We recently interviewed Kevin Farrar, who leads IBM's Global Entrepreneur program. This IBM initiative seeks to partner with technology entrepreneurs interested in delivering solutions address issues enterprise customers are facing in the areas of banking, buildings, cities, cloud computing, education, energy, food, government, healthcare, infrastructure, intelligence, oil, products, public safety, rail, retail, stimulus, telecommunications, traffic, water, and work . . .
If my ideas are the key selling point for my business, how do I pitch for customers/investors without giving away the crown jewels? Should I be making sure I’m only pitching what I can already deliver so time-to-market becomes a feature, or would you suggest another approach? Should I instead focus on exclusivity (partnering with one or two companies that have the most to gain), and treat myself as an arms dealer in a technical arms race? Or would you...
Doug Richard addresses the fundamental issues of starting-up and running a business.
MADE IN 48 Hours is a unique boot camp that aims to unlock the potential of a digitally enabled business with hands on help and teaching. At the close of this event, run by School for Startups, all delegates should leave with a transformed business and their expectations awakened. The course takes place in Sheffield between 10th – 11th September 2010 at Sheffield Hallam University.
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...Click here to listen to Doug Richard commentating on the recently announced emergency budget.
Doug starts from around 01:40
...One of the joys of living in the US is the sheer convenience of it all. Sometimes that convenience is so much a part of the American experience that it only becomes obvious in its absence. Let me explain by example.
Part of my morning ritual for most of my adult life has been to have a cup of coffee and read the morning paper. Living in West Hollywood for 20 years I would greet each day with a large hot...
