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Research on MicroFranchising
By David Stoker, Guest Author While the concept of microfranchising sounds simple and exciting, and successful models are starting to emerge, there are endless opportunities for research in methodology and impact evaluation. One university that is dedicating specific resources to researching the field of microfranchising is Brigham Young University in Utah. Their business school houses
Story of an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Raj Vaswani (Part 3)
Raj initially began his time at the University of Washington as a PhD student in their computer science department. He credits this environment as his first real encounter of the entrepreneurial or startup culture. This is also in the timeframe when the Internet began to pick up steam. SM: What was that like, being a
Story of an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Raj Vaswani (Part 2)
In this next segment, Raj discusses his school career. He again claims to be the recipient of good fortune and a bit of luck in terms of getting unique student jobs and positions which helped him develop his technical skills. SM: What was your experience like at UC Berkeley? RV: While I was at Cal,
Story of an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Raj Vaswani (Part 1)
Raj Vaswani is currently the Chief Technology Officer with Silver Spring Networks. Equally as important and interesting for my audience is that he also has completed an Entrepreneur-in-Residence program with Foundation Capital. While I did discuss his overall background, as well as his role in founding Silver Spring Networks, Raj also provided some good insights
Defying Google: Adify CEO, Russ Fradin (Part 16)
The discussion below is more specific to my own blog, and since I happen to be an Adify customer, I asked Russ some details about what are some of my options – current and future. I choose to publish it because I am sure there are other bloggers out there who would find this information
Some Wise Words for Entrepreneurs
By Cal McElroy, Guest Author A friend and advisor of our company, Sean Wise just published a new book… “Wise Words – Lessons in Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital.” You can download or buy the printed book [here] I have known Sean for many years and used his counsel on many occasions. He has been successful
Defying Google: Adify CEO, Russ Fradin (Part 15)
Strategy, market opportunity identification, positioning … all this good stuff apart, a successful ad network would require Adify to be able to execute in conjunction with the large media companies at many more levels of operational excellence. There, as per my own experience, so far, both Adify and Washington Post are only moderately acceptable. By
Defying Google: Adify CEO, Russ Fradin (Part 14)
SM: Are you getting the visibility at the right level of executive sponsorship at these large media companies? RF: I can tell you there are a lot of very senior folks at Washington Post that I have personally met. Beyond just them, deciding to build a network is a very important decision for a brand.