Adam Chavez

A funny, yet spot-on write-up by Kawasaki.
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With all the raw data that’s available in the public domain, there should be more / better ways to access the information. My friend Sebastian expressed his frustration with current options, “When I was writing a research paper where I had to do ‘methodological statistical analysis’ on big batches of government data I literally had [...]

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Devlin Daley and Brian Whitmer seem to have hit a vein; local investors agree, and have funded Instructure.com to the tune of $50,000. This will take them through 1 year from now, and into near-complete product development and launch. The team has a meeting with several venture capital firms (vSpring among them) this week, so [...]

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The best and brightest minds in the country have been investing their human capital into financial services because that’s where the big money has been for so long. People that would have been innovating in industries like technology, life sciences, and energy have not been. And that could all change now.
Year-to-date, over 100,000 jobs in [...]

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AllTop.com is a new site from Guy Kawasaki, the well-liked venture capitalist and author.
Inspired by PopURLS, the site takes the RSS know-how out of the aggregation of high-quality content from the web (Translation: You don’t have to be tech-savvy because there’s no setup). Let’s say that you’re interested in startups and venture capital and you [...]

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EnticeLabs is a cool startup based right here in Provo.
Stephen Liddle is their CTO. Liddle is the iconic Silicon Valley geek (Professor Liddle, if you’re reading this, you know I mean that with respect and admiration — In my book, geeky is good) who started programming at home (in San Jose I believe) right [...]

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A small recording device records your daily conversations. Software takes the conversations, knows which words came from you, and analyzes them. It also divides them up by topic and by conversation, “The conversation that you had at 10:53 am that lasted for 15 mintues,” etc.
At the end of the day, you access and search through [...]

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“A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one’s own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.”
Chin-Ning Chu
My passion is creating value for others. A quick story to illustrate.
I was 21, had just returned from a 2-year service and teaching mission. I didn’t have a whole lot to do yet, [...]

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Some tech-based companies get wrapped up in engineering. Engineering is great, and in order for a tech-based startup to be successful in the long term, the core engineering team must be excellent because the technology has to work properly - there’s no way around that.
But in the short-term, and I mean even before your prototype [...]

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Perhaps 10,000 is too high a number, maybe your idea will not produce a massive, Google-like company. Perhaps it’s 100, or 50. Maybe it’s a 2 or 3 thousand.
But as an entrepreneur, if you create a company and you are guided by correct principles, you can potentially lift hundreds or thousands of people. You can [...]

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