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Funding Strategies

Innovation in Entrepreneurship – A Case Study on Keen Mobility

March 10, 2010

This post first appeared on Blogging Innovation as Helping Others Go Vertical on 3/7/2010 Keen Mobility is a story of innovation, invention and entrepreneurship. Innovation is often focused on inventions and new products, but innovation is also a new way of thinking about conventional wisdom.  Jeffrey Phillips wrote an insightful post “Innovation, Invention and Entrepreneurs”, [...]

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Four Ways to Build a Business

May 3, 2009

I attended a panel discussion on Friday at the MIT Club of Northern California, Convergence, Community and Commerce (C3) program moderated by Sramana Mitra, strategy consultant and Forbes columnist, on the Art and Science of Bootstrapping. This topic is near and dear to my way of thinking about building a business. The panel was marvelous, [...]

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Why the Stimulus Package is The New Black

April 22, 2009

If you have a great idea, but start your elevator pitch with “VC’s won’t fund this because…” have a look at the federal stimulus package. Here is a new funding source that is going to give our much loved and much maligned VCs some competition. Peruse a few VC firm websites and you will be [...]

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