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If You Really Want to Change the World: A Guide to Creating, Building, and Sustaining Breakthrough Ventures

Release date: 25 October 2015
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Silicon Valleys popular approach to creating new ventures is rooted in trial and errortest markets with new concepts and a minimum amount of capital, and hope for valuable businesses to emerge.

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Title: If You Really Want to Change the World: A Guide to Creating, Building, and Sustaining Breakthrough Ventures
Author: Norman Winarsky Henry Kressel
Publisher: PRH
SKU: BK0486048
EAN: 9781625278296
Number Of Pages: 256
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover
Release date: 25 October 2015

About Author

Norman Winarsky is past President of SRI Ventures at SRI International, a world-renowned research institute founded by Stanford University in 1946. He has been a founder and leader of SRI's venture strategy and process, which has resulted in more than sixty ventures worth over $20 billion, including companies such as Nuance, Intuitive Surgical, and Siri. Norman helped create and build companies in areas ranging from artificial intelligence, natural language, and computer vision, to medical devices, robotics, and nanotechnology. He has been a board member or board adviser to many of these companies. He was a cofounder and board member of Siri, which was spun out from SRI in January 2008 and acquired by Apple in April 2010. Siri has become a worldwide phenomenon, establishing the breakthrough market category of virtual personal assistant. Before joining SRI, Norman was vice president of the Mathematics and Computer Science division at RCA Laboratories and Sarnoff Laboratories. He was also a visiting scholar at Stanford University, an invited member of the mathematics department of the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey, and a mathematics professor at the State University of New York at Albany. In 2000, Norman and his team won an Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in technological advancement, specifically "a unique technology to predict how viewers will perceive the quality of digitally processed TV images or still pictures". In addition, he has received RCA Laboratories' highest honor, the Sarnoff Award. Norman works with entrepreneurs, startups, research institutes, and major companies to create breakthrough ventures or products. He also advises them on the framework and practice for successful innovation. He has been a keynote speaker at hundreds of corporations, institutes, and universities. Norman earned the BA, MS, and PhD degrees in mathematics from the University of Chicago, with highest honors. He lives in Palo Alto, CA with his wife Lisbeth. His children Hanne, David, and Peter, and their families, also reside in the Bay area. Dr. Kressel served as a senior partner and managing director at Warburg Pincus, a major international private equity firm, for over thirty years where he focused on technology and communications investments. He has led investments in over thirty companies in a wide range of industries, many of which became publicly traded. These have ranged from startups to multibillion revenues enterprises which have established themselves as leaders in their industries. Before joining Warburg Pincus, he was the vice president at RCA Laboratories responsible for the worldwide research and development of microelectronics, power electronics and associated software. Dr. Kressel holds 31 U.S. patents covering various key electronic and optoelectronic devices. He pioneered the development and commercial introduction of the first semiconductor lasers, which are the basis of fiber optic communications systems, DVDs and other consumer, industrial and military products. He is the recipient of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) David Sarnoff Award for contributions to electronic devices. A graduate of Yeshiva College, Dr. Kressel received an M.S. from Harvard University, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and a doctorate in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and is the founding president of IEEE Photonics Society. Dr. Kressel has served in an advisory capacity to NASA, the U.S. Air Force and the National Science Foundation. He is the author of five books.

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