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    Bravely Take On The Big Players

    January 14, 2009, 12:00am PST

    The more dominant a single brand is in the marketplace, the easier it is for an innovator to compete with them. So says Hugh Martin, Chairman and CEO of Pacific Biosciences, who headed the...

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    An Entrepreneur's Take On The Non-Profit

    May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Launching a non-profit organization is just as much work as starting a for-profit business, says Numenta Founder Jeff Hawkins. Many of the issues and struggles of leadership are the same,...

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    Building The Minimum Viable Product

    September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    In the successful build-out of a lean startup, entrepreneur and author Eric Ries suggests adapting the rules of creating the minimum viable product. Rather than getting the product "Right"; or...

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    Add Plumbing Now For Cash Flow Later

    February 21, 2009, 12:00am PST

    What are the benefits of a Chief Revenue Officer? They force the start-up to think about revenue stream now, and in the future. Cooliris CEO Soujanya Bhumkar discusses how profit may not yet be...

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    New Views On Recruitment

    February 21, 2009, 12:00am PST

    With 34 full-time employees and 25 interns, Cooliris has brought innovation into attracting the best talent. Here, Product Manager Josh Schwarzapel and CEO Soujanya Bhumkar discuss their company's...

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    Wear Every Hat

    February 13, 2008, 12:00am PST

    Brett Crosby, Google Analytics' Group Product Marketing Manager, shares a lesson from Michael E. Gerber's E-Myth series that's helped propel his business strategy: Do every job in your company,...

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    An Emerging Market: Investing In Nanosolar

    October 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    In this clip, Erik Straser, a partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, discusses a case study of his firm's investment in a new solar technology modeled after printing a daily newspaper. Straser speaks...

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    The Business School Of Extreme Aerial Surfing

    April 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Entrepreneurship isn't just a sport; it's extreme. John Seely Brown, Deloitte Center for the Edge's Independent Co-Chairman, paid attention when suddenly five of the globe's top aerial surfers...

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    Opportunity In The Failure Of Design

    October 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Any kind of government regulation on the enterprise is a signal of design failure - but also an opportunity to improve upon and grow a more efficient business archetype. McDonough + Partners...

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    The Advantage Of Not Marketing

    April 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Pandora CTO Tom Conrad invites start-ups to "Be genuine". Rather than investing in marketing, Pandora simply asks its users to a coffee. In lieu of a form letter, new users - all 50,000 of them...

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    Creating The Center For Edge Innovation

    January 28, 2009, 12:00am PST

    Teresa Briggs, partner at Deloitte Silicon Valley, talks about the Center for Edge Innovation, an in-house think tank that seeks to shape, rather than follow, broad market thinking with some of...

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    The Benefits Of Mapping Plan A

    April 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Though Randy Komisar, KPCB partner and seasoned entrepreneur, proposes that most successful ventures do not find success in their initial business idea, he still maintains that there's value in...

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    Energy Reform And Cap And Trade

    May 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Business leaders put pressure on elected officials, and they should be vying for a worldwide mandate on energy reduction, cleaner building materials, and the adoption of Japanese and European...

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    The Resurgence Of Consumer Electronics

    May 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Citing as example handheld innovations such as Flip video cameras and Jawbone headsets, serial entrepreneur Marc Andreessen claims that as of Spring 2010, consumer electronics are hot and viable...

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    The Potency Of Effective Negotiations

    November 12, 2008, 12:00am PST

    All organizations of employment have a political structure and revolve around the subtle arts of negotiation and relationship management. How one treat his peers - particularly the subordinates -...

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    Single Product, Single Focus

    February 20, 2008, 12:00am PST

    Rather than poising his entrepreneurial efforts as a single company offering a suite of products, InCube Labs CEO Mir Imran believes in segmenting each product into its own stand-alone venture....

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    Products For Life, Customers For Life

    October 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    McDonough + Partners lead William McDonough points out that manufacturers can utilize the same resources repeatedly, and build a lifetime buying relationship with their customer in the process. By...

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    Driving Low Cost And Time To Market

    May 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Rather than simply re-inventing the wheel on new energy sources, Amyris Biotechnologies CEO John Melo discusses his company's decision to focus on blended fuels that already meet market...

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    High Velocity Media: What's Next In Online Advertising Revenue

    February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST

    If 30-40 percent of the time engaging in media is spent online, then why are only 6-7 percent of all ad dollars going toward online media? Tony Perkins, CEO of AlwaysOn, Michael Moe, Founding...

