Campus Entrepreneurship

The deadline to apply for the UC Davis Green Tech Entrepreneurship Academy has been extended to May 16th. The Academy is for science and technology doctoral students, post-docs, and research faculty. The event will take place over a week in July in Lake Tahoe, NV.
The keynote speaker for the event is going to Armory Lovins. [...]

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The Maxim like photo is what caught my eye. I admit it. I wanted to know who that ‘hottie’ entrepreneur on the cover was. (She was described as such in the article). I was also interested to know if the article, Ning’s Infinite Ambition, had something to offer in understanding social networking and social networking [...]

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Springwise is featuring a story on a Dutch company that uses students as ‘cell phone’ instructors for older users. They teach txt, bluetooth, voice mail management etc.. The company, Bellendoejezo, has been hired by banks, law firms, and an energy company.
Think of how much apparently basic phone/blackberry/iphone etc. knowledge that students have. Think about how [...]

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DC-based accelerator Launchbox Digital is hosting another online chat this week. From their email,

LaunchBox Digital will be hosting another online chat tomorrow, Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 7 pm EDT.  Please join moderator Tom Des Jardins, founder and ex-CTO of Lightningcast, as he leads a discussion on start-up company valuations and investor due diligence.

To join [...]

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Found this via Tim Berry; Small Business Trends blogger Anita Campbell has compiled a list of 100 Marketing Secrets. I appears she called for submissions and this is the output. Its available in a 33 page pdf. Yes, its free. From her site,
A big THANK YOU, dear readers, for the outstanding marketing tips you contributed [...]

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The public launch of my new startup is in about 4 weeks. While the site will not be fully functional, I do want the ability to capture users and provide information on the full scope of whats to come. (You may not remember but my company is in the consumer internet space).
Moreover, I want to [...]

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This blog has discussed the extensive opportunities available to green entrepreneurs in and around the campus. According the the National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship, there is now an Eco-Patents Commons site where entrepreneurs (and others) can visit to see sustainable patents etc.. that are available. From the NDE email:

 
An interesting new initiative from the World [...]

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There is always opportunity, if you look in the right places. Below is a great post on opportunity from Seth Godin (required reading for entrepreneurs — Idea Virus). Here is the post in full, from his blog;

So, there’s plenty of bad economic news floating around. From the price of oil to Wall Street to bailouts [...]

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After the internet collapsed in 2001, I returned to b-school at U of C and started reading about the CA gold rush; trying to make sense of the bust. One lesson I learned was that when rushes/booms are on, a sure fire way of making money was ‘mining the miners.’ My favorite from the gold [...]

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I found Donald Latumahina’s blog, Life Optimizer, on Alltop.com under the lifehacks section. Donald’s posting, Simple Guide to Finding Opportunities is well worth the read. Many of you out there are probably already doing some of the things he recommends, but it is a nice succinct list and entry. Bottom line is that people who [...]

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