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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

He currently has a 1999 strategy. MyTab Next, Heddi Cundle from San Francisco, California, discussed MyTab , an online gift-registry of sorts to raise money for travel. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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Self-Driving Vehicles: The Future Always Takes Longer to Arrive (Part 1)

Agile VC

Adaptive cruise control –> Mitsubishi & Toyota developed LIDAR systems in early ’90s, Mercedes first launched radar systems in 1999). Subsequent challenges in 2005 and 2007 had better results, and the 2007 event was the first actually staged on roads… albeit an abandoned military base in California.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. They attended property management association meetings in Oregon outside of the technology echo chamber of California to get a sense for people’s daily problems. Turn Your Organization Inside Out. This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice.

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“But I only wanted to write” – Five Questions with Wired’s Jessi Hempel

Hunter Walker

I tried a bunch of jobs: I taught fourth grade, worked at a nonprofit, and made an ungodly amount of money doing odd jobs at a dot-com because hey, it was 1999. So, I enrolled in the journalism program at the University of California at Berkeley. I was going to have to figure out how to do it all day, every day.

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Higher Ed Start-Up Teams With Top Universities to Offer ‘Free’ Courses

Campus Entrepreneurship

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive. They didn’t want this to be an engineering-centric effort,” Ms. Koller said of her company’s partner institutions.

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S.

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Terry Time at the NVCA

Seeing Both Sides

  Having an NVCA chairman steeped in that world, at a time when the US Government is looking to perform a top-down re-engineering of the health care system, which is projected to make up 20% of GDP in a few years, is good timing indeed. (4) 4)      Boston.