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LAUNCH! celebrates entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship at Pepperdine’s Graziadio School. Each issue brings you face-to-face with students and graduates on a personal journey to succeed at business ownership. In many instances their startup ventures are a direct result of the regiment of Pepperdine M.B.A. entrepreneurship courses they took. For good measure, the PDF entrepreneur-zine sources business community advice and expert perspective to ignite your own do-it-yourself start-up passions.
CURRENT ISSUE:
ISSUE NUMBER FIVE
FEATURES:
Are You Ready To Go From Employee To Full-time Entrepreneur?
ENTREPRENEURS:
- ANEDOT: Paul Dietzel (MBA ’11)
- DERIVATAS:Dat Do (MBA ’05)
- VEDANIC:Varun Khanna (MBA ’12),
- AMERICAN LOVE AFFAIR: Noelle Nguyen (PKE MBA ’12)
- BLOGCASTFM: Srinivas Rao (MBA‘09)
- MINDFIRE INC: David Rosendahl (BSM ’05)
WHAT’S BEHIND LAUNCH!
Entrepreneurship is critical to the development and well-being of society. Entrepreneurs create jobs. They drive and shape innovation, speeding up structural changes in the economy.
Net job growth in the U.S. for the last three decades has been driven almost exclusively by new startup firms. Three million jobs on average are added to the economy each year by firms in their first year of operation, while older companies lose one million jobs annually (Kauffman Foundation).
In level of entrepreneurial activity, Southern California places sixth among the fifteen largest metropolitan regions in the U.S. The Graziadio School of Business and Management aims to improve that standing.
As Dean Linda Livingstone has said, “Our approach seeks to simulate the economy by providing students and alumni with a foundation for new business creation that will result in ventures (1) with a greater chance of survival well beyond their first years, (2) that become profitable earlier in their life-cycle and (3) that create new jobs.”
PAST ISSUES
ISSUE NUMBER FOUR
FEATURES:
How to Develop A Business Plan
ENTREPRENEURS:
- CCAPCHURE LLC: Aaron Moskowitz, MBA ‘07
- LOCAXION: Pratish Shah, MBA ‘10
- DERMASHOPPE: Jimmy Nguyen, MBA ‘09 and Patrick Leroy, MBA ‘09
- ANDY BERNBAUM AUTO PARTS: Robert Buhler, MBA ‘10
ISSUE NUMBER THREE
FEATURES:
End of the 12 Year Drought
By JAY TURO
Build Your Business: 3 Tips for Explosive Growth
By DAVE LAVINSKY
ENTREPRENEURS:
- SMILE BRANDS: Steve Bilt, MBA ’01
- LOLAY.COM: Bardia Dejban, MBA Candidate ‘12
- BEYOND THE OLIVE: Crystal & Chip Reibel , MBA ’09
- SUPERHERO ENTERPRISES: Davien Watkins, BSM ’11
ISSUE NUMBER TWO
FEATURES:
Are You Mark Zuckerberg, Colonel Sanders, or John DeLorean?
By CHRISTOPHER GREY
10 Tips for Choosing a Co-founder
By JUSTIN MOORE, MBA Candidate ‘12
The Ten Commandments of Fundraising
By GRAY DEFEVERE
ENTREPRENEURS:
- SHARK BITE SCUBA: Kimberly Isaac, MBA ‘10
- SHADYS: Jaime Parker, MBA ‘99 and Asif Ahmed, MBA ‘99
- WEBVENTUROUS: Dhaval Doshi, MBA ‘10
- KM-X YOUTH SELF DEFENSE: Matt Romond, MBA ‘12
ISSUE NUMBER ONE
FEATURES:
Systematically Developing Entrepreneurs
By LARRY COX
Learning How to Uncover New Commercialization Opportunities for Existing IP
By AMY BIEMILLER
10 Entrepreneurship Rules You Must Know!
By VIKAS KHANNA, PKE MBA ‘11
ENTREPRENEURS:
- GLOBAL WAVE: Zubin Mehta, EMBA ‘06
- GO2SOCKET.COM: Tim Kim, MBA ‘10
- LEARN IT BY EAR: Brett Fisher, MBA ’11 and Stephen Yeoh, MBA ‘11
- JOBONOMICS.COM: Sameer Gupta, MBA ‘09
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