Linus Benedict Torvalds – (born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish American software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator. He also created the revision control system Git as well as the diving log software Subsurface. He was honored, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland "in recognition of his
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Introduction to Entrepreneurship Search Funds: Buying a Business Finding an Idea Find a Team Legal Issues Business Plans Funding Managing and Growing the Venture HBS Entrepreneurs Services for Students Evaluating New Venture Opportunities Conversations with Venture Capitalists What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for
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Module VI E-Business and E-Commerce E-Business Model – – – – – – – The Storefront Model The Auction Model The Portal Model The Name-Your-Price Model The Comparison Pricing Model The Demand Sensitive Pricing model The B2B Exchange Model The storefront Model • Storefront model enables merchants to sell products on the Web – Transaction processing, security, online payment, information storage • E-commerce allows companies to conduct business 24-by-7, all day everyday, worldwide • An e-commerce
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Is the use of technologies, such as "cookies", strategic to marketing goods and services online? What is the impact, if any, on consumer privacy? A few years ago, the combination of technology and marketing was not a common term. Even a very successful marketing model that was followed by software giant Microsoft, was neglected in many top ranking business schools. According to them what Microsoft was doing was a fad. But time has proved that they were wrong. Marketing guru Kotler has agreed
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CHAPTER – 1 INTRODUCTION TO INTERNET WHAT IS A NETWORK? [pic] A network is a group of computers that are able to communicate with one another and share data, files, programs, and operations. The computers in a network are connected via hardware and software. The hardware is what physically connects the computers in the network together. For example: telephone lines, fibre-optic cables, routers and gateways, and the computers themselves. The software is what enables us to use the hardware
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1) Introduction to HTML: It stands for hyper text markup language. It was created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, the European Laboratory for Practical Physics in Geneva. HTML is a special formatting language that defines the appearance and contents of a webpage. Its specific syntax rules allow you to define the placement and format of the text, graphics, sound and videos on the webpage. HTML is one of the most commonly used interface language used now a days for the web. 2) Terminology: a)
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Ghada Sabbagha Nehme Mansourieh - Lebanon ghadanehme14@gmail.com M: 961 3 817028 40 years old – Married with 2 children Profile Overview / Areas of expertise: Able to set priorities, especially under time pressure and know when to take appropriate action; Able to work independently and take initiative; self driven and act in a pro-active way. Have an eye for detail and an analytical mindset. Is a team player and work with an environment of different nationalities. Multilingual;
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Then, as in the early 80s, when Microsoft were instrumental in the first truly personal computer - the mass-market computer, Microsoft truly brought computing to the masses. For the first time, the elderly, the young, and the technically illiterate were empowered to use computers. Although computers still betrayed some of their arcane origins of a time when computing was the real of those with genius IQs and degrees in mathematics, the computer was now almost as much a part of the home as the television
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Shihab Syed Thomas Edison said, "I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work." Thomas Edison is well known for his innovations and his entrepreneurial success. After reading his quote I must ask myself, whether it is financially viable for me as an entrepreneur to take on Edison’s somewhat’ overly’ optimistic approach entrepreneurialism . In the last decade the removal of inter-country barriers, the ease of access to
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