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Do Frequency Reward Programs Create Switching Costs? A Dynamic Structural Analysis Of Demand In A Reward Program
July 17, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines a common assertion that customers in reward programs become "Locked in" as they accumulate credits toward earning a reward. The authors define a measure of switching costs and...
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Explaining Supplier Behavior On Global Account Management
October 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Using globalization and contingency theory, this paper develops a supplier-based model of Global Account Management (GAM). The model comprises the multinational supplier's industry globalization...
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"Marketing Actions Can Modulate Neural Representations Of Experienced Utility"
September 17, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Despite the importance and pervasiveness of marketing actions, almost nothing is known about the neural mechanisms through which it affects the decisions made by individuals. The paper proposes...
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Relieving the Data Acquisition Bottleneck in Word Sense Disambiguation
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Supervised learning methods for WSD yield better performance than unsupervised methods. Yet the availability of clean training data for the former is still a severe challenge. This paper presents...
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Switch Scheduling Via Randomized Edge Coloring
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The essence of an Internet router is an n x n switch which routes packets from input to output ports. Such a switch can be viewed as a bipartite graph with the input and output ports as the two...
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Tenet: An Architecture for Tiered Embedded Networks
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Future large-scale sensor network deployments will be tiered, with the motes providing dense sensing and a higher tier of 32-bit master nodes with more powerful radios providing increased overall...
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Data Visualization and Social Data Analysis
July 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Analysts in all areas of human knowledge, from science and engineering to economics, social science and journalism are drowning in data. New technologies for sensing, simulation, and communication...
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Amazon Enters the Cloud Computing Business
May 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos looked at the clock on the instrument panel of his Segway Human Transporter; it was 7:52AM and he knew he would need a little luck to get to his 8:00AM meeting at Amazon's...
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An Architecture for Content Routing Support in the Internet
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The primary use of the Internet is content distribution the delivery of web pages, audio, and video to client applications yet the Internet was never architected for scalable content delivery. The...
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Enduser Participation in Design Through Collaborative, Crowdsourced Storyboards
February 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
Successful open-source projects have a distributed, of-ten passionate set of users that currently sit on the periphery of the design process, or are not engaged in the process at all. The research...
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DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents DAML-S, DAML + OIL ontology for describing the properties and capabilities of Web Services. Web Services Web-accessible programs and devices - are garnering a great deal of...
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Semantic Web Services Challenge: Proceedings of the 2008 Workshops
February 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper describes how semantic bridges realized in terms of rule based ontology mappings can be incorporated into BPEL processes. The approach is explained by applying it to a semantic system...
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Crawler-Friendly Web Servers
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
A web crawler is a program that automatically downloads pages from the Web. A typical crawler starts with a seed set of pages (e.g., yahoo.com and aol.com). It then downloads these pages, extracts...
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Inside The Mind Of A Reluctant Entrepreneur
May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Numenta's Jeff Hawkins, a frequent company founder, inventor, and product designer for Palm and Handspring, highlights lessons learned during his tenure in technology. He also confesses that these...
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Anyone Can Be An Entrepreneur
November 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
Artists Quincy Jones III and Chamilionaire discuss the myriad ways that online media and technology have leveled the playing field for "e-hustling", or the pursuit of entrepreneurship. Jones...
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Changing The World through Innovation
November 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
Stanford President John Hennessy kicks off the 2009 Global Innovation Tournament by challenging students to solve the world's major problems through innovation.
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New Opportunities In Search Engine Technology
November 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
When Alta Vista launched, it indexed about 50 percent of the Web. Years later, Google launched at the same capacity. But the opportunity today in search engine technology, says Cuil co-founder...
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Great Ideas Derive From Well-Rested Minds
January 20, 2010, 12:00am PST
Being a workaholic is no guarantee of success. David Heinemeier Hansson points out that 37signals' main product, Basecamp, was created on 10 hours a week of development for a total of six months....
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Classroom Experiments In Entrepreneurship
May 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
If you had five dollars and two hours, what would you do to make as much money as possible? In this webcast, STVP Executive Director Tina Seelig recalls a classroom exercise in creative thinking...
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Entrepreneurship Is A State Of Mind
April 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Being an entrepreneur is more than just starting a business, says Shutterfly CEO and dot-com veteran Jeff Housenbold. Entrepreneurial thinking involves an innovative mindset to create new...
