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Marylene Delbourg-Delphis

Silicon Valley executive and serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience. As Guy Kawasaki puts it: “Marylene gave me my start as an entrepreneur when we co-founded ACIUS in 1987. She also encouraged me to write my first book, The Macintosh Way. She is insightful and strategic at the highest levels. I highly recommend her as a member of your management team, mentor, advisor, or psychiatrist. Much of my success is attributable to how she has helped me throughout my career.”

More… A graduate from l’Ecole Normale Supérieure in France (philosophy, history of sciences and formal logic), I started my entrepreneurial career in France, as the founder of ACI (now 4th Dimension) and launched the first bestselling relational database (4th Dimension) on Macintosh in 1986. I was one of the first European women to start a company in the Silicon Valley and co-founded ACIUS with Guy Kawasaki in 1987. I then became the CEO of Exemplary Software (a spin off from HPLabs), a lean supply chain management system acquired by Persistent Systems, of Brixlogic, a platform for the native implementation of XML Schemas acquired by Diebold, and co-founded TalentCircles of which I was the CEO for four years.

I have assisted a large number of young companies as a shadow CEO, board member, investor, advisor, M&A facilitator and I also coach women entrepreneurs.

I have translated books by Guy Kawasaki, Seth Godin and Hugh McLeod into French for French entrepreneurs, as well as written prefaces for these books and others, such as the Age of Context by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. I am a prolific writer and I also have my own blog Grade A Entrepreneurs. Earlier in my career, I have authored several books on the history of fashion and fragrance.

I write technology strategy white papers for software and Internet companies. To help French-speaking entrepreneurs, I have translated and prefaced several books for a French publisher, Diateino, including:

– I am involved in various music organizations and a member of the University Musical Society – UMS National Council – Ann Arbor, MI

– I also wrote several books on the history of fashion and fragrances and their cultural context in the 20th century. Published articles in Le Monde, Vogue and various trade publications. Books in French include:

Silicon Valley blogger Marylene Delbourg-Delphis cited Clear Admit’s own Eliot Ingram in a recent post to her blog, Grade A Entrepreneurs. Delbourg-Delphis is a three-time start-up CEO – ACI/ACI US (now 4D), Exemplary and Brixlogic – and her blog, which launched in October, is capturing the attention of Silicon Valley.

My professor Dr. Mann at CSUEB suggested that I show you my Entrepreneurship Class project, a video about yourself, Mr. Kleissner, and myself. It is not perfect, but I decided to show it to you anyways.
I am enthusiastic that you have a history in fashion, and yet you stayed in the bay area. I am also interested in fashion, and entrepreneurship, as well as skateboarding (as you’ll see in my video). I got a 10 out of 10 on the project by the way.

[…] Marylene Delbourg-Delphis states in her article “Look at Your Company as a ‘Small Business’” at OpenForum.com, “So see yourself as who you really are: a small business ‘owner’”. While she is addressing budding entrepreneurs, her mention of the need for a “continuous sense of personal accountability” and quotes about what that means are easily transferable to job seekers: […]

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