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[Video] The Inner Net

YoungUpstarts

Here’s one of them – it’s a spoken word poem video production and performance by Oklahoma City-based poet David Bowden, whose style is in the tradition of Beat Poets of the 1950’s and Slam Poets of the 1980’s. Stirring stuff indeed.

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Building Bridges in Oklahoma

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

It’s in Oklahoma City - - but make no mistake — this is now an international event. The theme this year is Building Bridges, and it is an apt one for a diverse state like Oklahoma. Also apt in that it’s always a challenge to bridge the gap between creative people and productive innovation.

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Welcome To The Fall Semester

Feld Thoughts

Fitbit launched two new products yesterday ( Fitbit Zip and Fitbit One ), Return Path launches three today (Email Intelligence!), Amy and I are traveling all over the United States like nomads – San Francisco, Boise, Oklahoma City, St. We just closed Foundry Group 2012 – a new $225 million fund.

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Pitching America’s mayors

Austin Startup

Austin Mayor Steve Adler The event was kicked off by Austin Mayor Steve Adler and MCed by Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett. This allows cities to be proactive instead of reactive as they manage their roadways. They are also preparing to do a pilot test with the United States Postal Service, the largest fleet in America.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 7: Revenue Model

Steve Blank

its product or service) to its customers. They moved from “Reference Libraries” to “Product Libraries”— an on-line social shopping system. (If Veritas team put it into overdrive and did mass interviews of city officials across the United States. In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma it was the city engineer and director of public works.

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Sales Lessons From 13 Year Old Who Sold 22,000 Boxes of Girl Scout Cookies

Hunter Walker

When making the rounds in Oklahoma City, Francis wears her troop uniform and passes out business cards. It’s better,’’ she says, ‘‘not to eat your product.’’ Look and act like a professional, even if you’re just a child. Don’t waste time trying to convince naysayers; instead, ‘‘move on and find the yesses.’’

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After 20 years: Updating the Berkus Method of valuation

Berkonomics

In 2005, Alan McCann created a graphic representation of the Method: Note that Allan changed the title of the risks from technology-execution-market-production to investment-marketing-execution-development. And he added the cohort responsible for each, a nice touch. The Method should allow for this.