer to this question and it is a fair one – is that unless big companies are interested in being innovative and sustaining the entrepreneurial spirit they will get wiped out. There may well be some truth in this – because mature organizations get into a kind of stasis with their product lines, [...]
3 July 2008 Tags: big companies, corporates, entrepreneurship, innovation
Posted in Archive 2008
