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Interview with Fariborz Maseeh, Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition

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Last week, the University of Southern California 's Viterbi School of Engineering announced that it had established a new, business plan competition, the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition ([link] specifically aimed at students in the engineering school. Why a business plan competition, and why in engineering school?

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Do you want to control your business destiny?

Berkonomics

This moment is not to be spoiled by such mundane warnings from advisors or consultants to plan carefully, research the market and competition, and execute the plan with tenacity and enthusiasm. Write your own Hollywood script. Do you ignore the warnings of experts? Relish the experience of creation.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch LA

These are industries where structural impediments to technology adoption have only recently been broken down by the advent of incredibly powerful mobile devices. As Fifth Wall’s newest partner Greg Smithies noted last year, there’s a massive opportunity in building retrofits and startup technologies to improve efficiency.

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The thrill of the adventure!

Berkonomics

This moment is not to be spoiled by such mundane warnings from advisors or consultants to plan carefully, research the market and competition, and execute the plan with tenacity and enthusiasm. This moment is to celebrate every action, including shopping for supplies, furniture and technology to support the newly minted enterprise.

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Makers Making The Sci-Fi Tricorder A Reality With VOXearch

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A number of teams have recently been looking to turn that vision into reality, as a result of the Qualcomm Tricorder Prize , a $10M competition being run by the X Prize Foundation to create a real life Tricorder. That''s essentially how the Tricoder competition was formed--it''s time for this to happen. It was announced in the 90''s.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” From a technology perspective our journey is nowhere near over. Why is this? Here is the SlideShare deck.

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Would the Last Blackberry User Please Turn Out the Lights? I Already Left the Building

Both Sides of the Table

And by obvious I mean – the slowness of Palm’s response to having email has got to go down as one of the most obvious blunders in technology history. Yet their business was disrupted entirely by email because a small company called Research in Motion came out with a device that did email flawlessly – the Blackberry.

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