Adam Chavez

Happy Thanksgiving everybody.
I created this list of all the BYU startups by current students.
Take a look at the list and let me know which ones I missed (I know there are tons out there).

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Per the recommendation of John Richards I started reading Good to Great by Jim Collins. Wow. What a book! It’s filled with 5 years (over 11 man years of research). 11 man-years sounds a little funny. But to explain, if you had 2 people work 40 hours that’d be 80 man-hours. So 11 man-years is [...]

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I like reading Godin’s ideas because he always seems to word things uniquely enough to make old ideas seem new.
This article is called How to Make Money Online.

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This is gearing up to be an exciting week for BYU entrepreneurship. Check out the events below!
Entrepreneurs Anonymous This is a think-tank event where participants are separated into groups of students with diverse backgrounds and talents. You will be given the opportunity to briefly pitch to the group about yourself and your business idea [...]

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Three things determine where you will end up in life, in business, and at home. They do not include luck, technology, contacts, or insider information, although all of those things can be added pushes along the way.
The first is what you are focusing on, what you desire, what you want deep down.
The second is what [...]

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If you’ve thought about doing a web startup but didn’t know where to start, this meeting is for you. Come check out the Web Startup Group.
Date: 13 November, 2008 (Thursday) at 7:00PM in 254 TMCBWelcome:  Matt Smith (3 min)

Schedule FastPitches and BizTechs for December from audience

BizTech: (15 min each, 30 minutes)

Google Android — Sam Curren
Jump [...]

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So I’ve got a bit of a problem.
I’m only one person.
I only sit in class with 40 other people.
I’m in the Marriott School, where only a fraction of BYU’s population attends.
And I’m trying to meet web/tech entrepreneurs from all over campus so that I can introduce them to angel investors, service providers, and potential co-founders.
In [...]

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The best way for the economy to be helped is for entrepreneurs like you to take calculated risks and build new companies. 80% of new jobs come from startups, and the industries of tomorrow are built by the startups of today.
For a new book that is meant to inspire others to take entrepreneurial action and [...]

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GarbGameDayWear.com started out simply enough. Steven Rosenbeck, the Founder and CEO (and future winner of the BYU Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award - 2008 see photos), had just returned from a 2-year long service and teaching mission in the Phillippine islands.
He had envisioned a plan to manufacture uniforms on the islands, then sell them [...]

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A conversation I had with a friend the other day…
Me: I read this morning about a device they’ve created at a big university [University of Washington (UW) and the Washington National Primate Research Center] that allows a monkey who’s paralyzed to control his own wrist by taking brain signals into a computer and then the [...]

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