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Monday, Jan 11, 2010Entrepreneur’s Journey Revisited
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Keynote Address | Video Highlights| Audiocasts – Full Panel Discussions
Great businesses start not with a great business plan, but with finding a creative innovative idea that solves a great problem. This is the central concept underlying the graduate entrepreneurship program at Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. How then do you navigate from idea to a profitable business that you, your customers, and investors will get passionately behind? Graziadio professors, partnering with The Palmer Center at Pepperdine’s Law School, brought the pieces together in a full-day event for students and alumni on November 6, 2009.
The keynote address by special guest speaker Rodrigo Veloso, founder of O.N.E. World Enterprises, and select video highlights from the day’s program are available for repeat viewing below. Each panel discussion in its entirety is captured here in a series of audiocasts.
Welcome Remarks and Introductions:
Douglas Howe, Practitioner Faculty of Entrepreneurship, opened the event as the day’s master of ceremonies. 2.12 minutes.
John G. Shearer, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, remarks on his role as the school’s technology concierge. 4 minutes.
Bios of Speakers and Participants (PDF)
Opportunities Never End – A Keynote Address
Pepperdine Professor Larry Cox, director of the entrepreneurship program, sets the stage for the day’s agenda and introduces beverage entrepreneur Rodrigo Veloso. Joined by his wife and co-founder Emily Fritz Veloso, MBA ’06, Rodrigo shares his personal journey and challenges developing multiple entrepreneurial ventures and successfully launching O.N.E. World Enterprises. 68 minutes.
Video Highlights
Be A Creative Problem Finder | 3:36
Linda A. Livingstone, Ph.D., Dean, Graziadio School of Business and Management
How do I find the problem I want to solve? | 3:29
Panelists Zubin P. Mehta, Jason McNamara and Jason Nazar
How do entrepreneurs build the right team? | 2:20
Panelists Zubin P. Mehta, Jason McNamara and Jason Nazar
When should entrepreneurs start working on the business plan? | 4:14
Panelists Don Oparah, Robert Aholt, David Block, Kyle C. Murphy
How might MBAs best prepare for entrepreneurship’s legal challenges? | 2:14
Panelists Scott Badenoch and Scott Fennel
When is venture capital appropriate? Where do you find it? | 4:20
Panelists Richard Anderson, Patrick Eggen, Matt Ridenour, and Al Schneider
Audiocasts – Full Panel Discussions
“Great Idea! Now What?” | 64 minutes
Explore the process of new idea generation, new venture creation and the critical steps to transform a great idea into a successful enterprise. Moderator: Professor Larry Cox
Panelists:
- Jason McNamara, Founder, CEO, Peer Investment, Inc.
- Jason Nazar, Co-Founder, CEO, DocStoc.com
- Zubin P. Mehta, President, Global Wave Group
“The Business Plan – Write It for the Right Reasons!” | 55 minutes
Understand the key goals of writing the business plan and how critical components provide your roadmap to wealth creation. Moderator: Professor Douglas Howe
Panelists:
- Robert Aholt, Director, Pasadena Angels
- David Block, Managing Member, Block Capital Partners
- Kyle C. Murphy, President, SwitchStream
- Don Oparah, Founder, CEO, VAI Global, LLC
“The Legal Landscape – Navigating Start-up Issues” | 54 minutes
Choose the appropriate corporate structure, understand proprietary and non-proprietary IP protection and key federal/state regulations you must observe. Moderator: Professor Michael Woronoff, Distinguished Entrepreneur and Lecturer-in-Residence, The Palmer Center, reads a hypothetical case to which the panel responds.
Panelists:
- Scott Badenoch, Co-founder, CEO, CreativeCitizen.com
- Scott W. Fennel, Member, Level 11
- Gia Honnen Weisdorn, Pepperdine University
“Access to Capital: The Investor Perspective”
| 64 minutes
Learn what investors are looking for in today’s challenging new venture climate from experts in Angel and VC funding. Moderator: Professor John G. Shearer
Panelists:
- Richard Anderson, Managing Director, Moss Adams Capital
- Patrick Eggen, Sr. Investment Manager, Qualcomm Ventures
- Matt Ridenour, Partner, Momentum Venture Management
- Al Schneider, President, Tech Coast Angels
Mark Your Calendar
Saturday, March 27, 2010
7th Annual Pepperdine Business Plan Competition
Drescher Graduate Campus, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Four finalists. $26,000 in prizes. $15,000 1st place purse. There can be only one.
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