Emerging Technologies
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In conversation with Charles River Ventures' George Zachary, Peter Diamandis, founder of the X PRIZE, describes how prizes for great, global, revolutionary achievement are a new form of philanthropy. He funds the X PRIZE with both private gifts and corporate funds, and outlines how prizes can be an efficient investment in new technologies with tremendous returns.
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Pedro Aspe, Former Secretary of Finance, Mexico and CEO of Protego, discusses two central conditions for an entrepreneurial society: 1) Education and 2) Reliable Institutions. Aspe emphasizes the importance of removing discretionary power, in matters of trade and finance, from the hands of public officials in order increase the reliability of an economic system. Aspe associates the remaining discretionary power on these matters with the...more
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The boom in European colonial expansion in the second half of the nineteenth century, the so-called New Imperialism, can be seen to follow from three principle factors, in ascending order of importance: religious proselytizing, profit, and inter-imperial political strategy. With respect to the latter concern, the conflicts emerging from imperialism set the stage for World War I. Along with its military and industrial consequences,...more
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Recently, Komisar has noticed that the IPO market is reopening and VCs are becoming anxious to invest. There are a number of companies lined up to go public. There tends to be a lag in the markets of step technologies, while the customers catch up to the advance, but they do catch up and a large amount of value is created in the process, he says.
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Ringold discusses in detail two ways of categorizing companies. Type A companies have found a solution for a fundamental problem. Technology or new approaches have been invented to help solve that problem. Type B companies, like Genentech, use old technologies in novel applications.
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Earl shares his thoughts about the plausibility of starting a game development company in the current environment. He explains that with the release of new consoles and the growth in mobile technologies, it is a great time to start a company with a target audience in mind.
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Jack Leslie, Chairman of Weber Shandwick, discusses the lessons he learned regarding emerging economies and entrepreneurship. First, Leslie argues that the creation of freedom and prosperity comes from a nation's internal entrepreneurial spirit, not imposed from above or abroad. Second, Leslie suggests that an entrepreneurial society is at the foundation of a free political society by allowing individuals to be reliant on themselves...more
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Winblad explains that companies use both a .net and a Java standard and neither has taken over. Most likely, neither will. Customers like to have a blend of technologies and programmers like to be looking at the new latest thing so there is currently no force to change to a single standard.
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April 22, 2009 - Scott McGaraghan, director of business development for EnerNOC, Inc., discusses current and developing technologies to maximize the potential energy saving benefits of local and national-level smart grid systems.
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Mandelbaum moved into the outdoor toy market because she loves sports and outdoor games. She is thriving at Monitor because they focus on companies that have developed innovative applications for technologies that exist, rather than brave new world startups.
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Find people smarter than you, and hang on to them for dear life. This doesn't just apply to the talent you hire, but also to the people you work alongside to build and shape your emerging venture. Jay Coen Gilbert, Bart Houlahan, and Andrew Kassoy all co-manage B Labs on equal footing. Here, Coen Gilbert and Houlahan cite the decision to manage as a team essential to the operation's success.
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June 28, 2007 presentation by Michael Longaker for the Stanford University Office of Science Outreach's Summer Science Lecture Series. Dr. Michael Longaker, Director or Children's Surgical Research, explains how regenerative, reparative, replacement and tissue engineering medicine represent an emerging field that holds great promise for core problems in medicine world wide.
