Chris Kuenne speaks Monday, November 18 at the Princeton Tech meetup . The topic: the Growth Playbook: 5 Cornerstones to Live By. Highly recommended… Kuenne’s latest venture: Rosemark Capital.
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Two headlines for the same medical report:
The Associated Press headline: New medical guidelines urge wider use of cholesterol drugs
The New York Times headline: Experts Reshape Treatment Guide for Cholesterol; Change in Statins’ Use; 2 groups see no need to drop to a specific level of LDL.
Marilynn Marchionne, the AP writer, starts out by saying that the edict calls for “twice as many Americans — one-third of all adults — to consider taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.” In other words, more use of drugs. In the fourth paragraph, she quotes a doctor saying the emphasis is to treat more appropriately.
Gina Kolata, the Princeton-based New York Times science writer, opens with a blander statement about the new guidelines. In her fourth paragraph, she quotes a doctor saying, “now one in four Americans over 40 will be saying, ‘Should I be taking this anymore?’ ”
The AP seems to emphasize MORE use of the drug, Kolata in the New York Times, by quoting the doctor on the front page “above the fold” seems to emphasize LESS use of the drug.
Why does this matter? Will the NYT reader welcome news of fewer drugs? Is it that the Associated Press reader (and the reader of Yahoo and other websites) will want to take more drugs?
It all goes back to what my father told me, all the time. “Nothing is ever completely true or ever completely false.”
And I’m just glad I’m not a health reporter.
How to Identify White Space
A startup is not a company? No, says David Teten, Partner at ff Venture Capital; Founder and Chairman, Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York. He speaks Thursday, November 14, at 4:30 p.m. at the Friend Center Convocation Room (113) for the Keller Center.
He will address the importance of market research in starting a business, identifying proper audiences for your product, and ways to reach out to particular people. After conducting research on best practices for deal origination, David found that venture capitalists only invest in one out of every one hundred startups that present pitches to them. Entrepreneurs should be nimble, listening to the market and acting according to the data they collect. A startup is not a company; rather, it is a group of people in search of a business model on which they can build a company.
Breakfast with the real Tony Auth
“I don’t try to be balanced,” says former Inquirer cartoonist Tony Auth. “I try to tell the truth as I see it.” Auth will speak and show his Pulitzer Prize-winning drawings at the Princeton Chamber’s breakfast this Wednesday, November 13 at 7:30 a.m. at the Nassau Club. Cost: $25 for members.
For an example of his work, here is his cut-to-the-bone Veteran’s Day cartoon. Now Auth is digital artist-in-residence for WHYY’s NewsWorks.org blog, Behind the Lines, where he uses a $5 app on his iPad to pioneer in online cartooning. After appearing on NewsWorks, his cartoons are syndicated across the country. His topic on Wednesday: Sacred Cows Make the Best Hamburger: A political cartoonists observations of the absurdities and ridiculousness of the past several years.
For more than 40 years Inquirer readers “had breakfast” with his cartoons. Now we can have breakfast with the real Tony Auth.
Tusculum Sold for $5.5
On the Block: Tusculum, the historic home of John Witherspoon. sold for $5.5 million at auctionaccording to a tweet, last night, from the head of Concierge Auctions. I have not confirmed that price with the auctioneer or the real estate company, Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s, as of this morning.
Tom and Avril Moore bought it in 1996.
Moore is the former CEO of Advaxis He was replaced by Daniel O’Connor in August.
Here are details of the property Continue reading Tusculum Sold for $5.5
One Simple Wish: one dynamic woman
Danielle Gletow is one of the most compelling speakers I have ever heard. Shown above on the left at a WIBA event, she speaks at the Princeton Chambertoday, November 7, at the lunch at the Forrestal Marriott.
Formerly a marketing executive at Rosetta, She has a heartrending story about foster care but is doing an amazing job, through the charity she founded (One Simple Wish) of helping children in foster care. You’ll be glad you heard this CNN Hero, who says “achievement should be measured in love — how much you are willing to give.”
Creative Minds at the Keller Center
The Creative Mind: Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Lecture Series
Thurs, Nov 7th 4:30pm
Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Panel Discussion with Trey Bowles; Co-Founder and CEO of Dallas Entrepreneur Center, Michael Goldberg; Co-Founder and managing Partner of Bridge Investment Fund, LP, and Waine Tam; Co-Founder of Learn CS101. Computer Science Building Room 105
Future dates:
Saturday, November 9, at 1 p.m.
Faith and Ethics for Tyson Foods
Faith & Ethics in the Executive Suite: A Panel Discussion
Press release: The Princeton University Faith & Work Initiative (FWI) will host a panel discussion with Wendy Murphy, Managing Director, Chief Human Resources Officers Practice, RSR Partners; John Tyson, Chairman, Tyson Foods Inc.; and Kevin Weiss ’79, CEO, SkyMall, on November 7, 2013 at 7:00 pm, on the Princeton University campus in Lewis Library 138 (the modern building, near the intersection of Ivy Ln. and Washington Rd. in Princeton). The event will be preceded by a reception from 6:30 – 7:00 pm.
John Tyson, the grandson of the company’s founder, has been part of the company since he was a teenager, has worked in almost every department, and eventually became the company’s chief executive officer. Among other accomplishments, Tyson is known for his development of Tyson Foods’ unique set of “Core Values” and their chaplaincy program.
The panel is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Princeton University Faith & Work Initiative (http://faithandwork.princeton.edu/), with the Center for the Study of Religion (http://www.princeton.edu/csr/). For questions, please contact Anita Kline askline@princeton.edu or (609) 258-5545.
Thanks to Savraj Singh for this memo about a November 14 workshop.
“Angel Investing 101” for entrepreneurs, early-stage investors and service providers.
Date: Thursday, 11/14/13
Time: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: TigerLabs, 252 Nassau Street – Second Floor, Princeton
Panelists:
David Teten, Partner with ff Venture Capital and Founder and Chairman of the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York
Jason Glickman, Founder and Chairman, Tremor Video
Gina Tedesco, investor and founder of three successful start-ups
Allon Bloch, CEO of mysupermarket.com
Ari Raban, CEO of phone.com
Aaron Price, Entrepreneur At Large at DFJ Gotham Ventures
Registration is available at: http://www.theharvardclubofprinceton.org/article.html?aid=164
The Pinking of American Board Rooms
In today’s New York Times, in an article on narrowing the gender gap on corporate boards, the name “Maria Klawe” rang a bell. Klawe sits on two prestigious boards — Microsoft and Broadcom — and is the president of Harvey Mudd College in California. But she used to be the engineering dean here at Princeton; she got in early on what malcontents called “The Pinking of Princeton University.” Early in her presidential tenure Shirley Tilghman put Klawe in charge of the E-quad.
Klawe didn’t hide the fact that she has a different working style from the male geeks. She brought her knitting to meetings. She doodled and drew during planning sessions. And instead of allowing herself to be memorialized in an oil painting, like the other white male engineering deans at the Friend Center, she painted her own self portrait — in water color (shown above).
She left Princeton for California and now, as a member of the International Women’s Forum, mentors women on the rise. “Too often,” she said in the article, “there’s a feeling that you’ve got one or two women on the board, so you don’t need another.” Whereas there are very few women directors “and there is a lot of room for more.”
There are four engineers in my immediate family, half are women. From the stories they tell, there is plenty of room for more.
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