What mine is yours: the rise of collaborative consumption
Imagine a life without possession but with sharing. When my parents come to Pittsburgh for my graduation, I log in ‘Zipcar’ application on my i-Phone, choose a car located in the campus garage, and pay for 2 hour drive to pick up...
How entreprenuership is helping India’s poor
Entrepreneurs are people who manage and organize an enterprise usually with considerable initiative and risk; they represent the ideas, innovation and talent in society. There is also a significant role that entrepreneurs can...
Entrepreneurship in India
India, perhaps, is one of the few civilizations –if any – which has survived the test of time. India is perceived differently by different on-lookers, as its consistently jostling between contradictions. There are few who...
Raising money isn’t everything
We all hear about Angels, VCs, IPOs and millions of dollars being pumped into startups, most of whom barely have a product ready. But what about companies that aren’t lucky enough to get that kind of money? According to Guy...
A hotbed of innovation: What’s new at Carnegie Mellon
Carnegie Mellon is a hotbed of innovation and entrepreneurship. At CMU, students and faculty are inspired to create technologies that will change the world. From dorm rooms to laboratories, from business to computer science, from...
America Invents Act: helping or hurting entrepreneurs?
The key question behind the seismic changes coming in US patent law as a result of the America Invents Act (AIA) is whether these are good changes for stimulating entrepreneurship? The key objectives that drove the AIA are: to...
Four Entrepreneurs: One Story; Immigrant-Owned Businesses Strengthen the Economy
What do the son of an Indian diplomat, a formerly undocumented Salvadoran, a former Chinese warehouse worker and an Iraqi refugee have in common? They are all successful entrepreneurs who created businesses in the United States....
Can the NSF I-Corps turn great science into startups?
Creating great startups from great science from our leading research universities. Turning scientists into entrepreneurs. Making America more competitive. Nothing less is the target for the new National Science Foundation’s...
Two by Two: Founder Couples as Partners
People talk about startup co-founders as like being in a marriage. Some really are – married that is. Last week I facilitated a panel on founder couples at Google headquarters in Mountain View for Carnegie Mellon Bay Area alumni....
No time off for busy parent entrepreneurs
Solve a problem that you have. That’s usually good advice to first-time entrepreneurs. And that’s exactly what Angela Conley and Chaz Giles did – they founded MomTrusted because THEY NEEDED CHILDCARE! With two young children, the...