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Optimism in Overcoming Challenges Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Rodrigo Jordan, Founder of Vertical, describes a challenge in making the first crossing of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica, highlighting the...

Separation from Nokia’s Core Business Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 According to Keller-Bottom, when you are in a big company and trying to do something that differs with the core business of the company, then you ...

Who Owns What? Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Beth Seidenberg, a partner at VC firm KPCB, says that in the beginning of a company’s life cycle, founders typically own the majority of a budding...

Working with Great People Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Waldorf underlines the importance of collaborating with great people; people with qualities similar to those of good teachers or bosses. Once the r...

How Much Money to Raise? Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Michael Cline and Jason Green, Founding Partners at Accretive Technology Partners and Emergence Capital respectively, argue that when raising mone...

The Accelerating Pace of Change Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Rodrigo Jordan, Founder of Vertical, suggests that technology and paradigms are changing at an accelerating pace. Because of this, what made one s...

Using Agents to Help Raise Money Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Jason Green, Founding Partner at Emergence Capital, suggests that agents are generally not used to help raise funds in an early stage company alth...

An Angel Investor’s Strategic Advice for the Start-Up Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 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 bu...

Learning from History Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Keller-Bottom gives entrepreneurs some tips and asks them to learn from history and understand the market to help shape their businesses.

Network Effect in Web-based Companies Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Jung talks about the importance of empowering an entrepreneur’s target audience in acquiring customers. Viral marketing is one of the ways to acqui...

Attracting High Quality Business Opportunities Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Bloom describes how he has been able to magnetize his company, Podshow, to advertisers by allowing only global brands, to the audience by allowing...

Popularity of Open Source Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Polese discusses why open source is popular amongst venture capitalists.

The Rise of the Superclass Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 We can’t legislate against historical trends in the global age, but we can look more closely at the well-networked superclass - those who have bro...

The 80/20 Rule Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Just twenty percent of the members in any group or social system own eighty percent of the assets, indicative that scale indicates a growing conce...

The 80/20 Rule Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Just twenty percent of the members in any group or social system own eighty percent of the assets, indicative that scale indicates a growing conce...

Three Most Critical Elements of Venture Success: People, Customers and Sales Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 William Sahlman, professor at Harvard Business School, states that people, customers and sales are the critical ingredients of venture success. Sp...

Five Metrics for Venture Success Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 How do investors gauge whether a company is one from a pool of thousands worth their resources? KPCB parter Beth Seidenberg shares her firm’s five ...

Importance of Money Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Agassi talks about the importance of money and its role in shaping the way entrepreneurs think about their businesses. An entrepreneur should not b...

Creating Opportunities Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Eisenhardt believes that markets are not chosen but created. She describes how this was successfully done at Amazon, eBay and Verisign. She explai...

Incentives for People in a Community-Based Organization Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Mitchell Baker, CEO of Mozilla, describes the richness in decision-making authority that one is endowed with while working in a community-based or...

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