Vision alone is vision lost. Ideas are cheap and execution is everything. Pieraldi principle is the ration of idea’s to details. 1 idea takes, 100 tasks, with 1,000 details. Validate every good idea through the details.
Today, is a special day. I was asked to changed my previous lecture, which is all prepared and ready to go from last year. A new format is presented. Problem or Opportunity? I’ll take opportunity. Starting today, I am going to document the process of hearing a problem and creating an opportunity. I will be […]
My friends from Sweetch are launching a killer iPhone app to help you guys find on-street parking everytime you drive to the Mission in SF. Give it a try, they guarantee you a spot every day from 9 am to 9 pm and it costs you only $1 if you follow the Sweetch Rules. The link to […]
What great things come from challenge courses at Berkeley? I spoke about Sweetch in my previous post and now I can talk about Kanga Kare and the wonderful IncuPack. Lead by Ken Sandy, VP Product, lynda.com this group really took charge and lead the pack winning our compitition for social entreprenureship last year. How luck we are […]
Sweetch came to UC Berkeley from Ecole Polytechnique in France. They had an idea to managed parking through big data. After some soul searching, work, and lean business practice they developed Sweetch. Educated by the remarkable Bruno Martinaud, they came so well prepared for our industry challenge, the rest is becoming history. You can check out […]
When asked, “What news from the sea?” The fish replied “I have a lot to say, but my mouth is full of water.” Entrepreneur. The word is from the French. Its definition: to undertake. Undertake what? A journey. A journey from vision to destination. A journey filled with passion. Entrepreneurship is essential to the journey. […]
Only build things that directly feed your core revenue stream(s). Here is how you cook it up. Why is google changing the way we build businesses? Core competency exploitation. The key ingredients. First, get a money tree, which they wisely built first. You have to find yours, you can mature into more than one. Decide […]
The land of the free, and the home of the brave… oh how we admire that refrain. Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly […]