corporate-venturing 
Steve Blank
MARCH 26, 2014
Henry is the Faculty Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation , at U.C. Henry and I teach a corporate innovation class together. The question of how corporations can be more innovative is one I have wrestled with for a long time. Berkeley in the Haas Business School.
K9 Ventures
AUGUST 13, 2010
In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., A $1 check triggers all kinds of red flags — why would a multi-billion dollar corporation be writing a check for one dollar? (We Google’s first business model was to sell/license search to the major portals (Yahoo! we began by building chat servers.
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abovethecrowd.com
JULY 17, 2013
Over 45% of Yelp’s* searches begin on mobile. The applications can also leverage mobile-only features such as GPS search and the camera interface. The next obvious transition was the rise of the browser in 1996, which transformed not only the software application market but also the print and media world. Yelp for local).
Up and Running
MAY 23, 2016
Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. Only talking to real-life people will help you figure out whether you’ve got a good product, or just a solution in search of a problem, or a product in search of a market.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.
infochachkie.com
DECEMBER 5, 2011
Google is not descriptive of the company’s search core competency nor was it particularly easy to pronounce, spell or remember when the site was initially launched. Legend asserts that the name change from Cadabra was prompted by Yahoo’s alphabetized listing of search results. Copyright © 2007-9 by J. Meredith Publishing.
Hearpreneur
FEBRUARY 26, 2017
Everyone who decides to start a business or an entrepreneurial venture does it for their own specific reason. There can be a lot of restrictions and guidelines when you’re working in a corporate setting, which can make it difficult to really feel creative. Share Being an entrepreneur is the road rarely traveled.
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