In this video, Nvidia CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang does a fireside chat with Tim Bajarin from Creative Strategies. They discuss trends in mobile, visual and parallel computing, and the transformational changes ahead for the industry. Recorded at the 2012 Emerging Companies Summit in San Jose.
Video: Fireside Chat from Emerging Companies Summit
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How to Build a Community of Entrepreneurs
In this video, Angel Investor and author Bob Gilbreath discusses how to build a community of entrepreneurs.
Startups Powered by GPUs
Gary Rainville writes that the GTC Emerging Companies Summit this week showcased nearly three dozen startups from around the world using GPUs to disrupt markets and delight customers. After a day of machine-gun style back-to-back mini-presentations, the event was capped by the announcement of five “One to Watch” awards. Winners raked in more than $20,000 in prizes each.
The companies shared a resolve to solve hard problems with sophisticated offerings, in many cases with NVIDIA GPUs. Winners included:
- Elemental Technologies, which provides processing technology that uses GPUs to quickly optimize video and stream it over IP networks
- Numira Biosciences, which is working to accelerate the drug development pipeline for pharmaceutical companies by shortening compound discovery and pre-clinical testing processes
- Splashtop, which is a provider of a highly rated remote desktop app that streams a PC or Mac to a smartphone with smooth, high-resolution video and audio.
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Video: Who’s Funding Startups
In this video, Deven Parekh from Insight Venture Partners describes the state of the venture capital industry.
Turning Entrepreneurship into a Science
Max Marmer from the Startup Genome writes about turning entrepreneurship into a science. If successful, it’s hard to imagine the type of impact this could have.
Most founders don’t know what they should be focusing on and consequently dilute their focus or run in the wrong direction. They are regularly bombarded with advice that seems contradictory, which is often paralyzing. And while startups are now gathering way more qualitative and quantitative feedback than they were just a few years ago, their ability to interpret this data and use it to make better product and business decisions is sorely lacking. The primary cause of these problems is that we lack the necessary structure to synthesize our accumulated knowledge on the nature of startups. We are missing a common language and framework to describe and measure entrepreneurship and innovation.
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Video: Bounce Back from Failures to Achieve Success
In this video, Rebounders author Rick Newman on how to bounce back from failure to achieve success.
Video: Top Ten Tips for Starting a Company
In this video, Josh Baer from the Capital Factory incubator in Austin describes his top-ten tips for starting a company at the Project Olympus Show.
Take a Cruise with an Incubator at Sea
Imagine a cruise that takes your Startup to test international markets. That’s the idea behind Unreasonable at Sea.
Unreasonable at Sea is an accelerator program for entrepreneurs who desire to take their ventures into new international markets. We are working exclusively with technology based companies. Why Unreasonable? We only accept ventures who are working to solve the greatest social and environmental challenges of this century.
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Shot Selection a Critical Skill for Entrepreneurs
Jeff MIller of Punchfork writes that “shot selection” is choosing what to focus on at the expense of other forgone opportunities.
TechCrunch can be a good way to gain visibility among investors and the tech community in general, but in my experience, it didn’t have value beyond that. (Perhaps some SEO value.) I regret I expended so much mental energy figuring out how to get my startup covered on TC. When I finally did make it onto TechCrunch, both the article itself and the resulting traffic were very underwhelming. I should have concentrated on other outlets that are less tech-centric and more suited to my site’s audience—for example, LifeHacker and kottke.org, which ended up yielding 100x as many signups as TC.
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Interview: Grant Cardone on the 10x Rule of Success
In this video, Grant Cardone discusses the principles of Sales Success in his book entitled: The 10x Rule.
The 10X Rule unveils the principle of “Massive Action,” allowing you to blast through business cliches and risk-aversion while taking concrete steps to reach your dreams. It also demonstrates why people get stuck in the first three actions and how to move into making the 10X Rule a discipline. Find out exactly where to start, what to do, and how to follow up each action you take with more action to achieve 10x the money, 10x your goals, 10x the happiness, and 10x your possibilities with Grant’s latest book, The 10X Rule.”
Winning Investor Pitches
Dave Lavinsky from Growthink writes that respect for investor’s time is the key to a winning pitch.
Pitch a strike. Within the first 30 seconds, investors need to understand precisely what your business does and why it’s a good opportunity for them. If they don’t get it, they’ll lose interest or they’ll interrupt you with adversarial questions. If they like what you’re saying, they’ll let you keep talking.
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Belly Startup Gets Bigger with $10 Million from Horowitz
Jennifer Van Grove from Venture Beat writes that digital loyalty Startup Belly has landed a $10 million round of funding from rapidly-rising Valley heavyweight Andreessen Horowitz.
Belly is the maker of a small business- and consumer-friendly rewards system and universal loyalty card. For a monthly subscription fee, the Chicago-based startup tailors programs around store culture to create rewards. To simplify management, it issues each location an in-store iPad display. Customers can use their Belly card or the Belly mobile app to “scan-in” to locations, earn points for each visit, and view rewards. The rewards can sometimes be a bit unusual. For instance, at AllyCat Comics, the Chicago comic store where Belly got its start last August, a Belly customer who makes 50 purchases earns the opportunity to punch the owner in the gut.
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