Archive for August, 2007
The question is does it work? Does all this educational activity actually produce more (and more successful) entrepreneurs? The consensus seems to be—as you might expect—yes and no.
What matters, Experience or Education?
Many entrepreneurs, particularly serial entrepreneurs, tend to argue that the secret of their success is that they have already created similar business [...]
Welcome back ENTR students + Gaming Industry Alive and Well + TV2.0 + U3 = f(U)
8 Comments Published August 20th, 2007 in Daily PostAfter a few hours/days back from your summer break, I’m certain you need something less serious to occupy your time. Here is a free game that will do just that. Little Cowboy is a 3D 3rd-person shooter game. The Little Cowboy has a treacherous journey. He must do battle with Mad Cows, Angry Braves, [...]
Three San Jose start-up employees have discovered how to eat well inexpensively, and they re sharing their discoveries in a new cookbook called Eat, Drink, Breath Like a Start-up. From: www.siliconvalley.com assessed 8/20/07 7:04 AM.
Everyone from the President of Venezuela to one of the big oil think tanks believes that oil could spike well above $70 and remain there. The elements that would contribute to a big rise include lack of supply from OPEC and interruptions of drilling in Nigeria, the Middle East, or South America. And then there [...]
My Dad, American Inventor
TOMMY HABEEB just wanted to be one of the new breed of involved dads: the hands-on guys who preside over bath time without creating a flood; the ones who return home from work early enough to crawl after their children toward the realm of make-believe. His ambitions did not include inventing the [...]
OK boys and girls. You seemed to like animoto.com’s support for presenting your pictures in an innovative fashion. Check out www.fuzzwich.com, to really stretch your imagination. BTW, Poncho, the young student in the yo-yo post of a couple days ago, corrected several errors I made discussing his performance - thanks Poncho. In any event, Poncho [...]
Animoto.com is getting good vibes from Purdue’s students. In the first presentation below, a brother of second year CS Ph.D. student Nwokedi mashed up pictures of his recent visit to his home country, Nigeria. In the second, incoming sophomore Ericka did a mash up of logos for a company she worked with this summer.
It Never [...]
Scott Jones
A high-tech CEO’s Midwestern megamanse
Scott Jones, CEO of search engine ChaCha, has built a high-tech wonderland of a mansion in central Indiana to rival any abode in Silicon Valley. The 27,000 sq. ft. English country manor, selected by HGTV as the No. 1 home in America, melds old-world charm with a hardcore nerd’s wet [...]
This YouTube features Poncho Peligroso, a sophomore film major @ Simon Rock College, doing his thang with a $100, 888 yo-yo. Good way to work off frustrations with yourself, your startup, yourself, your significant other, did I say, yourself? Hank
Hank [BS/MSEE,
MSM $$$, Ph.D. Mgmt] teaches