http://knowledgenetwork.thunderbird.edu/walker A Thunderbird Knowledge Network Blog Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:52:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mr. Scott Walker, the Thunderbird Alumni and one of the founders of the Walker Center at Thunderbird had invited us to his Winery at Napa valley. It was a beautiful ride and very scenic. At the vinery we were hustled into a cave, where in the midst of barrels of ... http://knowledgenetwork.thunderbird.edu/walker/2012/01/22/entrepreneurship-winterim-meeting-with-mr-scott-walker-at-napa-vallet/ Innovation centers have always sounded the most attractive place to work at. A few places are there where you get appreciation for your creativity. Ideo center is one such place. Located in a very beautiful location in San Jose, the ambience of the place will speak for itself and the ... http://knowledgenetwork.thunderbird.edu/walker/2012/01/22/entrepreneurship-winterim-ideo-center-of-innovation/ We met Mr. Spencer Rhodes, a Harvard Alumnus, and a prolific investor of many start-ups and also has an illustrious career. He started investing in companies during the dot com era. They had raised enough funds to start a company dealing with resume’ editing of students and associated services. They ... http://knowledgenetwork.thunderbird.edu/walker/2012/01/22/entrepreneurship-winterim-meeting-with-mr-spencer-rhodes-011913/ On the 3rd day at San Francisco, the hub of Silicon Valley, we met at a very unique place, the University club of San Francisco. We were meeting Mr. Paul Rosenfeld and Tracy Grover, founders of Fanminder. The clients of the company are mainly the small business ventures, who would ... http://knowledgenetwork.thunderbird.edu/walker/2012/01/22/entrepreneurship-winterim-session-with-mr-paul-rosenfeld-fanminder-011813/ Recycling and Processing industries is just what the world needs. It not just helps in maintaining the environment process, but the products obtained from it help in cutting down budgets of big industries as well. We met with Mr. Farook Afsari, a Thunderbird alumnus, CEO of eCullet. The company mainly ... http://knowledgenetwork.thunderbird.edu/walker/2012/01/22/entrepreneurship-winterim-meeting-with-mr-farook-afsari-ecullet-011712/ We headed to TechShop in downtown SanFrancisco.  Techshop was started as a unique platform for individual to come and design their prototypes which will be useful for their ventures. Anyone can join this techshop and use their training, tools and machineries to design their new ideas and gadgets. Techshop houses ... http://knowledgenetwork.thunderbird.edu/walker/2012/01/22/entrepreneurship-winterim-at-the-techshop-011712/ We headed to ReelFx studios, which specializes in production and post-production special effects in movies (including animation). We were first given a tour of the studio and its infrastructure by Mr. Chuck and then they screened some of their special effects work (in 3-d) they have done in their movies ... http://knowledgenetwork.thunderbird.edu/walker/2012/01/22/entrpreneurship-winterim-reelfx-studios-los-angeles-011312/ We were meeting at the Milken institute with Mr. Ross DeVol and Mr. Paul H. Irving, who head the operations in research and marketing respectively. They gave us an overview of their functions. Milken Institute was started as a mission to establish research activities, in improving the world we live, ... http://knowledgenetwork.thunderbird.edu/walker/2012/01/22/entrepreneurship-winterim-milken-institute-0113-12/ Pink’s Hot Dogs, one of the landmarks in Hollywood, and one  of the oldest Hot Dog centers, still has the unique ambience which many other fast food restaurants seems to have lost. We had a chance to meet Mr. Richard Pink and his wife Ms. Gloria Pink at their restaurant ... http://knowledgenetwork.thunderbird.edu/walker/2012/01/22/entrpreneurship-winterim-meeting-with-mr-richard-pink-pinks-hotdogs-l-a-011212/ Ms. Kimberly Fowler of Yoga and Spinning is an example of how successful women entrepreneurs have been in starting their own venture, leaving behind a successful career. Ms. Kimberly, was a COO  and a lawyer and was quite contended with her profession. Due to mishap, she had to be in ... http://knowledgenetwork.thunderbird.edu/walker/2012/01/22/entrepreneurship-winterim-meeting-with-ms-kimberly-fowler-founder-of-yoga-and-spinning-011312/