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    Factors That Impact Innovation

    October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Leadership, funding, policy, education, and culture are all concepts that leaders should keep in mind when trying to foster innovation in any organization. Judy Estrin, CEO of JLABS, breaks down...

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    Favoring Moore's Law Over Customer Feedback

    April 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    NVIDIA started as the first consumer 3D graphics company in 1993 and met over 200 competitors in a few years, reports its co-founder Jensen Huang. Yet today the company is the only remaining...

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    Three Types Of Innovation

    October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    JLABS' CEO Judy Estrin breaks down innovation into three varieties. First, there's incremental innovation, which is a significant improvement on an existing tool (such as the shift into Web 2.0)....

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    Don't Take Innovation For Granted

    October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Not only does innovation drive the economy, says Judy Estrin, CEO of JLABS, but it influences the very quality of our day-to-day life, and it is the only way to meet all of our national and global...

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    Running A Print Business In A Paperless World

    April 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Why print photos when the blog is king? And who prints photos in the age of digital cameras? Shutterfly CEO Jeff Housenbold explains how an old-fashioned business like photo printing is surviving...

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    Make It Personal And Make It Work

    April 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Connecting community and making information accessible are the two overarching threads that run through some of the most successful companies of the last century, points out Facebook COO Sheryl...

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    Case Studies Of Failure

    May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    After designing about a dozen computer products, Numenta's Jeff Hawkins recalls that two - among them the Palm Pilot - were very successful, half were good, and the remaining were market failures....

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    Competing With Giants

    January 16, 2008, 12:00am PST

    Serial entrepreneur Mitch Kapor encourages start-ups not to compete with giants. Instead, the young upstart should consider how it could benefit by working in concert with their giant's footsteps....

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    The Lean Startup: Debunking Myths Of Entrepreneurship

    September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    A startup is not a "Doll house" version of a larger enterprise. It's a human institution trying to start something new under extreme conditions of uncertainty, says author Eric Ries. It's not that...

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    Scaling Vision, Products, And Yourself

    April 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    What wisdom does Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, pass to the next generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders? The importance of impact, and the necessity for that impact to be scalable. Plan...

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    Shaping The Future With Entrepreneurship

    October 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, predicted that the emergence of free long distance phone calls would be free, and that the large telecoms' reliance on those profits would make them fall...

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    What Is Low-Carbon Investing?

    January 30, 2008, 12:00am PST

    MissionPoint Capital Partners co-founder Jesse Fink explains what it means to merge clean energy and environmental finance, including cap and trade and other infrastructure supports, that helps...

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    The History Of Strategy In Commercial Banking

    March 5, 2008, 12:00am PST

    Tech companies deposit about seven times the amount that they borrow. And at Silicon Valley Bank, recalls CEO Ken Wilcox, the methodology his venture has used to invest these excess deposits is a...

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    Are Business Plans A Work Of Fiction?

    April 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Can one truly develop a business plan before having a product or a customer in-hand? Not very successfully, contends KPCB partner Randy Komisar. In this webcast, Komisar discusses the premise for...

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    The Benefits Of Constructive Failure

    October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Nobody wants to fail, but we need to be willing to take that plunge - and self-analyze to learn from our failures, says JLABS CEO Judy Estrin. If not given the opportunity to fall short of new...

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    Technology As Medium, Not Content

    January 30, 2008, 12:00am PST

    Priceline co-founder Jesse Fink explains to entrepreneur Steve Blank how his early company was a technology-enhanced solution to a business model - and not a real technology play - that succeeded...

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    Implementing Ideas Into Practice

    February 20, 2008, 12:00am PST

    A good idea is a start, but sometimes an entire market has to be created for both the common good and for a new product's longevity. In this webcast, InCube Labs CEO Mir Imran, an established...

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    Take A Chance At The Edge Of Innovation

    February 18, 2009, 12:00am PST

    Universities and research labs force people to live on the edge of technology, says John Hennessy, President of Stanford University. And this exploration, he points out, helps them to uncover that...

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    Historical And Global Change Through Clean Technology

    May 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    With the long-term health of the planet at risk and the history of alternative energies in the making, Steve Westly, former CFO for the state of California and founder of VC firm The Westly Group,...

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    The Price Of The Decline Of Innovation

    October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    How did the floodgates of research, development, and innovation slow to a trickle, and how will the nation as a whole suffer as a result? Judy Estrin, CEO of JLABS, outlines the depletion of the...

