CEO checklist

As a first time CEO, there were times when I would sit at my desk and think, “What should I be doing today?” This feeling was especially strong after every financing round closed. After our seed round, we had defined the product and the engineers were coding it. I didn’t code. After I hired the executive team and started delegating, most of the bases were covered.

(Source: scott.a16z.com)

17 May 2012 ·

Moose Pass Social Entrepreneur

She applied for and was granted the Thomas Andrew McKinley ‘06 Entrepreneur Grant, which provided her $5,000 to live in Ghana and set up African Art Stands, an import/export nonprofit. She spent the spring semester making contacts with artists, collecting art, and shipping the pieces back to Alaska, her home state, where she planned to sell them at galleries.

10 May 2012 ·

Nana's Piksik works to keep film production in Alaska

A trade group and a Native Corporation are teamed up to promote a program that attracts movie and television productions to Alaska.

3 February 2012 ·

New opportunities in Alaska's Arctic

14 November 2011 ·

Alaska Online newspaper grows

Alaska Dispatch, the state’s leader for online news, is reporting a banner year for growth in revenue and readership. Because of our relentless coverage of Alaska our readership has grown by more than 300 percent in the past year.

2 September 2011 ·

Innovative dual screen laptop goes to market

gScreen’s dual-screen laptop offering is finally here. Can added utility outweigh a hefty price? ($1899) “Unlike Lenovo’s past offering, in which an extra little screen was cool but not essential enough to justify lugging it around everywhere, gScreen has a complete dual-screen setup that’s far more portable than a comparable desktop solution would be. As a mobile workstation, gScreen might just have something. Designers and those in finance, to name a couple, could certainly find use in being able to bring a pair of screens with them anywhere.”

(Source: gscreenlaptop.com)

23 August 2011 ·

A great wordpress theme called Portfolio

14 March 2011 ·

‘Whale’ of an impact: Estimate credits 1,300 jobs, $16.5 million to film

14 March 2011 ·

What I Learned About Entrepreneurship Through 15 Angel Investments

2 November 2010 ·

Takeoff - Simple Video Collaboration

23 September 2010 ·

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Information for anyone interested in startups, entrepreneurial activities. It's called Alaska Startups because I'm especially interested in helping Alaska out in this area.

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