Bernd Schoner on Global Product Management Talk
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LinkBernd Schoner interviewed by Caroline Dowd-Higgins.
LinkBernd Schoner will be speaking at the IEEE Boston Entrepreneurs' Panel along with Janet Kraus and Geoffrey von Maltzahn.
Date: September 2, 2014
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Constant Contact, 3rd Floor, The Great Room 1601 Trapelo Rd., Waltham, MA
Listen to Bernd being interviewed by Barry Moltz on the crazyness of running a small business.
Link[..] much of it is relevant to any entrepreneur, especially the cautionary ‘Startup Dynamics in Crisis’ chapter. It’s like a Murphy’s List of things to watch out for.
LinkListen as Bernd and I chat about building the right team & creating value for your tech start-up.
Bernd tells all about starting from a garage right here in Cambridge, MA.!
"We had to leave school... there was no more hanging out in the lab, so we started a company!" ~Bernd Schoner
Link“Having the right team determines the path and outcome of a new venture more than any decision in the lifecycle of a company,” he says. He speaks from experience--in 2002 Schoner cofounded the radio frequency identification technology company ThingMagic with four fellow Media Lab graduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and experienced a year of “extreme turmoil.”
Link"Rather than getting too focused on equity funding early on, tech start-up teams should look at alternative business models, including revenue-funding, government grants, and crowd-funding."
LinkDavid Holland interviews Bernd on the RealMoneyRadio show.
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