Science to Profits
About this original series
This series of videos is about creating profitable businesses from technological innovation and scientific advances.
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# Episodes
7 episodes -
Rating
TV-G
Episodes of Science to Profits
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Lessons from Silicon Valley
In July 2005, TangibleFuture, Inc. and Astecs arranged for a team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, investors and professional service providers to speak to entrepreneurs in five cities in Mexico. The goal was to share with Mexican entrepreneurs how Silicon Valley approaches turning technology into profitable businesses. This is the introduction to the faculty and the first talk, given by Richard Caro, on Applied Entrepreneuring. Learn more: http://www.tangiblefuture.com/SiliconValleyLessons.html
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Release date
Nov 29, 2010
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Runtime
35:22
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Value milestones: new ventures
Richard Caro describes key, value creating milestones for a new high tech. venture, and an approach to systematically creating value in a startup. This episode is a segment of a live recording of a workshop by Richard Caro, originally given to a group of life sciences entrepreneurs in Mexico City.
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Release date
Nov 10, 2008
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Runtime
13:12
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10 Reasons Startups Fail
Entrepreneurs seem all too frequently to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. This episode describes 10 of the most common errors we see startups make. They are all avoidable. This episode is a segment of a live recording of a workshop by Richard Caro, originally given to a group of life sciences entrepreneurs in Mexico City.
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Release date
Oct 27, 2008
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Runtime
24:44
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Startup cashflow fingerprint
The "cashflow fingerprint" is a simple way to visualize the financial potential of a new venture, as well as its cash needs, and provides an essential tool for planning how to finance a new high tech. business. This episode is a segment of a live recording of a workshop by Richard Caro, originally given to a group of entrepreneurs in Mexico City.
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Release date
Oct 8, 2008
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Runtime
04:37
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Business Concept Ingredients
Thinking through the details of the business concept for a new venture gets inadequate attention way too often, and is one of the most common causes of failure among high tech startups we meet. This episode describes the important ingredients of "the business concept", and what to focus on to make sure you have a good one. This episode is a segment of a live lecture by Richard Caro, originally given to a group of life sciences entrepreneurs in Mexico City.
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Release date
Sep 24, 2008
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Runtime
08:04
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Competing Innovation Ecosystems
There seem to be two quite different approaches to encouraging innovation, found in different parts of the world. Which is better? Listen and decide. This episode is a segment of a live lecture by Richard Caro, originally given to a group of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.
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Release date
Sep 24, 2008
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Runtime
07:25
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Innovation Ecosystem Audit
To increase the level of innovation in an economy it helps to have a model of how the innovation ecosystem works, and to be able to diagnose where the problems are, before designing policy interventions.More innovation in an economy can result in faster growth and increased social mobility. So encouraging innovation is a hot topic. In this live recording of a keynote lecture, Dr. Richard Caro describes a model of the Innovation Ecosystem and discusses an approach to auditing it for a specific ...
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Release date
Jul 22, 2008
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Runtime
25:04
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