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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007Anyone that has read a newspaper or watched television the past few years is surely aware that it has been a tough decade for North American car companies. In the face of dominating foreign competition, sky rocketing operating costs, and an overstressed health insurance infrastructure – corporations like Ford and GM have begun abandoning […]
How To Network Outside the Valley
Thursday, April 12th, 2007Join the Outside the Valley Network! Send your email address to linkedin-at - outsidethevalley.com and we will send you an invitation to our LinkedIn group.
The best way to get things done is to know the right people. That sounds easy, but it’s not. When you live in the Valley and you need […]
Recreating Silicon Valley
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007Once you have identified the DNA of a process, structure, or entity – you can, ‘in theory’, replicate it. This is fundamentally how companies have spread innovation across multiple leadership tenures, geographic regions and strategic regimes.
Think about Toyota. How have they been able to spawn a profitable, industry changing company across […]
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
Thursday, March 29th, 2007Over the past few years there has been an increasing debate surrounding entrepreneurship and education . Can it be taught? Is it innate? Should you go to school for it or should you simply start a business? Does an MBA provide more clout than a few years with a gritty startup? Though […]
A Startup Postmortem
Friday, March 2nd, 2007Here is an interesting analysis of an attempt to start a Q&A web site.
…the more we moved down the path, the more I realized the complexities involved with selling answers. Knowledge is a tricky thing to sell, because even experts disagree on some answers. What’s worse, most people think they know more than they really […]
