Jeff Fluhr and his friend from school got together and created a company called StubHub which they built up and sold to eBay. But, you know, I think it wasn't until after my first real company StubHub that people, I think, thought of me in that light. So I contacted the owner of the company and proposed to him that I be a distribution outlet for their product in retail channels outside of the Massachusetts area and began to help that company get In 2000, people had all kinds of assumptions about buying and selling tickets to events. They assumed it was illegal or

Back in the dot-com days, competitive advantage was largely based on technology development.  For Just ask the founder of TWPLY (a Twitter app) who built and sold his company in 24 hours! Technology remains a competitive advantage in many areas: life science, nanotech, renewable energy.  Many Is your business’s success going to be based on execution or technology?  Or Or is it something in between?

To all the people who whined that Twiistup’s startup competition was unfair, here’s my answer: All startup competitions are biased. I’ll teach you what I learned so you can use it to win other startup competitions. It’s easy to say there’s a little unfairness in these You’re right. Now stop whining and learn to win.

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in... Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010

Competitiveness - One attribute that I believe most VCs look for in entrepreneurs is competitiveness.  I If you stumble on to a really good idea believe me it will get competitive really quickly.  It know that people who aren’t competitive always find competitive people slightly distasteful.  They This is part of my series on  what makes an entrepreneur successful .  I originally posted it on  VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs.

We're in the crapper. BUT there are thousands and thousands ( OCTANe knows of over 400 ) high paying, high innovation jobs that go unfulfilled and Biomedical, IT and Clean Tech companies are yearning and competing for talent. but I digress. Are we positioning our workforce to be aligned with our future competitive growth industries? Was at a great program last week about the "War for Talent" ... the same day the March unemployment figures came out and the US lost about 80,000 jobs in March, to run the total job loses this year to 230,000 and the unemployment to go

The company said the United States District Court for the Southern District of California has granted the firm's motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit from Christopher Lorenzo, which had claimed antitrust violations and unfair competition by the company. According to Qualcomm, the judge found that the allegations in the compliant did not give Lorenzo any right to compensation from the firm under California's unfair competition law. San Diego-based Qualcomm said this morning that the firm has been granted a motion to dismiss a consumer, class action lawsuit against the firm.

Monday, August 17, 2009 -- CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ASCENT is a statewide business competition for entrepreneurial growth companies produced by the Golden Capital Network and officially endorsed by the State of California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. See [link] (mor

Taking a page from the X Prize Foundation, NASA has launched its own prize competition which challenges companies to create aircraft that can average at least 100 mph on a 200-mile flight, while getting greater than 200 passenger miles-per-gallon. The X Prize Foundation is running its own, fuel efficient vehicle competition--but for automobiles, through the Progressive Automotive X Prize. NASA said it would award $1.5M to the best performance, and $150,000 to the best aircraft fueled by bio-fuel.

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. I used an image from Roger Smith that describes the varying roles of a CTO as the company matures. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be. I recently read a post that called this a Consulting CTO and suggested: Founders of In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up . Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup,