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Engineering Entrepreneurship: May 2014
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One academic’s look at the life cycle of technology-based startups — from the standpoint of practice, teaching and research. Friday, May 23, 2014. New models of biotech entrepreneurship. Thursday night, the Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable concluded its 2014 Onestart. Following the initial (2013) competition in London,. The American competition began with December's submission of pre-proposals by 150 teams. 35 of these teams. Including one led by current KGI MBS students. The 10 US finalists reflected an inte...
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Engineering Entrepreneurship: Risk-taking and risk aversion
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One academic’s look at the life cycle of technology-based startups — from the standpoint of practice, teaching and research. Saturday, June 8, 2013. Risk-taking and risk aversion. The cover of the. 8224; Monday proclaimed. Risk-Averse Culture Infects U.S. Workers, Entrepreneurs. The concentration of VC in Silicon Valley can be read two ways: VC only wants Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, or entrepreneurs know they should move to Silicon Valley to get funding. And as everyone knows, the companies that VC...
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Engineering Entrepreneurship: Replaying the "Greater Fool" theory 15 years later
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One academic’s look at the life cycle of technology-based startups — from the standpoint of practice, teaching and research. Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Replaying the "Greater Fool" theory 15 years later. From the “Heard on the Street” section of this morning’s. Testing Silicon Valley’s Greater-Fool Strategy. Lofty valuations for venture-backed companies like Uber and Snapchat depend on the stock-market off-ramp staying open. Overall, private valuations are about as high now as during the dot-com bubble, ac...
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Engineering Entrepreneurship: June 2014
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One academic’s look at the life cycle of technology-based startups — from the standpoint of practice, teaching and research. Sunday, June 29, 2014. Drag on startups is drag on the economy. We know that entrepreneurs are essential to economic growth in the U.S., but two economists (one of them Nobel) brought this point home last week:. Behind the Productivity Plunge: Fewer Startups. By Edward C. Prescott and Lee H. Ohanian. If history is any indication, many of today's economic heavyweights will ultimatel...
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Engineering Entrepreneurship: October 2013
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One academic’s look at the life cycle of technology-based startups — from the standpoint of practice, teaching and research. Saturday, October 26, 2013. Buy, dont start a company. In doing research for my first (journal) article on 3D printing, I found an interesting article that suggests young entrepreneurs should consider buying a small growth business rather than start one from scratch. From the October 28 dead tree edition of. Columnist George Anders cites a study of “search funds”. The entrepreneurs...
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Engineering Entrepreneurship: June 2013
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One academic’s look at the life cycle of technology-based startups — from the standpoint of practice, teaching and research. Saturday, June 8, 2013. Risk-taking and risk aversion. The cover of the. 8224; Monday proclaimed. Risk-Averse Culture Infects U.S. Workers, Entrepreneurs. The concentration of VC in Silicon Valley can be read two ways: VC only wants Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, or entrepreneurs know they should move to Silicon Valley to get funding. And as everyone knows, the companies that VC...
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Engineering Entrepreneurship: February 2014
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One academic’s look at the life cycle of technology-based startups — from the standpoint of practice, teaching and research. Wednesday, February 26, 2014. If Facebook kills entrepreneurship, what’s next? The $19b that Facebook paid to buy WhatsApp is shaking up Silicon Valley,. As other Internet startups try to figure out how they can get their own inflated multiple. Entrepreneurship guru Steve Blank tweeted. Steve blank @sgblank Feb 24. 8230; more relevant today. Facebook and Social Media. If investors...
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Engineering Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial opportunities from 3D printing
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One academic’s look at the life cycle of technology-based startups — from the standpoint of practice, teaching and research. Saturday, June 7, 2014. Entrepreneurial opportunities from 3D printing. This week has been my week for 3D printing in Europe. I gave a talk. On the industry’s history at a workshop. In my talk, I said the flurry of consumer 3D printing startups since 2005 can be attributed to. The “maker” movement,. Open design communities (as that term is defined by Christina Raasch. This reminds ...
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Engineering Entrepreneurship: Incubating, accelerating and funding life science startups
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One academic’s look at the life cycle of technology-based startups — from the standpoint of practice, teaching and research. Monday, June 15, 2015. Incubating, accelerating and funding life science startups. On Thursday I visited the SF Indie Bio. Demo Day. The San Francisco life science accelerator was graduating its first class of 12 early-stage startups. Indie Bio was launched and funded by SOSVentures. Cohort admission process (two cohorts per year). While Y Combinator has been a great success —...
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Engineering Entrepreneurship: August 2013
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One academic’s look at the life cycle of technology-based startups — from the standpoint of practice, teaching and research. Saturday, August 24, 2013. Cleantech entrepreneurs thinking big. Cross-posted from Cleantech Business. As an MIT alum interested in clean energy, I subscribe to the free semiannual magazine. The purpose of the magazine is to tout MIT advances in energy technology, but since MIT (with the MIT Energy Initiative. In the spring issue, one article. As with any BIPV (Building Integrated ...
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