Biotech incubator QB3 transforming research into new ventures

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Douglas Crawford, Ph. D., Associate Director of QB3 and Managing Director of Mission Bay Capital discusses the role of the State of California’s Governor Gray Davis Institutes for Science and Innovations’ role in transferring academic research into viable startup ventures. QB3, The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences is one of the four institutes and is a conduit for the University of California’s UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco and UC Santa Cruz’s biosciences departments.

Learn how PH. D.’s in bioscience are forming venture backed startups on their own or in a partnership with other tech and business entrepreneurs. Hear about the many programs and opportunities open to all entrepreneurs at QB3.

For more information on QB3 and Mission Bay Capital follow these links:
QB3
Mission Bay Capital

For information on the other Institutes for Science and Innovation follow this link:
The Governor Gray Davis Institute for Science and Innovation

The Free COO airs Thursdays at 4:00pm Pacific Time on Spreaker.

MailUp.com CEO Massimo Arrigoni talks about his career

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Massimo Arrigoni is CEO of MailUp.com an email service provider. He is a serial entrepreneur who’s has been through the ups and down of building and running a new venture. From his start as a immigrant to the US and landing a job with a .com startup that went through a boom and bust, to his first successful venture Product Cart (formerly Early Impact) and ultimately, to MailUp, hear how Massimo has navigated the course of being and entrepreneur.

Massimo is also on the board of two organizations helping other entrepreneurs BAIA and MindTheBridge.

If you like this interview, join me on Thursdays at 4:00pm Pacific Time on The Free COO

Hot Topic Media’s Gady Costeff on Entrepreneurship

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Gady Costeff is CEO of Hot Topic Media and an expert at online marketing. Starting in the Dot Com era, Gady has been at the forefront of building high volume web properties and high performing teams.

Learn abut Gady’s background and his favorite avocation being a chess composer.

Here is a link to some of Hot Topic Media’s websites:

www.catchhimandkeephim.com

Len Lodish discusses how Diapers.com went from zero to $545M

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Len Lodish, Vice Dean, Program for Social Impact and Samuel R. Harrell Professor in the Marketing department of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania was my guest on The Free COO radio show on May 3, 2012.

Two of Len’s students from Wharton San Francisco’s MBA for Executives program founded Diapers.com while in school. Len was an investor and on Diaper.com’s Board of Directors. He discusses how the company went from a startup to its acquisition by Amazon.com for $545MM in just five years. Here how Diaper.com started in a garage, sourcing supplies from Costco in order to test their theory and market potential. Then learn how their customer service totally delights their customers.

Dr. Lodish also helped two other students get www.milo.com off the ground and sold to eBay.com in less than three years.

In this amazing interview we’ll explore Len’s career, his courses at Wharton, his own fantastically successful startups, his Global Consulting Practicum and how he and his wife complete a 1,000km unassisted tandem bike ride somewhere in the world each year to raise funds for the ALS Association of Philadelphia.

You’ve got to hear this interview end to end.

For more information about Len or to contribute to his annual 1,000K fund raiser visit these links:

Wharton MBA for Executives

Len Lodish’s profile

The Free COO airs Thursdays on Speaker.com. You can also hear replays on Facebook and iTunes.

Vish Mishra of TiE and Clearstone Ventures talks about his career

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Hear this great interview where Vish Mishra of TiE and Clearstone Ventures talks about his career. Starting as an immigrant from India, Mr. Mishra became a serial entrepreneur and founder of companies such as Excelan and Telera. Excelan went to an IPO and was purchased by Novell and Telera was purchase by Alcatel.

Today Vish is a Venture Director at Clearstone Venture Partners and is also a Charter Member and President of TiE Silicon Valley (the Indus Entrepreneurs).

Vish offers tons of great advice for aspiring entrepreneurs from how to chose a product to how to create an executive summary that can be presented to venture capitalists.

You can find out more about Vish at:
TiE Silicon Valley – sv.tie.org/
Clearstone Venture Partners – www.clearstone.com

The Free COO airs on Thursdays at 4:00pm Pacific Time on www.Spreaker.com.

Chad Lynch – networking maestro of Orrick Total Access

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Chad Lynch is the Director of Corporate Business Development at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. In our interview on August 12, 2012, Chad discusses how he developed his Total Access program at Orrick. Total Access is a series of workshops, panel discussions and networking events that take place on weekday mornings in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Chad is an important figure in the Silicon Valley and has brought together some of the brightest and most successful people in the history of the Bay Area to share their insights and knowledge with other entrepreneurs.

Chad is an entrepreneur himself and talks about his career and why he chose the law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe to be his home for his outstanding programs.

For more information about Chad and Orrick’s Total Access program follow these links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orricktotalaccess
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/OrrickTotalAccess
Blog: http://orricktotalaccess.wordpress.com/

Additionally, you can find most of the links on Orrick’s website at www.orrick.com/totalaccess.

Nataliya Anon discusses outsourcing IT to Ukraine

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If your company is thinking of outsourcing software and IT work then consider the Ukrainian talent of US based Svitla Systems, Inc. Svitla’s founder and CEO, Nataliya Anon talks about the pros and cons of outsourcing, her career as a serial entrepreneur and everything you’ll need to know about choosing and working with an foreign outsource service provider.

I have worked with Nataliya for almost five years as of the time of this post and can attest to the fantastic team she has assembled.

RC Williams business development and radio pro on the hot seat

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We finally had a chance to interview my friend and co-host RC Williams on the Free COO. Listen in to a replay of the broadcast here. You’ll also hear my weekly operational tip which focuses this time on gathering intelligence and market information for your startup by seeking out published research papers.

RC Williams is a long time radio veteran and is currently doing business development work for Spreaker.com. You’ll hear about his outstanding career and tips for building and promoting your company.

Join us live every Thursday at 4:00pm Pacific Time on The Free COO on Spreaker.

Learn how a PEO can help your startup

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Rita DeStaso of Trinet shared some great advice about why your startup should seriously consider using a PEO.

As I mentioned in my article about setting up HR, using a PEO could save you thousands of dollars now and well into the future by getting your HR function right. Think of it as an insurance policy that’s just as important as general liability or E&O.

The Free COO airs Thursdays at 4:00 pm Pacific Time, only on www.spreaker.com

ScanCafe co-founder Sam Allen shares his success story

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From dedicated Marine Corp veteran to the Co-Founder of the highly successful Scan Cafe, Sam Allen shares his story of bravery and entrepreneurship on the Free COO radio program.

In this lively and funny conversation, Sam talks about how he moved a 12 year military career, to becoming an mergers and acquisitions specialist for Cisco Systems and on to the MBA program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he and some fellow classmates decided to form and internet startup. Fast forward to today and ScanCafe has almost 1,000 employees and is the leading provider of digital scanning services on the Web.

Join us each Thursday at 4:00pm PDT to learn how you can make the next great start up company. Only on Spreaker