Mitch Kapor, president of Kapor Enterprises, shares his views on the cultural challenges facing Microsoft in its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. He also discusses Google's involvement in the proposed deal, and how Facebook fits into the technology landscape.
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In this Super Techies interview, software veteran Mitch Kapor talks with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his career as a tech entrepreneur. Kapor discusses his early work at Lotus Development, creating the most ubiquitous business tool of its time; sparring with tech titans Bill Gates and ...
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What is the role of company culture in the success of a start-up? I know it’s a generic question but what is your personal philosophy about that? I want them to hear that. Well, I think by enlarge pretty much all of the most successful tech companies, by most successful I mean over a l...
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Mitch Kapor has been an entrepreneur since the 1980’s, and here he pinpoints useful websites, educational programs, and learning opportunities that help level the playing field between seasoned venture capitalist and the first-time business operator.
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One thing that’s different then and now of course is, as an entrepreneur there are many more sources of capital. In many cases actually possible to self-finance. It's so inexpensive. Even if you're not wealthy you can get going. Another thing is all of angel money that is around of entrepreneurs...
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Talent is harder because of the great talent vacuum cleaner that’s Google and talent vacuum cleaner that's Facebook. And what I've seen successful companies do now, they do a couple of things. One, even if they're based in the valley, they say "We're going to do distributed development ...
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The barriers to entry for start-ups are enormously lower than they were a generation ago. It means there can be much more competition. Another thing that’s enormously different is when you do a consumer phasing internet service, you get immediate feedback from people. You can tell what ...
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And so the search part of that, what is it like starting a company that’s kind of trying to compete with big giants such as Google. Competing with big giants is a bad idea and should be avoided. I mean the problem for a little start-up whether you're doing this in the 80's or 90's in wh...
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If you take social responsibility, seriously you have to built it in from the outside. It’s kind of flavor of the month right now. And if you try to layer social responsibility like icing onto a cake in the business, that's not very interesting. And there's a lot of that going on. But I...
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Given all you’ve seen over the years, how do you pick an investor? Well, I think you actually pick an investor the same way you would pick like a co-founder or other senior people on the team. They obviously have to have the right skills set. People shouldn't be getting in the door if ...
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Any suggestions on how to level the "playing fields" between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and other investors. So the phenomenon you’re referring to, just to be clear, is there can be great information asymmetries between what an investor who's done several dozen deals knows an...
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Arabic subtitled version of this program. The conclusion of the sixth annual Computer Bowl trivia game between high tech types from the east coast and the west coast. This was the All Star edition with MVPs selected from the first five Computer Bowl games. Contestants included Bill Gates, Bill J...
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