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Responsible Engineering In The Modern Age (Entire Talk)
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Whereas the 20th century belonged to the scientist, the 21st century, says Sun Micosystems' CTO Greg Papadopoulos, is the domain of the engineer. Rather than secretly toiling away on new...
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Evangelizing For The Lean Startup (Entire Talk)
September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Speaker, author, and entrepreneur Eric Ries shares rapid fire wisdom on building nimble, responsive, and efficient online software-based businesses. He also offers his wisdom on streamlining...
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Google.org's Five Core Initiatives
May 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
After a mock trial session to whittle down the most critical causes from an applicant pool of 10,000, Google.org chose just five areas of concentration: renewable energy, plug-in vehicles,...
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Field Observations With Fresh Eyes
November 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
Design firm IDEO's General Manager Tom Kelley shares a case study that demonstrates the value opportunities that can arise when designers, innovators, and entrepreneurs see with fresh eyes. He...
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Using Your Whole Brain
November 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
Fine tune your left brain, but don't overlook the opportunities to let your right brain make its mark. Tom Kelley, General Manager of IDEO, also discusses the use of the "Hare" brain, meaning the...
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Building A Company Culture
April 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Pioneering a company is more than just building products. It's also about establishing a company culture, says NVIDIA Co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang. How do you organize hierarchies and...
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A Successful Business Solves Problems
January 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
A solid business model can't survive long-term if it just draws traffic. Serial entrepreneur Mitch Kapor points out that a concrete business plan must truly offer a solution to a well-worn market...
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Innovation Made Personal
November 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
Tom Kelley, the highly acclaimed general manager of IDEO and author of best-selling books on creativity, targets his thoughts on corporate creativity to the inexperienced student - and how the...
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Vision Versus Perspective
April 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Everyone has a perspective, says Jensen Huang, but to call it a "Vision" implies elitism and exclusion. This NVIDIA Co-founder insists that those with a new idea for business approach the world...
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Creative Direct Marketing
April 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
While at EBay, Jeff Housenbold, now the CEO of Shutterfly, managed to enroll 65,000 new subscribers a day, and shepherded the company toward being the first to use Google's Adwords. In the...
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The Five Whys
September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Understand and question deeply the root causes - i.e. the "Human problems" - behind every technical mishap, else your startup will be hindered in its progress. So advises entrepreneur and author...
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Cultivating An Attitude Of Wisdom
November 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
Be confident in what you know well, but be distrusting enough of what you don't know to keep yourself learning more at all times. This axiom will keep life-long learners of innovation thirsting to...
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When Not To Listen To Your Customer
April 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Do research, but don't let your customers tell you what do build. Too often, says Jeff Housenbold, Shutterfly's CEO, the customer doesn't know what they want, and rarely in market study will they...
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What Does An Angel Investor Do?
January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
Investors Mike Maples and Ron Conway explain their job like this: They help all lights turn green for the fast-moving car of the Internet start-up. In addition to cutting a check, these angel...
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Fail Fast And Frequently
May 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
What's the secret sauce of Silicon Valley? Failure, reports Tina Seelig, Executive Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. To develop more successes, she urges, entrepreneurs have...
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Problem-Solving Paradigm
October 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Take a big problem, apply the best minds to its prospects, add the fuel of entrepreneurial energy and a touch of capitalist greed, and one has the perfect recipe for solving any social,...
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An Angel Investor's Strategic Advice For The Start-Up
January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
A million dollars should last any new venture at least a year. And companies are most productive when they're less than ten people strong. These business axioms are good advice for any enterprise,...
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The Value Of Company Culture
January 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
Former Lotus 1-2-3 founder Mitch Kapor speaks candidly about the most valuable legacy of his wildly successful 1980's technology company: the management of free-thinking creatives. He stands by...
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The Power Of A Mission
February 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
If you're seeking inspiration, you will find it by attending this webcast from Humane Society Silicon Valley's President, Christine Benninger. She describes the organization as she inherited it as...
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Risk Is A Necessity For Exploration And Growth
April 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Historically, thousands of people have given their lives to explore new frontiers on land and sea. And space entrepreneur and X PRIZE founder Peter Diamandis deeply believes that the world today...