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    Persistence And Simplicity

    February 13, 2008, 12:00am PST

    When Google Analytics' Group Product Marketing Manager Brett Crosby was landing his first big deal, it took three simple clicks of the send key to make the right contact - and a white paper...

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    Harnessing The Power Of Early Adopters

    September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    After a very hi-profile startup failure, author Eric Ries and other co-founders launched a second startup product in just six months - with technically hazardous results. Rather than investing the...

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    Diversity In Innovation

    October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    The low-hanging fruit of problem-solving has been plucked, says Judy Estrin, CEO of JLABS, and the remaining modern challenges are so complex, they can only be solved by a group effort. Teams...

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    Beyond Socially Responsible Business

    October 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Any "ism" is an extreme and dangerous thing, says William McDonough, McDonough + Partners. And finding that balance between capitalism, socialism, and ecologism is the engineering of good design...

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    The Three Phases Of Yahoo!

    May 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    In the early days of the company, the market was on fire, and global outreach was key. At the turn of the millennium, the company gained strength and began to monetize their web presence. And...

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    Trump Yourself - Or The Competition Will

    April 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    When you're in the technology industry,... if you're not reinventing yourself, you're just slowly dying, says NVIDIA Co-Founder Jensen Huang. In this webcast, Huang talks about market leaders'...

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    Recruiting More .Org's

    May 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Larry Brilliant, Executive Director for Google.org, confesses that the company stole the idea for a profit-driven non-profit from Salesforce.com. Brilliant reminds us that only privately-held...

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    Graduating New Technologies

    May 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Ninety percent of KPCB's new technologies come from university research, reports partner Beth Seidenberg. But how do the pieces come together? It all may begin with a good idea, but even the most...

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    Taking Flight In A Hurricane

    February 13, 2008, 12:00am PST

    Google Analytics' Group Product Marketing Manager Brett Crosby recalls how two brutal blows to his enterprise - losing a huge client in the 11th hour and the tragedy of 9/11 - forced him to...

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    Seizing The Economic Bull

    February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST

    The economic depression of early 2009 is a great boon for venture capitalists, and an even better time for aspiring entrepreneurs. So says Tim Draper, Founder and a Managing Director of Draper...

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    Bringing Metrics Into The Daily Routine

    February 21, 2009, 12:00am PST

    Active users, engagement time, and revenue per user. Every Cooliris employee is issued a toothbrush with reminders of these metrics printed on the back, designed to motivate them to think about...

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    Open And Social

    May 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    If you love something, set it free and it will come back to you, says the old adage. But as Sue Decker, President of Yahoo! explains, this sentiment also applies to advertising-driven online real...

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    Maturing Your Brand

    February 13, 2008, 12:00am PST

    Get a good copywriter and a graphic designer and you can look a lot bigger than you are, says Google Analytics' Group Product Marketing Manager Brett Crosby. Making your brand look rich makes any...

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    Expanding The Customer Base For The Non-Profit

    February 6, 2008, 12:00am PST

    It's not just about spaying and neutering anymore. Changing the role of the animal shelter to completely support the human/animal bond is a huge undertaking for Humane Society Silicon Valley's...

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    The Benefits Of Open Source

    October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    All of the smart people don't work for you. So how can an organization harness a broader intellect and get them to work on their projects? Keep your ideas free and accessible, and share them with...

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    Clean Tech's Impact On Recessionary Times

    May 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    When orders for Tesla cars outshine orders for the GM Saturn, Steve Westly takes this as a sign that clean technologies are going to help lift America from the recession of 2008/2009. He points to...

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    The Challenge Of Constant Rebuilding

    April 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Every successful thing about a technology company has to eventually be torn down and rebuilt, says Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, and this is one of the most gut-wrenching challenges behind...

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    An Argument For Continuous Deployment

    September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Author and entrepreneur Eric Ries stresses continuous deployment - that is, the updating of code and website changes as frequently as every twenty minutes - as a necessary asset to the functioning...

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    Opportunities In China At The Age Of Innovation

    September 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    With no business model and a company that was barely solvent, Baidu CEO Robin Li quickly realized that his customer base didn't want to buy the best technology; only the cheapest. The entire...

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    Planning For The Market

    May 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Even after the first round of financing, budding start-up Amyris Biotechnologies didn't quite realize the potential of its assets or its market possibilities, says company CEO John Melo. The...

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