Posted by on under google apps, bradley horowitz, google, dave mcclure, leard, aviary, mth, speer, chunk, palo alto, attendees, vp, peers, entrepreneur, buzz, dozens, third party services, investors, innovation | 
Last night dozens of entrepreneurs and investors met up in Palo Alto for
Startup2Startup, a program founded by
Dave McClure and
Leonard Speiser that's meant to help new entrepreneurs connect with their peers, and perhaps meet some potential investors. Each month, Startup2Startup invites a seasoned entrepreneur or tech executive to speak to the attendees; this month's guest was Google VP Product for Google Apps
Bradley Horowitz, who is charged with managing a big chunk of Google's services, including Docs, Gmail, Calendar, Voice, and more. We've embedded the full video of the talk below. During his talk, Horowitz spoke at length about Google's new
Apps Marketplace, which allows businesses using Google Apps to easily sign up for a variety of third party services like TripIt and Aviary, directly linking them to their Google accounts.
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Posted by on under sba loan program, gourmet stores, kitchen timer, cornell university, digital kitchen, twitter, prior knowledge, working knowledge, mechanical engineering, facets, entrepreneur, us government, mba, bs, third party, creati, boxes, perspective, audience, chi |
Adam Hocherman, 34, is an entrepreneur and founder of the consumer electronics company American Innovative in Boston, MA. Adam founded the company in 2003 with the help of the US Government's SBA loan program and is currently the 100% owner. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA, both from Cornell University. Adam's writings can be found on his blog at DesignTheatre.net and through his Twitter feed. He welcomes your comments. Read more about sourcing in China here. Part III of the Going It Alone series will answer the question: What is a factory and how can I tell one from another? I will answer the question from a consumer electronics perspective and I will assume an audience that has little or no prior knowledge of manufacturing. The purpose of this article will be to try to introduce the burgeoning entrepreneur to the basic components of electronics manufacturing in China. I will do this in the context of manufacturing the simple electronic product shown below - a digital kitchen timer that we call the
Klip! This is an item that we sell at
The Container Store chain and at gourmet stores across the United States. I chose this product because, while relatively simple, it still encompasses all of the major facets (noted in the white boxes) of manufacturing a mass-produced electronic item of greater complexity. I'll start with a little background, then I'll give a very basic overview of each manufacturing sub-process and I'll conclude with a summary that will serve to make your first visit to a third-party manufacturing facility more effective and productive. Armed with the knowledge from this post you should be able to walk into an Asian plant for the first time and have the basic working knowledge that you need to converse intelligently about the creation of your item.
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Posted by on under fortune seekers, madna, hot market, reas, compas, siblings, entrepreneur, pers, circumstances, indonesia, parents |
I’ve long argued that
great entrepreneurs are born not made. I emphasize the word "great" for a reason. A hot market can convince someone to become an entrepreneur but such fortune-seekers are rarely the ones who build lasting, billion-dollar companies. What about those who say they never intended to start a company but circumstances lead them to success? I’d argue that they may not have always realized they were entrepreneurs, but if you asked their friends, parents and siblings, they would describe them as having always been the kid with the lemonade stand, the kid working an angle, the kid creating something where there was nothing. Like a cylon, something just switched it on later. Seeing an idea through to become something huge is too hard. You simply have it or you don’t. One person has made me question this—a bit. I met him in Indonesia and like Madonna, he’s mostly known by one name—Ciputra.
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Posted by on under rich skrenta, venture investors, billis, secd, cier, search market, google, cofounder, beta testers, startups, launch, milli, market share, topix, entrepreneur, ace, few days, ceo, blekko, angel |
It takes a crazier than average entrepreneur to go after the search market. There's an entrenched player, Google, with 65% market share. Google is so powerful the second player, Yahoo, just bailed out of the market. And third place Microsoft is throwing billions of dollars around just to get in the game. We've seen Wikia, Cuil and other well backed startups try and fail at search. Now
Blekko is preparing to launch. Will they find success where everyone else has failed? They've been working on Blekko for 2.5 years now - we
first covered them in January 2008. Cofounder and CEO
Rich Skrenta had just left his previous company, Topix. Blekko has raised three rounds of financing since then, totaling
$20 million, from some of the most respected angel and venture investors in Silicon Valley. Blekko remain in private alpha, although I've had the chance to test the engine over the last few days. They will shortly begin letting a few beta testers onto the site, and a full launch will happen later this summer.
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Posted by on under wearable computer, gizmodo, cyborg, researcher, entrepreneur |
Someday humans and computers will meld together to create cyborgs. But instead of waiting for it, Martin Magnusson, a Swedish researcher and entrepreneur, has taken the first step and created a
wearable computer that can be slung across the body.
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Tagi: wearable computer, gizmodo, cyborg, researcher, entrepreneur