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Secrecy Analysis in Protocol Composition Logic
November 29, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors present formal proof rules for inductive reasoning about the way that data transmitted on the network remains secret from a malicious attacker. Extending a compositional protocol logic...
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Approximate Capacity of the Two-Way Relay Channel: A Deterministic Approach
August 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the capacity of the full-duplex bidirectional (or two-way) relay channel with two nodes and one relay. The channels in the forward direction are assumed to be different (in...
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Buffer Sizing in 802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks
August 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze the problem of buffer sizing for TCP flows in 802.11-based Wireless Mesh Networks. Their objective is to maintain high network utilization while providing low queueing delays....
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A Barcode Shape Descriptor for Curve Point Cloud Data
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present a complete computational pipeline for extracting a compact shape descriptor for curve point cloud data. Their shape descriptor, called a barcode, is based on a...
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Dynamic Control and Mitigation of Interdependent IT Security Risks
February 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
Security risk management for information technology-based organizations has become increasingly important in recent years. However, the risk assessment and mitigation strategies that these...
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Fair Waiting Protocol: Fairness and Isolation in Wireless Sensornets
July 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Isolation simplifies reasoning. For example, isolation between processes in an OS can make failures due to another program exceedingly rare. In network architecture, isolation between network...
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Iterative Cross Layer Schemes for Throughput Maximization in Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
June 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Two iterative cross layer schemes are introduced for throughput maximization in multi channel WMN's where each link has a single designated channel. For both schemes, a two phase algorithm is...
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Fingerprinting Mobile User Positions in Sensor Networks
March 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors demonstrate that the network flux over the sensor network provides them fingerprint information about the mobile users within the field. Such information is exoteric in the physical...
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Experimental Investigation of Time Reversal Precoding for Space-Time Focusing in Wireless Communications
August 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the results of indoor wideband measurements investigating the space-time properties of wireless signal transmission with online time reversal precoding. The measurements were...
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Camera Network Node Selection for Target Localization in the Presence of Occlusions
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
A camera network node subset selection methodology for target localization in the presence of static and moving occluders is described. It is assumed that the locations of the static occluders are...
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Iterative and One-Shot Conferencing in Relay Channels
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors compare the rates of one-shot and iterative conferencing in a cooperative Gaussian relay channel. The relay and receiver cooperate via a conference, as introduced by Willems, in which...
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Relay Strategies for Interference-Forwarding
March 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors consider relaying strategies in networks with multiple source-destination pairs and possibly additional outside sources of interference. They study these networks in the discrete,...
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Bounds and Capacity Results for the Cognitive Z-Interference Channel
May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the discrete memory-less Z-Interference Channel (ZIC) where the transmitter of the pair that suffers from interference is cognitive. They first provide upper and lower bounds on...
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On the Capacity of the Interference Channel With a Relay
May 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Capacity gains due to relaying in wireless networks with multiple source-destination pairs are analyzed. A two-source, two-receiver network with the relay is considered. The focus is on the...
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Breaking Spectrum Gridlock With Cognitive Radios: An Information Theoretic Perspective
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Cognitive radios hold tremendous promise for increasing spectral efficiency in wireless systems. This paper surveys the fundamental capacity limits and associated transmission techniques for...
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On the Capacity of Interference Channels With One Cooperating Transmitter
April 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Inner and outer bounds are established on the capacity region of two-sender, two-receiver Interference Channels (IC) where one transmitter knows both messages. The transmitter with this extra...
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Accurate Modeling and Generation of Storage I/O for Datacenter Workloads
February 15, 2011, 12:00am PST
Tools that confidently recreate I/O workloads have become a critical requirement in designing efficient storage systems for DataCenters (DCs), since potential inefficiencies get aggregated over...
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Learning Interference Strategies in Cognitive ARQ Networks
October 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cognitive radios, which enable the coexistence on the same bandwidth of licensed primary and unlicensed secondary users, have the potential for dramatically increasing the efficiency of wireless...
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Touch and Run With Near Field Communication (NFC)
November 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors explore new ways in which Near Field Communication (NFC) can be used on smart phones. NFC allows for Contextual Application Invocation (CAI) - the execution of code on...
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Micro-Interactions With NFC-Enabled Mobile Phones
September 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper coins the term micro-interactions to refer to the class of small exchanges between devices that occur almost instantaneously. For example, a mobile payment using Near-Field...
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Using Spectrum Auctions to Enhance Competition in Wireless Services
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Well-designed spectrum auctions can play an important role in fostering a competitive wireless industry. Of even greater importance is the quantity of spectrum made available for wireless...
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On the Role of Mobility for Multi-Message Gossip
August 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In wireless ad hoc or social networks, a variety of scenarios require agents to share their individual information or resources with each other for mutual benefit. A partial list includes file...
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Achievable Rate Improvement Using Common Message Decoding for Multicell Networks
November 21, 2010, 12:00am PST
The performance of a multicell wireless network is often limited by intercell interference. This paper considers the use of common-private message splitting at the transmitter and common-message...
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Cooperative Wireless Multicell OFDMA Network With Backhaul Capacity Constraints
February 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper considers the downlink of a wireless multicell Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple-Access (OFDMA) system where neighboring Base-Stations (BSs) can jointly encode and transmit data...
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Diffusing the Fog: Cloud Computing and Implications for Public Policy
March 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
Cloud Computing is rapidly emerging as the new platform for computing. It is, however, much more than simply a new set of technologies and business models. Cloud Computing has the potential to...
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Efficient Scheduling for Heterogeneous Services in OFDMA Downlink
August 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider optimal allocation of resources to users in a downlink OFDMA system to support heterogeneous applications consisting of both Deadline-Sensitive (DS) and Best-Effort (BE) data...
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Separation Logic and the Mashup Isolation Problem
May 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper was done as part of the author's PhD qualifier exam. The author's qualifier exam problem was to perform an in depth study of separation logic. In this paper, he surveys two variants of...
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An Operational Semantics for JavaScript
September 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors define a small-step operational semantics for the ECMAScript standard language corresponding to JavaScript, as a basis for analyzing security properties of web applications and...
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Automated Analysis of Security-Critical JavaScript APIs
March 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
JavaScript is widely used to provide client-side functionality in Web applications. To provide services ranging from maps to advertisements, Web applications may incorporate untrusted JavaScript...
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Mobility Dependent Feedback Scheme for Point-to-Point MIMO Systems
February 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
A MIMO diversity scheme that utilizes varying amounts of Channel State Information (CSI) for mobile users is presented. CSI at the transmitter is obtained through a time-duplexed feedback channel,...
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Spatial Separation of Multi-User MIMO Channels
February 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
Since multi-antenna (MIMO) systems are becoming more popular thanks to their inherent potential for capacity improvement, interference from MIMO transceivers is an increasingly serious concern....
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Multiprocessor Support for Event-Driven Programs
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a new asynchronous programming library (libasync-smp) that allows event-driven applications to take advantage of multiprocessors by running code for event handlers in parallel....
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The Art Of Teaching Entrepreneurship And Innovation
May 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, the presenter shares rich insights in creative thinking and the entrepreneurial mindset. The presenter's talk, based on her 2009 book, What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20, cites...
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Sharing A Measure Of Success
February 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, the presenters describe the entrepreneurial process as a series of pivots. One of the presenters explains it's not just a jump, but an evolving growth of stages that leads to an...
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The Perfect Storm In MedTech
May 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, the presenter speaks briefly about the experience working in medicine and technology. The presenter also discusses at length the numerous political, financial, and regulatory...
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The Diplomacy Of Technology
May 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, the presenter discusses in detail innovation policy and how it can change national diplomacy. In addition, Ross offers advice to global innovators, stressing quality time...
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Honest Advice On Starting A Company
October 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, the presenter says that entrepreneurship is an emotional and economic roller coaster. In this candid and informative lecture, S defies some of Silicon Valley's conventional...
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Leadership And Disruptive Technologies
October 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, the presenter discusses disruptive product innovation and leadership in the medical device industry. The presenter shares the company's story, including insights on the launch of...
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Funding Thunder Lizard Entrepreneurs
October 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, the presenter offers insight into the democratization of innovation in the Internet age, and its affect on investment cycles. Additionally, the presenter speaks candidly about the...
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Customer Focus Builds Global Growth
November 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, the presenter discusses the company's growth-centered business model, its global presence, and the strides it takes to sustain a successful customer experience. The presenter also...
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