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Realizing your Visions via
Entrepreneurship
British Chamber of Commerce, Luxembourg
25 October 2006
Candace Johnson
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SES/ASTRA SES/GLOBAL
First private TV satellite in Europe ( 1983-1985 )
Monopoly Breaking Happy Day ( Ann Glover)
The Digital Revolution Takeover (1993 1994)
SES Global (1997/1998 2000 )
Being at the top is slippery and dangerous. You must constantly go
Forward and be smarter, quicker, more innovative. Or you can
Sell out.
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The Life of a TelecomsEntrepreneur
25 years ago
15 years ago
5 years ago
Today
I always stayed the same, but the perception of me,
Telecommunications and entrepreneurship changed !!
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Seven steps to become an
Entrepreneur or an EntrepreneurialOrganization
Take the freedom to believe, that if you work good and
hard, you will succeed.
Think barrierless - Why does this not exist?, Why dontwe do this?
Set up a business plan - is it profitable?
Bring the business plan to someone, who can help you.
Never accept no as an answer, never give up, never goaway, even if others want you to
Turners rule: Lead, follow or get out of the way
The customer is always right
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Fostering and Encouraging Creativity
and Innovation within yourself andwithin an organization
Two anecdotes
90% hard work and 10% genius
Be in touch with your inner self and the inner self of others
(concentration not intuition)
Being confident but not arrogant
Being 100% open to all the stimuli around you, having a good memory
and connecting the data (object oriented technology)
Being solution-oriented
Personal Responsibility
Seeking out and learning from others - being part of a brain trust.
Mastering the subject so well the magic, the artistry takes place.
Serving the idea and not vice versa
If you have 2 or 3 good ideas in life that is a lot.
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Knowledge, Innovation and
Entrepreneurship
Flexible, lateral, fluid, quick thinking -
maximizing information and communication to
create knowledge.
Collective intelligence.
Multi-lateral, multi-stimuli games - chess
Education, life-long learning - the Student is theTeacher but the Values and Responsibilities
belong to us all as global citizens
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Some personal insights from my life
as an entrepreneur:
Business plans for lemonade stands / Marketing plan for class officer elections / an
incorporating companies
Vision of international peace through communication
Just do it
An extreme sense of responsibility
Essentially lazy
Long-term planning
Lots of ideas but very careful about the ones I choose to implement because of a
100% commitment to the idea.
Never give up . Never accept no for an answer and never go away, even when
they want you to.
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Entrepreneurship: Some Personal Case
Histories
- SES/ASTRA-SES Global
- Loral CyberStar-Teleport Europe- Europe Online
- Iridium
- Global Telecom Womens Network
- VATM
- Johnson Paradigm Ventures
- Social Entrepreneurship Essential Entrepreneurship
- Festival of the Fourth Dimension
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SES/ASTRA SES/GLOBAL
First private TV satellite in Europe ( 1983-1985 )
Monopoly Breaking
Happy Day ( Ann Glover)
Prag and Mr. Werner
The Digital Revolution Takeover (1993 1994)
SES Global (1997/1998 2000 ) (Arcelor-Mittal)
Gave way to other companies as promised to Mr. Werner
Angels Count de Kergorlay, Jan Stenbeck, gave way to Banks
all helping (Skype The Luxembourg Model)
You must constantly go forward and be smarter, quicker, more
innovative.
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Teleport Europe 1989/1991
First private trans-border communications in Europe
Monopoly Breaking
11 months profitable and biggest Sat Tel provider in Europe:
Renault, REWE, AmWay, VW, Hoyer, CitiBank,
Big European companies sold out to Loral I stayed (1996)
Pillar of recovery for Loral
Reunion every year of Russians, Poles, Germans, French, who
got their chance and went on.
All installed networks are still in place 15 years later !
It was more fun and I can still add value, hands-off
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Europe Online 1994-1998-2002
Started it three times! (But so was Astra!)
Worlds first Internet-based Online Service
Worlds first Satellite Broadband Internet in theSky Service P-P, File Fetch, IP TV, VoD,DMR, and VoIP
Started the revolution in Europe but others tookadvantage of it Time
Proud that EOL employees went on to AOL, T-Online, MSN, Discovery, Amazon, Astra, etc.
