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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? Just a minor nitpicky point: San Jose is actually much larger than SF, in both population and land area.

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ProfessorVC: Bootstrapping 101

Professor VC

I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. His goal in building the company was to spend 3 years building value and find a good home for the engineers and product. Bootstrapping 101.

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ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor VC

However, for most of the rest of us, the analytical skills honed in college or grad school, along with the opportunity to network and explore different fields prove invaluable later. With that in mind, I created a new course at San Jose State last year, the Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab). May 14, 2010 10:56 PM. Steve Bennet.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Bootstrap Freemium Ventures?

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. Also, Irit Dabby from Tel-Aviv, Israel, discussed GoodyTag , a neat concept about tagging photos of products differently than you would tag or 'like' a regular link or photo on social media. Discuss.

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ProfessorVC: Why didn't I think of that??

Professor VC

The NIF brings together students from all parts of the university (business, computer science, mechanical engineering, design, life science, etc.) This was a collaboration between students in industrial design, electrical engineering and business. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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ProfessorVC: 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship

Professor VC

He was the first American in 30 years to graduate from the 5-year brewing program at the Technical University of Munich , the highest technical degree in brewing engineering. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Episode 3: A Startup Comic Book Company, How to Find a Mentor, and #BigData – The Bcast

Up and Running

Someone tweeted out of San Jose, they did a really amazing review of the book. At least it wasn’t for me, and people in my social network. If you are an e-commerce site, then whatever e-commerce engine you’re using should be giving that kind of data. That ink smell. They really liked the book.