Wise Words: Lessons in Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital

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Interviews and best practices for the worlds of: technology, finance and entrepreneurship by nationally syndicated columnist Sean Wise. www.SeanWise.com

10/10/2007

Wise Words: Vol 2, Ep 1: We are smarter than Me

Sean Wise, sits down with Barry Libert, whose new book We are smarter than Me, is the first book on crowdsourcing written by the crowd. Learn how to turn your enemies into allies and your customers into evangelists in this fascinating interview.
09/10/2006

Wise Words vol 1 ep 9: Seed Investor Salim Teja from Brightspark Ventures shares how to raise seed capital

Salim Teja, VP with Brightspark Ventures, talks about his experience raising seed capital as both an entrepreneur with MobShop and as a Venture Capitalist with software centric Brightspark Ventures which focuses on early stage and seed deals
08/22/2006

Wise Words vol 1 ep 8: Adobe's Tom Hale on getting your platform widely adopted

Tom Hale, formerly of Macromedia, and now post merger, a senior VP at Adobe, talks about how to get your platform widely adopted by users globally (flash and acrobat each are on more than 88% of internet enabled desktops worldwide). This interview covers issues such as standardization, developing for end users, and viral marketing.
08/04/2006

Wise Words vol 1 ep 7: Greg Isaacs, head of ebay's developer program, shares how to get others to do your R&D for you, and do so for free

Wise Words vol 1 ep 7: Greg Isaacs, head of ebay's developer program, (#31 on Business 2.0's list of most influential people) shares how to get others to do your R&D for you, and do so for free. Greg shares tips for building an active cadre of developers, balancing internal and external R&D, and how to help expand your company into a community. This is one you don't want to miss!
07/23/2006

Wise Words vol 1 ep 6: IBM's Claudia Fan Munce, Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Venture Capital talks about IBM's approach to doing deals with Startups.

IBM's Claudia Fan Munce, Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Venture Capital talks about IBM's approach to doing deals with Startups and big blue's approach to venture capital.
07/10/2006

Wise Words vol 1 ep 5: Bestselling author, Len Brody shares with us his 8 Golden Rules for Start-ups

Part two of our interview with bestselling author, Venture Capitalist and serial entrepreneur, Len Brody who today shares with us his 8 Golden Rules for Start-ups. Find out: -where founders should be spending most of their time -the secret that the airlines and phone companies still don't get -who is more important: the CEO or CSR -why grey hair isn't enough.
07/09/2006

Wise Words vol 1 ep 4: Bestselling author Len Brody on the rise of Citizen Journalism, Now Public and Why Canada doesn't Suck.

Part one of our two part interview with Mr. Len Brody, author of "Innovation Nation: Canadian Leadership from Java to Jurassic Park" and "Everything I Needed to Know About Business...I Learned from a Canadian", serial entrepreneur (whose credits include being part of the team that was responsible for the largest internet IPO, before Google) and venture partner at GrowthWorks. Len shares with us his thoughts on: the rise of Citizen Journalism; his new venture, NowPublic; why flickr has web 2.0 right; and why Canada doesn't suck!
07/04/2006

Wise Words Vol 1 ep 3: Google's David Lawee on Selling your Start-up for Millions

David Lawee, Principal with Google's M&A group and multiple exit serial entrepreneur (whose last business, Xfire, just sold for more than $100 million) shares with us the secrets of selling your start-up for millions!
06/20/2006

Wise Words vol 1 ep 2: Stowe Boyd on Advisory Boards

This week we sit down with the grandfather of mentoring high growth companies, none other than Mr. Stowe Boyd (www.stoweboyd.com) who shares with us the secrets of building better boards of advisors
06/19/2006

Wise Words vol 1 ep 1: Les Hansen on Selling Software

We talk to Mr. Les Hansen, Executive Vice President of Gavel & Gown, who has: sold his b2b legal office software to over 20,000 firms and users, maintains an active direct sales force and has mastered the art of sales channel management.

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Interviews and best practices for the worlds of: technology, finance and entrepreneurship by nationally syndicated columnist Sean Wise. www.SeanWise.com

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