Europe Online still lives and is on threesatellites so I am happy.
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Global Telecom Womens Network - 1993
The changing culture of communications
Women at the Top then and now Janice Hughes, Bridget Cosgrave,
Ann Glover, Julie Meyer
Best Business Practices across sectors and countries
Networking, networking, and networking
Vodafone sponsored 10th Anniversary at the ITU with 182 young
Telecom Women Entrepreneurs in 2003
At the 3GSM, Qualcomm-sponsored event with new global applications for
Africa and best practices from Asia - WOW
- At 3GSM Asia, the GTWN joined with the GSMA to rid the world of the
Digital Divide
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VATM Association of Private Telecom
Operators - 1992
Fair Competition at a time competition did not exist!
Codes of Conduct for a Market Economy
Land-Breaking Ruling against the Deutsche Telekom and illegal
subsidies Interconnect Agreements
Today, the VATM is the keeper of the flame for consumers in
Germany for network inter-operability, number portability.
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IRIDIUM 1994/1996, 2000 and Today
Worlds first Mobile Satellite Telephony
Beautiful, global concept
Greed
Terrible Business Plan
Went belly-up and I went back to help in 2000
For 9/11 and Katarina, the only communications that worked. Today is
profitable.
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Johnson Paradigm Ventures
Incubation, Venture Capital and MBO
Sophia EuroLab AXA, Caisse des Depots,Bayerische Landesbank, Johnson Paradigm
Ariadne Capital
FMN/AlphaCom
Blue H Group
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Festival of the Fourth Dimension
Entrepreneurship B
lend ofA
rt,T
echnology andScience: :
Transformation from an Idea to Reality
Telecommunications were becoming too commercial, banal, and retail-oriented
Europes first Technology Park, Sophia Antipolis was resting on itslaurels and was becoming inward-instead of outward looking
Telecommunications was becoming three-dimensional: content, form,and destination I wanted to give it a Fourth Dimension (transportationof brain waves, new space which we would create where all dimensionswould meet and communicate amongst each other)
True Cross Border of Dimensions Fusion of Art, Science and
Technology Everyone thought I was one of three things: a) crazy, b) desiring self
glory, or c) rich.
To a man, they thought it would not happen!
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Festival of the
Fourth Dimension
Well it did. 06.06.06 10.06.06 !
- Making the Magic Happen (In other words, getting prepared to
be lucky)- The Sponsors and the French Government
- Everyone came together
- The Radio, TV and International Press came
- Everyone was thrilled with each other
- From one believer to many Now they are all believers and weare already planning for next year.
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Festival of the Fourth Dimension Festival of
the Fourth Dimension World Premieres
- First interactive map on mobile TV
- First META-tagged Art
- First RFID Art
- First Emotional Map of the Planet
- First instant 3D Creation and Discovery of Worlds
- World Scents
- Dial-Tone Concerto
- The Symphony of Machines- Trip Multi Media Opera
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Festival of the Fourth Dimension : FFD
New Ventures S
ymphony ofM
achines
- Grid Computing
- Security
- Intra-network and Inter-networking
- All across Sophia Antipolis
- Mobile Phone and Vocal Server
- Aleatory communications
- France Telecom, Infineon, Philips, Eurecom, Alcatel Alenia
Space but also new start-ups
Next Year SUN, Oracle, simultaneously in Silicone Valley and
Sophia Antipolis
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You can change the world - DO IT!
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity in Businessto save the world and right wrongs? ABSOLUTELY
Do your Business Plans and Make Money
Believing in the Power of Creativity and CommunicationBringing people and ideas together and seeing whathappens it works every single time The Power ofNetworking
HAVING THE GUTS TO COMMUNICATE CREATIVITYIN A CORPORATE AND GOVERNMENTAL WORLD
WORKING HARD Having a protector and a good team
Personal responsibility
Communications is also communicating with your innerself or your organization and believing
Cross-Border corporate culture
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Saving the World and Righting
Wrongs!
Energy
Environment
Illness and Poverty Illiteracy
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Saving the Planet and Saving the
Universe
What are your ideas to Save the planet and the
universe?
What is your business plan?
What are the measurable value created?
You can Do IT!