Wise Words: Lessons in Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital

Wise Words: Vol 2, Ep 1: We are smarter than Me

Sean Wise, sits down with Barry Libert, whose new book We are smarter than Me, is the first book on crowdsourcing written by the crowd. Learn how to turn your enemies into allies and your customers into evangelists in this fascinating interview.

Wise Words vol 1 ep 9: Seed Investor Salim Teja from Brightspark Ventures shares how to raise seed capital

Salim Teja, VP with Brightspark Ventures, talks about his experience raising seed capital as both an entrepreneur with MobShop and as a Venture Capitalist with software centric Brightspark Ventures which focuses on early stage and seed deals

Wise Words vol 1 ep 8: Adobe's Tom Hale on getting your platform widely adopted

Tom Hale, formerly of Macromedia, and now post merger, a senior VP at Adobe, talks about how to get your platform widely adopted by users globally (flash and acrobat each are on more than 88% of internet enabled desktops worldwide). This interview covers issues such as standardization, developing for end users, and viral marketing.

Wise Words vol 1 ep 7: Greg Isaacs, head of ebay's developer program, shares how to get others to do your R&D for you, and do so for free

Wise Words vol 1 ep 7: Greg Isaacs, head of ebay's developer program, (#31 on Business 2.0's list of most influential people) shares how to get others to do your R&D for you, and do so for free. Greg shares tips for building an active cadre of developers, balancing internal and external R&D, and how to help expand your company into a community. This is one you don't want to miss!

Wise Words vol 1 ep 6: IBM's Claudia Fan Munce, Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Venture Capital talks about IBM's approach to doing deals with Startups.

IBM's Claudia Fan Munce, Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Venture Capital talks about IBM's approach to doing deals with Startups and big blue's approach to venture capital.