TBT, TEDGlobal in Oxford, England
Ted.com director June Cohen speaking at the Sheldonian, a "secular cathedral" — at Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, England, 2009.
Harry Potter breakfast at TEDGlobal, Oxford — at Keble College.
TED reception at Natural History Museum — at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Punting on the Cherwell, TED closing lunch — at Cherwell Boathouse.
Reception at Bodleian library exam hall — at Bodleian Libraries.
Love hanging with my fellow mentors, program leads, & university observers!
Fun dinner with chief mentors, VCs, university observers, life coaches & family from the European @innovationacademy in Turin!! Photos by Radha! #eiamoments #eia2017italy#eia2017turin #accelerator #startups#entrepreneurship #Torino #Turin
TBT, talking change with Cigdem Kobu of AYearWithMyself
...this was part of Cigdem's program for introverted creative solopreneurs. (2012)
TBT, to Canada soft launch of a social publishing app
TBT, 2014: Sneak peek... we go live in the Canada app store this month to beta test this new social networking app for collaborating on your life stories with your favorite people.
Early supporter of TEDx events
The TEDx initiative was launched the years when I was attending TEDGlobal so I attended then first three TEDx gatherings in Istanbul.
TBT, Intel interviews me about tech & Turkish culture
Thanks to Ken E Kaplan for interviewing me about how tech and Turkish culture come together!
What we mean when we say "Berkeley"
Much of what I and my Berkeley-native peers experienced growing up there was being duplicated in alternative communities everywhere, and also much of it was a product of the times. We didn't know that.
Berkeley is revealed in its "byzantine cultural complexity" by secular Jewish homegirl author of new book about going undercover in Jerry Falwell's evangelical church.
"If you’re from Berkeley...you know the muscle of the Berkeley Left is actually made up of a million fibers, often flexing at cross purposes — the Green Partiers, the Clintonites, the Obamaphiles, the Slow Foodists and Dumpster Divers, the Second and Third Wave feminists, the Marxists, anarchists, and Revolutionary Communists, the vaguely apathetic left-leaners, the merely apathetic."
"The first time I saw a bowl of table grapes I had a panic attack. ~ KOKO MULDER"
Connecting through social media with the diaspora of Berkeley kids, and comparing our upbringings. Read the New York Times article here.
TBT, Michael Margolis's Reinvention Summit
Seems everyone's looking for the root of meaning -- encapsulated in this storytelling tidbit from Michael Margolis' REINVENTION SUMMIT of 2010 -- including the first retweeter Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media, called 'the smartest man in publishing' by Seth Godin.
Chief Mentor Again At This Extreme International Startup Program
Pleased to be returning for the second summer as a chief mentor to the European Innovation Academy!
I'll be joining the Turin, Italy campus of this extreme international startup education program, as entrepreneurship educator Ken Singer of UC Berkeley describes it.
Joining ITUGate as a mentor
Happy to join the global mentors of Istanbul Technical University's International Start-Up Acceleration Program ITUGATE. During their six month stay in San Francisco this year, I'll be mentoring a set of technology-producing companies and entrepreneurs entering the US & international markets.
Read more about ITU ARI Teknokent's program to help companies to enter the US market and to provide access to Silicon Valley. It's based at Galvanize, one of the best startup centers in San Francisco.
Back at The Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Bootcamp!
Great experience mentoring and judging the pitches of student entrepreneurs from around the world at this week's bootcamp on the UC Berkeley campus!
Here's the director of the program Gigi Wang laying out the goals of the bootcamp.
Congratulations to Acuity, the team I mentored and my cojudge Rick Rasmussen and I sent to the finals.
Watch the pitch battle here: https://www.facebook.com/UCBerkeleyCET/videos/1232326256848097/