Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 24: Drew Silverstein and Craig Kanarick
“This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact…print the legend” The Hollywoodization of Silicon Valley startup stories “prints legends,” but for most startups those stories are pure fiction....
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 25: Nigel and Vaughn Caldon and Kerry...
Tenacity and resilience. Getting people to buy in to your startup vision takes a thick skin, perseverance and willingness to learn. You’ll probably be laughed out of several boardrooms along the way....
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 26: Javier Saade and Hillary Hartley
The U.S. government is discovering that Lean innovation can help them serve the country better and faster. The Small Business Administration and the digital services agency 18F are trying to help...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 27: Brandon Bruce and Jack Sundell
When your customers are grabbing your Minimal Viable Product out of your hands, it’s time to launch the product. The latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere explained why. The radio show airs on...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 28: Magdalena Yesil and Michael Mondavi
If I had spent less time on the business and more time with the family, we’d have been better off as a business and as a family. Family must come first in a family business. And if others don’t get...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 29: Ajay Kshatriya and Steven Cohn
Entrepreneurs see opportunity where others see obstacles and why hubris is an entrepreneur’s worst enemy, were two topics of discussion on my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. The show...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 30: Guido Kovalskys and Doris Korda
There was a time when having the information gave you the power. That’s no longer the key. The problem isn’t getting information or data; it’s knowing what to do with it. Founders will always encounter...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 31: Congressmen Dan Lipinski and Seth...
Lean methodologies have changed the way science is commercialized in the U.S. Now it is changing how we protect the homeland and keep Americans safe and around the world. How the U.S. government has...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok...
Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley allow big companies to sense and respond to rapid changes in technology. Big data is changing how we view the world, and is the fuel for machine intelligence. How...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere: Show No. 33: David Comisford and Omar Zenhom
A huge lesson is to raise money at the appropriate time. We didn’t understand our value proposition. We didn’t even have a fully baked-out product. We weren’t ready. So we failed. Every time I started...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 34: Deputy Secretary of State Antony J....
Countries or people you meet sometimes don’t like our policies on a given issue, but what they almost universally admire and aspire to is American entrepreneurship, innovation, education, science and...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 35: Jessica Mah and Peggy Burke
At 19 I thought that I would be able to work really hard on my startup, and then in a year we’d have break out success. We’d raise this money, users would just grow like crazy, and we’d have a huge...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 36: Jim Semick and Peter Arvai
Given all that I’ve seen in my career I don’t sweat the small stuff. We didn’t talk about product; we didn’t talk about organization or raising money. We talked about our values, we talked about our...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 37: Michael Ingle and Graeme Gordon
I simply wasn’t happy in corporate America. I was a square peg in a round hole and needed to be someplace where I could think creatively. You are 100% responsible for your own decisions, your career,...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 38: Ryan Smith and Lane Merrifield
If you don’t value your product neither will your customers. No one used it when we gave it away for free. Freemium was a going out of business strategy. When a reporter asked, “Your kids must think...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 39: Jeremy Johnson and Michael Eidsaune
The existence of a problem doesn’t mean there’s a solution to that problem. Wanting to create impact is great. But to do it, you need to actually have a sustainable business model. I don’t recommend...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 40: Stan Gloss and Matt Armstead
A lot of people, especially in the Midwest, will spend their time thinking too small. They’re a creature of their habit and habitat, in looking at potential investors and market opportunities. If you...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Sunny Shah and Curt Haselton
We as researchers go in with a bias – that obviously these guys want our technology – but that is not the case for a lot of customers. What you think about your technology is great, but at the end of...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Tina Fitch and Alice Brooks
The more that people pay you, the more influence customers feel they should have, but they don’t necessarily know what they want. Customers will try to be polite and tell you want you want to hear. We...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher
I always told myself that I would stop pushing forward when there was an overwhelming force from the outside saying that this is not working. But even when I reached that point, I continued to try to...
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