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    Free Is Alive And Well

    February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST

    Are VC's fearful of open access and giving away great technologies? Tony Perkins, CEO of AlwaysOn, asks ThinkEquity Founding Partner Michael Moe and Founder and Managing Director of Draper Fisher...

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    VC's Seeking Disruptive Markets

    October 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    In addition to the usual factors that attract a venture capitalist to a startup - passionate entrepreneurs, unique ideas, and a desire to change the world - Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson's Steve...

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    Shedding Light On The "Dark" Web

    September 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    In an effort to index the 99 percent of the "Dark" web - that is, the vast majority of web pages unreachable by most search tools - Robin Li, CEO of China's Baidu, launched a product called...

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    Sharpening Focus In The Face Of Market Turmoil

    September 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Focusing on technology, operations, and the user experience, Robin Li, CEO of Chinese search engine Baidu, took a pragmatic approach and recalls how he took on the role of project manager for the...

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    Value In User Click Rates

    November 6, 2008, 12:00am PST

    In a non-centralized system like the Internet, the best information is likely coming from a multitude of disparate sources. Anna Patterson, Co-founder of search engine Cuil, explains why her...

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    Applying The Law To Open Source Business Models

    October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Using and understanding intellectual legal rights can be an asset to engineers, says former Sun Microsystems CTO Greg Papadopoulos. In this clip, Papadopoulos explains the difference between...

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    Exposing More "Surfaces"

    April 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    By appropriating knowledge and thinkers from a broader scope of learning - i.e. exposing more "Surfaces" - John Seely Brown, Independent Co-Chairman from the Deloitte Center for the Edge, states...

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    Critical Early Decisions With Long Lasting Results

    September 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    The pivotal points that changed the direction of Baidu's emergence, says its CEO Robin Li, include fewer extravagant expenditures (and planning for six months of capital to last for over a year),...

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    Case Study: Innovation In Waste Refuse And Local Green Energy Production

    April 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Steve Perricone, Co-founder of BioFuelBox, explains how his alternative fuel company solves multiple problems in waste refuse, energy production and distribution, across multiple platforms. By...

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    The Greater The Problem, The Greater The Satisfaction

    February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST

    If pursuing problem-solving entrepreneurship or disruptive technologies, says Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson Tim Draper and ThinkEquity Founding Partner Mchael Moe,...

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    Pulling The Core To The Edge

    April 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Rather than trickling new innovations from the edge to the core, is it possible, rather, for the edge to dominate? The creative thinking of John Seely Brown, Deloitte Center for the Edge...

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    Meeting The Carbon Tracking Market

    February 11, 2009, 12:00am PST

    Facing the likelihood of carbon reporting and carbon tracking that will be necessary with upcoming cap and trade legislation, Tom Siebel, First Virtual Group Chairman, announces a new initiative...

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    Fail Cheaply And Disrupt Thyself

    October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Failure is a very important part of the learning process in Silicon Valley, says Greg Papadopoulos, CTO of Sun Microsystems. And people should disrupt themselves frequently and as inexpensively as...

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    Business Fueling - And Refueling - Itself

    October 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Eliminating the concept of waste, using current solar availability, and the celebration of diversity rethinks business-building resources from their most basic natural elements, and encourages...

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    Testing And Metrics Are Imperative

    October 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Pilots that fly by vision alone have a very short life expectancy when passing through clouds. But pilots that fly utilizing their instruments are able to soar. Mark Pincus, CEO of game company...

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    Being Less Bad Is Not Being Good

    October 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Eco-efficiency often means being less toxic overall, but architect and designer William McDonough, McDonough + Partners, believes that true green design and the architecture of business needs to...

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    Start-Up Chile

    September 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Economic Minister Fontaine outlines details of Chile's grant-making and business magnet program, Start-Up Chile. The program offers a $40,000 grant to entrepreneurs bringing early-stage businesses...

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    Chile As A National Startup

    September 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Juan Andrés Fontaine, Chile's Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism, discusses his country's current policy mandate to bring innovation and business development to Chile's economy. By...

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    Honing In On Results

    May 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    In the field of innovation, decide what you want the end result to be before you invent it, advises ExploraMed CEO Josh Makower. In addition, he advises a disciplined approach toward innovation...

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    Venture Capital's Improved Navigation Of Clean Tech

    April 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Emerging technologies in the field of energy have the potential for tremendous pay out. But the flip side of that equation also means that some ventures require substantial investment to launch....

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    Learning The Practice Of Innovation

    May 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    True innovations are not about a mad scientist in a laboratory. Rather, says Josh Makower, CEO of ExploraMed, innovation is a learned skill, and one can all be taught to be creative and...

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