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Lecture Notes: March 2006
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Random notes from guest speakers at UCSD business school. Saturday, March 18, 2006. Exit Strategies - One VC's Perspective. Bill Stensrud - EPVC. Worst thing you can do starting new job is to do your old job" - Peter Drucker. VCs are private equity "day traders". Buy low, sell high. Business building is 2nd order consideration. The plan is nothing; planning is everything" - Dwight D. Eisenhower. Two ways to get an exit: IPO (very small fraction) or Acquisition. Plan for the exit from Day 1. Theay demand ...
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Lecture Notes: April 2006
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Random notes from guest speakers at UCSD business school. Friday, April 21, 2006. Guest speaker in MGT 222: Innovation and Creativity class. Psyched on Sirius, Skinner, Psychology Today, Scientific American Mind, . Skinner and Creativity. Operant conditioning and incentives. Shaping, not used in business, but should be. Get organism to do something new. Clinical psychologists don't often benefit from their own work. Freud's superstition and neurosis? So many creative options that one can't act on them.
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Lecture Notes: October 2005
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Random notes from guest speakers at UCSD business school. Friday, October 28, 2005. Vanderbilt MBA. Founder Harris Group, Ex-VP entrata? Network storage. Lots of marketing experience. Philips, . Early product connecting storage area networks to overcome the 10km fibre channel limitation. Pragmatic Marketing gives courses in Market requirements document (MRD) and product requirements document (PRD). Peer check advocate. Eng/R&D, Sales, Ops, Controller, Customer Service. Posted by draczula @ 4:44 PM. Most ...
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Lecture Notes: February 2006
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Random notes from guest speakers at UCSD business school. Saturday, February 25, 2006. Lecture at the UCSD. Rady School of Management. From prominent San Diego bioscience Venture capitalist. Venture Investment and Marriage. You are in it to death, IPO, or M&A do you part. Do you really want this deal. No amount of structural tinkerings can make up for bad investment decision! Most investors focus on what can go wrong and what happens if it does. 18 months to wind up a company. Pay or play provisions: inv...
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Thoughts on parenting: March 2005
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Parenting philosophies from the ether. Thursday, March 03, 2005. Let the children choose for themselves. Posted by draczula @ 7:32 PM. Let the children choose for themselves.
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Lecture Notes: November 2005
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Random notes from guest speakers at UCSD business school. Saturday, November 12, 2005. Chris Gopal, president EAS. Defining the supply chain: management, suppliers, outsources/contract manufacturers, Logistics/Fulfillment, Order management, Matching demand and supply, contracts managment, IP protection, BOM/recipe management, metrics. Anecdote: 50% startups lose there IP in first year of venture. Manufacturing companies need to nail supply:demand matching. Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) DSI DSO-DPO=CCC.