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Archive for October, 2006



Chris Knudsen on Grapevine Radio

Published on October 9, 2006

I’m scheduled to make a live appearance on Grapevine Radio on October 10th. If you’d like to tune in and listen go to grapevine radio and click on the microphone at 1 pm tomorrow. I’ll be discussing issues covered in my recent article in Connect Magazine. The show has 129,000 listeners so I’m a little [...]


What the…Holy Crap! YouTube Love Goes Silly!

Published on October 6, 2006

Rumor has it YouTube is in buyout talks with Google. I like it. But for $1.7 BILLION?!?! Yes, billion with a “B”!
Trip Chowdhry, an “analyst” with some Bay Area equity research firm, thinks YouTube has the same brand identity as Google and Coke. Is she smoking crack? If that’s the case then Google would be getting one [...]


Rocky Mountain Voices/PodTech Wrap Up

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I had a great time at the RMV/PodTech meet up last tonight. What a great event. Congratulations to the RMV team for pulling off such as great show.
I love to hear stories from successful entrepreneurs like John Furrier. He has done an amazing job with PodTech. Just the fact that he was able to get [...]


John Furrier And The Rocky Mountain Voices Meet Up Tonight In SLC

Published on October 5, 2006

John Furrier, CEO of PodTech.net will be headlining the Rocky Mountain Voices meet up tonight in Salt Lake City. Lots of great people will be there mixing and mingling. Check out the details at Rocky Mountain Voice. You need to RSVP to get in.
Best of luck to the RMV team on this event. I’m sure its going to [...]


China Has More Honors Students Than We Have Students (and other interesting facts)

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I blogged last week about jobs growth in the US and where we seem to be going as a society. As a follow up to that, take a look at these facts pulled together by a friend, Brett Zabel, at Wasatch High School. It really puts a lot into perspective…

If you are one in a million in [...]


Robert Scoble on Podango

Published on October 4, 2006

Check out Robert Scoble’s blog post on the Podango unconference.
Awesome!


On Negotiation

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I was teaching my students about the power of being a good negotiator the other night and I thought I’d share some tips here. I generally do not share my advice on negotiation because I don’t want to give anything away that may help a potential opponent. However, I’m getting soft in my old age so I’ve [...]


Ryan Money Taught My Class Last Night

Published on October 3, 2006

I had my friend and former student, Ryan Money, CEO of Hirevue, come in and speak to my class on the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. Ryan did a great job and left the class with a lot of knowledge. Here are a couple of take aways:

If you want to be an entrepreneur to make money its a [...]


Mountainpalooza This Friday!

Published on October 2, 2006

We’ll be doing the Mountainpalooza thing again this Friday at 2 pm at Sundance. This has been a great summer - let’s top it off with a hard core ride - one for the books.
All are invited so I hope to see you there!
If you need details, please click here or shoot me an email or [...]


I Choose to Frame Instead of Dream

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When I was 15 years old my dad started a construction company. At the time, Oregon was going through a real estate boom and business was good. My dad put me on a framing crew with some rough dudes. They gave me all the bad jobs. At one point, I was up to my knees in mud [...]




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