Berkonomics

APRIL 13, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Can you dominate that market? Some great ideas just can’t make money and ultimately die for lack of profit potential. Do you have a world-class management team? Can you translate an idea into a compelling product? A core patent or “thicket” of patents protecting your offering?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

I thought this post might be of interest to some of my readers, as it offers a glimpse into my approach to teaching entrepreneurship. . Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. I read Enchantment anticipating that it might augment my Entrepernurial Selling class, which focuses on influence and persuasion, rather than sales tactics. Drop Everything And Do What Your Boss Asks.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Our goal is to build a platform that helps our companies achieve best practices as quickly as possible on their way to becoming world-class companies.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 3, 2016

Email readers, continue here…] We brainstormed with a consultant and each other. One idea kept rising to the top of our list: abandoning our Class A office space which had been designed and decorated with great love. It was much more than an office.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

BUT good ideas are NOT hard to find. This is where you find the superb Rails coder, and the world-class information architect, and the consummate sales guy, and the persuasive business development person, and the brilliant CFO. Each of the functions is crucial, and each is required to bring the good idea to fruition.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? We got over 400 applications for the ten slots we had open in this class, and we picked ten amazing companies. So far, eight of the ten companies in our current class have raised outside funding, and we're really happy with how it's gone so far. So when is the next class?

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

For our readers who haven't yet heard of your company, what's the idea behind StarGreetz? What we really did, is we took ideas that have been floating around for years, innovated, but definitely took ideas that have been around and made them better, made them easier, provided better distribution, and a better quality product.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Grant Hosford: I was working at Idealab, for Bill Gross, when I had the idea. The original spark came, because my daughter, Naomi, who is six and was in first grade at the time, took a Lego Robotics class. That allows pre-readers to play, and also any kid in any part of the world can play the game, because there are no language issues.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

Explain to our readers why you started your company, and why you created your app myLINGO. The idea is that the app uses the onboard microphone, reads the movie at any point the movie is playing using acoustic finger printing and audio recognition. Share with our readers your experience surrounding the launch of the app.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The irony is that currently both these onetime best in class companies are now in deep trouble. The result is that I, the reader, had no interest in what was being sold in the ad yet I am a consumer in both verticals. This is a great group to solicit ideas for new products/service or changes you are considering. They get you.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Your team operates out of a barn on your idyllic, coastal property, yet you have created a world-class product. Jeff and Brian are informal and very generous with ideas, input and feedback when they have time. We subscribe to the same philosophy.”. 7) My hat is off to you with respect to the degree you have bootstrapped SocialStay.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). Instead of using seniority, the program manager would have to convince others based on the merit of their ideas. Where did the idea for StackOverflow come from? Joel found out it was a bad idea. 47:50: The creation of StackExchange.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

Some first-time entrepreneurs mistakenly believe that they are not entrepreneurs because they have never invented anything nor have they come up with a novel idea upon which a company could be built. None of the ventures that I have been involved in have been my idea, nor have I ever invented anything. I am firmly in this camp as well.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. What if someone copies your awesome business idea? No, the question is: What are doing now knowing that a big company will copy your idea? recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership. Not that I blame you!

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