Getting To Plan B: Randy Komisar, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins (Part 4)

SM: You said that you like to get involved with companies early and help them solidify positioning; is that because you are good at it? Most VCs don’t do it, and even if they did they would not have a clue how to do it. RK: It’s just what I do. I agree that most

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Getting To Plan B: Randy Komisar, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins (Part 3)

SM: Could you contrast your proposed process to a business plan? RK: With a business plan, in a more conventional process, somebody would have identified a solution. It may not even be a solution to a real problem.

Getting To Plan B: Randy Komisar, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins (Part 2)

SM: Let’s get your basic concepts together. I saw four key concepts in your book; the concepts of analog, antilog, dashboard, and leaps of faith. RK: The way I think about the entrepreneurial or innovation process is from a “what’s the problem I am trying to solve” standpoint. In my business, I look for the

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Getting To Plan B: Randy Komisar, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins (Part 1)

Randy Komisar is a co-founder of Claris Corporation, served as CEO for LucasArts Entertainment and Crystal Dynamics, and acted as a “virtual CEO” for such companies as WebTV and GlobalGiving. Prior to that, he served as CFO of GO Corporation and senior counsel for Apple Computer, following a private practice in technology law. Randy holds

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A Public University’s Online Journey: Hunt Lambert of CSU (Part 7)

SM: Is online education a trend that is emerging across all states in the US? HL: I would say that every state has tried or is trying to do this. One thing that makes our story interesting is that right now, every other state entity that has tried to do this has failed in one

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A Public University’s Online Journey: Hunt Lambert of CSU (Part 6)

SM: What role does the faculty play in your program? Do they largely focus on putting the courses together? HL: There are two roles. We have a course development team that builds the course. We also have a faculty member assigned to every 20 undergrad students and 17 grad students who are expected to be

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A Public University’s Online Journey: Hunt Lambert of CSU (Part 5)

SM: Your thesis was that CSU’s charter was public education for Colorado, so you wanted to use proven online teaching methodologies and apply them to the Colorado brand. What were the mechanics of making that happen? HL: I told the board that they needed to set us up as a separate campus and give us

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A Public University’s Online Journey: Hunt Lambert of CSU (Part 4)

SM: I imagine that at some point your friends at Colorado State University asked you to take on the online education product? HL: By that time, I had already gotten the Entrepreneurship Center up and running and had just created the Office of Economic Development. That was done to try and grow the value of

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