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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Salyer made the decision to take her community service commitment to a new level in November 2008 when she successfully ran for the Ward 6 City Council seat. She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world.

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Survivors

Both Sides of the Table

I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010. And it’s what I believe sets apart the tech startup culture more than any other sector out there. She said that Korea really wants to build a “creative economy” and that understanding why the US is so innovative was important to her. I look for survivors.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

He penned a great piece on the LA tech community here in Forbes. We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here. Not bad, hey? Both companies were in Los Angeles.

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Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

2003 / Great service really does win business. Bonus lesson: Mistakes are the fertile ground of innovation! It shows up everywhere: how you greet people in your office , how your website looks, how your physical office looks, and even how you and your employees show up in the community. What would our culture look like?

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A look at six new funds begs the question: Is a slowdown really coming?

TechCrunch

Whether we will see as dramatic a correction in the next few years as we did in 2001 to 2003, however, is anyone’s guess.”. “If We see the acceleration of females building businesses, and a lot is going on in innovation, so we want to bring more capital into that.”. Image Credits: Emmeline Ventures.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. While that happens sometimes, it was a challenge for Google because it frequently had trouble adapting from an engineering driven culture.