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The Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide – 101 Tips for Managing in Good Times & Bad Every entrepreneur, executive and manager hopes for quick, consistent growth, but not many are ready for it when it happens. John Cullinane, one of the pioneers of the computer software industry, presents crucial lessons he learned from his company’s founding. more »
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Smarter Than Their Machines — Oral Histories of Pioneers in Interactive Computing — Recently published, this book features the oral histories of the pioneers that led to interactive computing and shows they have much to offer today’s leaders in business, industry, and academia on how to get complex things done. more>>
Podcast — Public-Private Partnerships: A Case Study on the Development of the Computer Industry. Seminar held on book at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, conducted by John Cullinane. link to Podcast >>
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John Cullinane was the first Fellow in the Center for Business & Government, Kennedy School, Harvard University. While there, with the input of outstanding economists such as Professor Raymond Vernon, Joseph Auerbach and Center Director John Dunlop, he wrote “Widows and Orphans – A Walk Down Wall Street From the Perspective of a High Tech Entrepreneur.” It is still valid many years later; nothing has changed on Wall Street. link to paper >>
Video – Financial Management Network Interview of John Cullinane regarding his paper.
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Video interview of John Cullinane by the Northeastern University Center for Entrepreneurship Education. John speaks on the importance of messaging and his unique process for creating the all-important sales messages as well as an easy way to test ideas in the marketplace via non-binding letters of intent. more >>
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Peace in Northern Ireland Through Jobs
John was heavily involved through the peace process with the advocacy of jobs and economic development, which were key to peace. With 65% unemployment in high violence communities, it was the only subject that both sides could agree on.
Social entrepreneurs working the Boston/Belfast connection for jobs for peace – Dr. Allisdar McDonnell, Frank Costello, Lord Mayor Hugh Smythe of Belfast, Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston, John Cullinane and John Cullinane, Jr.
Podcast — Public-Private Partnerships in the Northern Ireland Peace Process conducted by John Cullinane and Dr. Frank Costello, Visiting Research Professor, Queens University, Belfast. link to podcast >>
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John Cullinane was the Founding Chairman of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and also the Chair of the International Visiting Dignitaries Series when Nelson Mandela visited the Library on his first stop in America.
Nelson Mandela visits JFK Library after 27 years in prison – greeted by Senator Kennedy and Stevie Wonder with John Cullinane, MC of the event, in the background.
Author Archives: jcullinane
April 2, 2012
The Idea Man, written by Paul Allen and suggested by Jimmy Fallon Posted on April 3, 2012 by jcullinane It all started on a snowy day in December 1974, when he was twenty-one years old. After buying the new issue of … Continue reading →