Category Archives: Entrepreneurship

Trim the Fat: Applying Lean Startup Concepts to Entrepreneurship, Life, and the Creative Process

May 24, 2010 – 11:44 pm

Turning Vision into Value
If you are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2010 Series…
SVII “First Wednesday” Innovation Society Meeting
June 2nd, 2010
6:00 – 9:30 pm
Featuring a Panel Discussion on:
Trim the Fat: Applying [...]

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From the Entrepreneurial Trenches: The Search for Funding, Unicorns and other Imaginary Creatures

May 2, 2010 – 5:37 pm

Turning Vision into Value
If you are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2010 Series…
SVII “First Wednesday” Innovation Society Meeting
May 5th, 2010
6:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Program:
From the Entrepreneurial Trenches: The Search for Funding, [...]

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What Makes Innovation Stick?

April 3, 2010 – 4:50 pm

Turning Vision into Value
If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2010 Series…
SVII “First Wednesday” Innovation Society Meeting
April 7th, 2010
6:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Program: What Makes Innovation Stick?
Guest Speaker: Ken Ketch
Of course innovation [...]

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The Art of Raising Venture Capital in 2010: Don’t Forget to Do Your Homework!

February 1, 2010 – 12:00 am

Turning Vision into Value
If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2010 Series…
SVII “First Wednesday”
Innovation Society Meeting
February 3rd, 2010
6:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Featured Program: The Art of Raising Venture Capital in 2010:
Don’t forget to [...]

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Tom Foremski Discusses Silicon Valley’s Role as the Global Engine of Innovation

September 28, 2009 – 4:00 pm

Turning Vision into Value
Invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2009 Series…
Next Meeting:
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
6:00-9:30 p.m.

Guest Speaker: Tom Foremski, Publisher and Editor, Silicon Valley Watcher
What are you observing lately, regarding Silicon Valley’s role as the global engine of innovation? Are we experiencing another comeback?
What will [...]

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What Can the Founder of Mavericks Surf Contest Teach Us About Risk and Innovation?

June 3, 2009 – 12:38 am

“You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.”
—Will Rogers
The Science of Waves . . .and the Ecosystem Surrounding the Reef at Mavericks
Presented by Jeff Clark, Founder/Director, Mavericks Surf Contest

PARC Forum—Risk-Takers Series
Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, California
George E. Pake Auditorium
Thursday, June 4, 2009
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Contact: (650) 812-4000
Giant wave [...]

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Social Innovation: Corporate Social Responsiveness in Action

October 1, 2008 – 1:19 pm

Silicon Valley Innovation Institute Upcoming Program:
Social Innovation—CSR in Action
Wednesday, October 1st, 6:00-9:30 p.m.
Guest Speakers:
Rossella Derickson and Krista Henley,
Corporate-Wisdom and CSR in Action
with Cecily Joseph, Symantec
This inspiring feature presentation will guide us to integrate Corporate Social Responsiveness (CSR) into the fabric of our work and our organizations. The guest speakers, authors Rossella Derickson and Krista [...]

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Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s July 2nd Meeting Features Chuck House, Executive Director of Media X at Stanford

June 29, 2008 – 6:25 pm

Silicon Valley Innovation Institute July 2008 First Wednesday Innovation Society Meeting
July 2, 2008
6:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Invite your friends and colleagues, and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2008 Series
Perspectives from a Serial Intrapreneur: Chuck House, Executive Director, MediaX at Stanford University

Join us as Chuck House reflects on intrapreneurship at Hewlett-Packard, Intel, [...]

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Innovative Social Entrepreneur Programs and Alleviating Poverty Through Microfinance

May 4, 2007 – 6:14 am

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
I am on the advisory board, and my company, Creative Sage/Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates, is a partner in the following innovative Social Entrepreneur/corporate philanthropy programs that serve people on local and international levels. Here is the announcement for an upcoming event in San Francisco that we are co-producing, and the Web links:
http://givefoundationonline.blogspot.com/
Global Initiative to [...]

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Study Foresees Profiles of Small Business as Radically Different in 2017

February 1, 2007 – 6:47 pm

Ten-Year Forecast by Intuit and Institute for the Future Redefines the Face of Entrepreneurs
MOUNTAIN VIEW—Jan. 24, 2007—The face of small business will dramatically change as seasoned baby boomers, kids fresh out of high school, mid-career women, “mompreneurs” and new immigrants come together to create the most diverse pool of entrepreneurs ever. Those are [...]

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