Michael Goldberg, General Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures and Founder of Axion Inc., discusses his transition from being a venture capitalist to an entrepreneur. He left the venture capital industry to found a company. As a sole founder, he encourages everybody to start a company with at least ...
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What are some of the investments you guys have made that you feel particularly excited about? I think the one that’s probably farthest along is Nanosolar. One of the reasons I bring that up is it has a lot of Stanford students in it, and it has a lot of Stanford intellectual property in it. ...
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Moore delves into the "customer intimacy zone" to explain the innovations that comprise this zone: line extension, enhancement, marketing,and experiential innovations
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Back in 2002 in the lower days of the decline of the tech boom, I started thinking about what was going to be the next area in which technology could really shape a new set of industries. And what I started to look and come and across time and time again was that there was a transition that was ...
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I try to be a student of the game. When I was a student here, I wanted to really learn about the different students I was interacting with. I had friends that were in the medical school, I had friends that were in law school, I had friends in the business school. One of the things I cam...
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In several of the long waves you’re mentioning, not just clean tech but also health and healthcare and biotech, there's a big public policy component that I'd love to get your thoughts on. We don't know yet who is going to be president, but what advice would you have for either candidate with re...
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What are the other long waves that you pay attention to? Obviously, you’re not solely spending 24x7 in just the clean tech area. I think one of the advantages of having a diversified venture firm where we practice across information technology, life science and clean tech, is we're able...
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Hw do you keep up with the current state of research? What do you read? What do you look at? Who do you talk to, to stay up to date on what’s happening? This is a big challenge. Basically, one of the challenges to being an investor in clean tech is knowing what you want to invest in. If you're ...
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Being on the boards of various companies, Goldberg gives his perspective and a sense of the flavor of what happens in board rooms and the roles of different types of boards.
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Moore elaborates on the four different innovation zones: product leadership, operational excellence, customer intimacy and value renewal. These zones make up the market maturity life cycle.
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Moore advises that since innovation begets inertia, there is a need for companies to recycle their resources with respect to both innovation and inertia to differentiate themselves in a competitively driven market.
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