Tag Archives: Visionary

We Need Entrepreneurs Who Can Drive Global Change

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By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet...
    






Hand of God Exploding Star Leads to Speculation

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While it looks exactly like an x-ray of a hand, the fact that it is a picture of an object in the far recesses of space is a source of great surprise. Mankind has always kept stargazing and his...
    






Can An Uber Investor Bring Silicon Valley Disruption To Healthcare?

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Several tweets today from Benchmark Capital partner Bill Gurley suggests that the legendary VC firm – famous for their backing of eBay, Uber, OpenTable, and Yelp, among others – may be preparing to...
    






Former Northrop CEO Thomas Jones dies at 93

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Thomas Jones, 30-year CEO of Northrop who led company to top, dies at 93 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thomas V. Jones, who was Northrop Corp.'s chief executive officer for 30 years and took it to...
    






Bezos Health Scare Draws Traders’ Attention to Amazon Succession Plan

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When a kidney stone dropped into Jeff Bezos’s ureter while he was touring the Galapagos Islands by boat on New Year’s Day, his discomfort triggered an emergency airlift from the bay where he was...
    






Beware of "Story Stocks"

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Whatever you might think of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) you certainly can’t avoid it if you scan any financial news. Taking a look just at Yahoo Finance! (NASDAQ:YHOO) headlines, a new story about the...
    






5 New Years resolutions from a startup investor

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My recent post, Why Your Startup is Going to Fail, took aim at entrepreneurs. Raising money for a new business and then building out a lasting enterprise is extremely hard. The gruelling...
    






Steve Case: Why Entrepreneurs Will Rebuild The Economy

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I recently spoke to Steve Case, who is best known as the Co-Founder of America Online (AOL), which he started in 1985. Case helped AOL become the world’s largest and most valuable Internet company...
    






The Future Of Translational Medicine — Lessons Learned In Therapeutics

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This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this...