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Making Money in the Life Sciences Venture Business Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Despite the huge investments, regulatory burdens, and uncertain market place, Burrill talks about how venture businesses investing in the life sci...

Balance of Structure and Ambiguity Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Eisenhardt provides an example of where structure and ambiguity live in harmony at Yahoo.

Culture Archetypes: People-first Culture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Andy Friere, Co-founder and CEO of Axialent, describes the people-first culture archetype, one of the five basic cultural archetypes into which or...

Managing the Burn Rate Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Larsen and Breyer explain the lessons learned during the bubble. They suggest that it is important to spend frugally and get the maximum value for ...

Naming a Start-up Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Donna Novitsky discusses the role of a company’s name in business. A company's name should be easy to spell and publish online. She stress...

The Offerings of a Commercial Bank Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 In addition to a suite of banking products, a financial institution for a growing business offers numerous other services, says Silicon Valley Ban...

Three Facets of Business Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Edgar Bronfman, Jr., CEO of Warner Music Group, believes business is a circular concept that can be described using three words: believe, listen, ...

Running a Print Business in a Paperless World Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 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-fas...

Stages of a Startup Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Ashwin Navin, Co-founder and President of Bit Torrent, alludes to a theory by Bob Cringely about the three stages of a company - Commandos, Infant...

Government and Entrepreneurship: The Evolution of Entrepreneurship in China Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Tarun Khanna, Professor at Harvard Business School, argues that the old equation that government = inefficient does not hold unilaterally but depe...

Challenges of Hiring Good People Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 William Sahlman, professor at Harvard Business School, argues that recruiting good people is hard and while an entrepreneur is bound to make mista...

Reframing the Photo Market Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Jeff Housenbold recalls that he was spending nearly two thousand dollars a year on Shutterfly.com before he came on as CEO. His personal experience...

Career Advice for Students about Entrepreneurship Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Larsen and Breyer provide career advice to students. The most important thing is to be passionate about what you do, they say. They also suggest t...

Differences between a VC and an Entrepreneur Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Donna Novitsky illuminates the operational differences between a Venture Capitalist (VC) and an entrepreneur. She contrasts them from her personal ...

Career Advice Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Penchina emphasizes the importance of people skills and reveals some lessons he wish he knew when he was in school.

Influencing Positive Corporate Culture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Visiting with every single employee bank-wide, Silicon Valley Bank CEO Ken Wilcox believes that personal correspondence is one of the best ways to...

Serving Various Roles at Mozilla Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Baker talks about her different roles at Mozilla, beginning with a position as a lawyer writing a public license that governs the Mozilla project....

How Mozilla’s Goal Differs From Other Industry Players Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Baker talks about the fundamental difference in the ultimate goal of Mozilla from other industry players. It is to maximize the Internet as an open...

Balancing Information Asymmetry for the Entrepreneur Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 Mitch Kapor has been an entrepreneur since the 1980’s, and here he pinpoints useful websites, educational programs, and learning opportunities tha...

Creative Direct Marketing Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: September 22, 2009 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...

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