Vivek Wadhwa will be speaking at Babson Monday night, December 7th 2009 at 6:30 pm. The topic will be “Babson, Boston, And Beyond: Globalization Facts And Myths.” For those of you who do not know of Vivek, he is not only a strong researcher of entrepreneurship at Duke and Harvard - he’s also a successful technology entrepreneur. I really respect some of the opinions he’s expressed recently on TechCrunch, even though he takes a purposefully controversial tone. One of his great posts ripped the venture capital lobby for claiming aggressive figures on how many jobs had been created by venture funds and the level of innovation that had come from venture investors. (My post in response got some good traction too.) I’m very curious to hear his take on globalization in light of his recent comments on how much better SF is than Boston for technology innovation these days.
Afterwards I may try to roll over the Webinno - and the famous after-party.
