InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Great Startup Ideas Come From Everywhere. "At "At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I'm afraid that's not quite right." This frugality was evidenced by the fact that everyone at Microsoft, even Gates, flew coach until well into the late 1990s.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2013

For an entrepreneur, this is often evident in the willingness to be coached, by outside experts or by your own team. Dean Kamen, while still struggling with the Segway Human Transporter, holds 440 other device patents. Good ideas can come from anyone at any time. I have just found ten thousand ways that won''t work."

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2012

For an entrepreneur, this is often evident in the willingness to be coached, by outside experts or by your own team. Dean Kamen, while still struggling with the Segway Human Transporter, holds 440 other device patents. Good ideas can come from anyone at any time. I have just found ten thousand ways that won't work."

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2016

For leaders, this is often evident in the willingness to be coached, by outside experts or by your own team. Dean Kamen, while still struggling with the Segway Human Transporter, holds 440 other device patents. Good ideas can come from anyone at any time. I have just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.” Promote resilience.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. Sometimes we draft business plans and coach the entrepreneurs on their pitch, and sometimes we even help develop a business model. Many entrepreneurs have an idea but don’t know how to monetize it.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

If you're an industry insider--for example, maybe you worked at Microsoft in its mobile division for eight years, before your mobile startup--the extent you can get that out in a meeting to establish credibility, makes the rest of your ideas more credible. The second thing we look at is the quality of the idea.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

What is the idea behind Knowledge Genie? More recently, we licensed our platform to leadership guru Marshall Goldsmith, so that he could transform his $200,000 coaching engagements into a virtual program, so that a much wider audience could benefit from Marshall's process and work. We have patents filed on this process.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

A little bit Berkeley, but more Stanford to the point where three PhDs graduating from Stanford and a huge idea can get a $20 million check to swing for the fences and build a huge company. Thats not Los Angeles. is a lot more of: Show me how youre going to commercialize this technology, I want to understand how it makes money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2019

I had some ideas on how to do this, but I was pleased with the insights to a connected strategy that were pulled together in a new book, “ Connected Strategy ,” by Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch, professors at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Provide useful prompting to prevent future pain.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

The short story is that he received 400+ responses and goes through how he categorized/vetted the responses: 300 Didn’t Fit – Outside expertise/interest, pushing for immediate funding assistance, too many ideas (not focused), looking for sales agents. Some weeks might end up being pretty much full-time on a single startup (e.g.,

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