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Entrepreneurship through acquisition is gaining popularity and provides a compelling business case for new and experienced entrepreneurs. In recent years the practice of buying and operating small businesses as an entry into entrepreneurship has gained popularity, as well as generated significant capital gains for those who practice it. Even institutional investors have started to recognize … Continue reading Episode 74: Buy Vs. Build →

Less than 1% of the earth’s water is potable and suitable for our survival. Today, we are using up those resources faster than they are naturally replenished. By the year 2050 we will see the world population grow by 50%. Compound that growth with increased standards of living and increased per capita usage and there … Continue reading Episode 73: Changing the Conservation Conversation! →

Border Wars: From Mayhem to Mindfulness ​Nicholas Stein, the Series Producer of National Geographic Television’s series, “Border Wars,” can attest to the impact of human misery. Stein chronicled the unspeakable suffering of illegal migrants, coerced drug smugglers, violent crime victims and burnt out federal law enforcement officers. Over time, the combat-related stress of shooting “Border … Continue reading Episode 72: From Mayhem to Mindfulness →

So you want to break into cyber sales? You think you can sell anything? People in your life tell you that your personable, likable, even competent? It takes a bit more to break in, takes a lot more to stay and grow. The cyber security industry is growing at an exponential rate. The demand for … Continue reading Episode 71: “You call yourself a salesman?” →

Erin was a Dragon Mission Director for SpaceX. Then she took off around the world for a year, had a baby, and started her own business. What did she learn from her years working for Elon Musk? How did she take the leap from stable corporate employment to being self-employed and mobile? And where is … Continue reading Episode 70: Space to Startup →

Embark Ventures is a pre-seed and seed stage fund focused on “deep tech” – companies with proprietary and highly defensible technology that is a strong competitive barrier. Particularly interested in cyber-security, robotics, advanced manufacturing, materials, and bio/med tech but open to other opportunities that have a highly technical/proprietary core. We invest early (generally first institutional … Continue reading Episode 69: Raising VC for “Deep Tech” Startups in Southern California →

If you have ambitions to create a company, but scared because someone said that hardware is hard, allow me to prove to you otherwise. Pretty much everyone funds hardware and it can be bootstrapped. There are a lot of ways to get off the ground and I am more than happy to debunk the myths. … Continue reading Episode 68: Lies and Hardware Startups →

Jeff began his career at IBM. After 3 uneventful years, he moved to Google to help launch the Google Apps (now GSuite) business. After running the Education team for 4 years and growing the business to 70% market share, he transitioned to help launch the Chromebook product line and drove the go-to-market strategy. But 6 … Continue reading Episode 67: From Intrapreneur to Entrepreneur →

People often dream of moving on from their corporate job to start their own “thing”. This often includes the hope that they can do something better for the world then what they are doing for the corporation. We will cover the good, bad and ugh-ly of making the transition from the corporate world to making … Continue reading Episode 66: Ghosted →

Until recently, augmented reality has been the stuff of science fiction. In 1956, Philip K. Dick’s “The Minority Report” predicted the coming of AR as literally being able to have information at your fingertips. Like Dick’s AR display, the 1977 hologram image of Princess Leia in Star Wars is now a reality. That said, the … Continue reading Episode 65: The Future of Augmented Reality →