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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

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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!

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