Michael Eagar | Internet Entrepreneur

We have confirmed a date for the Kauffman FastTrac® High Tech Venture™ Training Course. The course will begin on May 20, 2008. I am very excited for this entrepreneur training course for those starting a high tech business. Here are some details from the Orem Utah SBDC (Small Business Development Center):
This course [...]

I recently said to one of the Internet companies that I consult “Just Build the Prototype!” It was a classic scenario, the entrepreneur/engineer has the perfect product idea, they keep it close and secret for many years, it has been worked on and worked on to near perfection, but it is not perfect yet, [...]

I recently read a good article on Google and Nine Factors of Innovation from BusinessWeek June 19th 2006.  The article talked a lot about Innovation (about time, I predicted this would be the word of the year in the business world in a previous blog).  BusinessWeek devoted a lot of this issue to innovation (more [...]

Great discussions today with a Funding Panel at UVEF June 8 2006.  Panel members included Mike Hennessy of Wasatch Venture Fund, Damon Kirchmeier of UTFC, Curtis Toone of Sorenson Capital, Tim Hunt of LingoTek, and Kevin Nethercott from lignup.  Here are some take aways:

Funding Factors

A lot of it has to do with timing, just cause [...]

I have been reading lately on the word of the year - Innovation - The New Core Competency. This has been the main focus at many world business conferences, and also featured articles in Inc., BusinessWeek, and Fortune.
Knowledge used to be the core competency, but knowhow like software creation, programming, accounting, legal work, engineering [...]