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Philip Rosedale - Founder of Coffee and Power

Philip Rosedale, Founder of Coffee and Power, discusses his recent venture and how a student’s education today can lead to a career tomorrow.  Created by Kauffman Foundation.

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  • blobby green style avatar for user christy.schmid
    hey, i love this idea - especially as a freelancer who mostly works from home, or coffee shops :) coffeeandpower.com is not working - is this the right website for this?
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  • purple pi purple style avatar for user murphy.lisamarie72
    how do I make a successful buisnes
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    • leaf blue style avatar for user James Goldbeck
      Learn, fail, learn, fail, learn, fail, learn, fail and then start to reach success. If you want to make a successful business then here are some quick pointers.
      1. Determine and define your business - Who are you? Goals? Etc...
      2. Determine your consumers/ ideal customers
      3. Determine how to reach your consumers
      4. Make sure you have processes to deliver what you promise
      5. Hire or seek help in every single area you are not an expert.
      6. Assess frequently of your goals
      7. Always put people first!

      Of course there is far too much to list, however what I provided above would help you get started.
      (13 votes)
  • blobby green style avatar for user Hazel Green
    At , Other than friends, family and people you meet everyday, are there any LEGAL LISTS to provide customers for a business?
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    • leafers seed style avatar for user jyotidps.swimming
      First of all, no business "owns" its clients or customers. People are free to use whichever service providers they like, and agreements that prevent them from doing so are often viewed as illegal "restraints of trade" and are generally struck down by the courts.

      Second of all, as I'm sure you already know, this situation is every employer's worst nightmare: You spend years training someone in the hopes they'll help you grow your business, and the next thing you know, they've quit and taken half your customers with them.
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  • leafers ultimate style avatar for user arnav
    So is it like Facebook for jobs?
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    • blobby green style avatar for user Jon-Michael McFarland
      I would not say it is a Facebook for jobs... I would say it more of a centralized data locator to fill your needs based on what your needs specially are. Using the data base of coffee shops and how many people on a daily basis go inside of a coffee shop and you could use this data. Just like what was said in the video, a persons specific skill set and if your are entrepreneur to a contracted head hunter this would be very useful! Great idea!
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  • blobby green style avatar for user Chuck Fenwick
    This is both an exciting and a challenging possibility. Exciting because it provides for a greater depth of experiences and opportunities, rather than limitations placed by cubicle walls. But, it's also a little harrowing for those who may be completely competent and talented yet lack the confidence to venture out into this scary new world. Cubicles are limiting but safe. Are we then to say that timid should not survive and the new way of working is only for the aggressive? That seems to invoke a whole new set of complications.
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  • blobby green style avatar for user Sun Hao
    I am from a technology company in Shandong, CEO Sun Hao, I sincerely hope to be able to contact Mr. Rosedale Philip, hoping to get in touch with Mr. Rosedale Philip in China to carry out your company's business, as of the end of 2014, China's Internet users has reached 649000000. Very much hope to cooperate with Mr. Rosedale Philip, my mail is jnsh01@163.com, the phone is 13854390521 please contact me. Waiting for your message.
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  • blobby green style avatar for user g.senters300
    What is relevaled the making a coffee?
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  • marcimus pink style avatar for user entlvr35
    Great, but now where do we go from here? Where can I learn more about this topic?
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  • male robot johnny style avatar for user Rajitha Amarasinghe
    Love the idea and willing to experience it.
    Is the URL of the site is - www.coffeeandpower.com

    But the massage I am getting is "Server not found"
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  • leaf green style avatar for user Deng
    The power to change, yes, especially the Internet and mobile phone.
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Video transcript

- I'm Philip Rosedale and my new company is called Coffee & Power. So Coffee & Power is an attempt to use technology in the area of work to enable people to work together in new ways. I became convinced that there were going to be enormous changes coming in the way we work together. And that the idea of assigning a bunch of people who work for you salaries and telling them to go off and build a new software project was becoming increasingly antiquated. And so what we're trying to do with Coffee & Power is change the way work, works. We're trying to create a network and a tool set for mobile work. We believe that increasingly people are gonna work away from offices. They're gonna work on contracts instead of on salaries. They're gonna work with each other in a much more ad hoc digital way than the did before and we're trying to build a website, and iPhone, and Android apps that enable people to do that effectively. So imagine an app that was just for work that would let you look at a city and see where people with different skills worked. So say you're an entrepreneur and you need a web designer, imagine being able to look at a map of a city and literally see that in this coffee shop in this coworking space are the following five or 10 people. They were there yesterday and so they'll probably be here today. My message to kids today would be to realize that many of those subjects that you learned growing up or that you've just learned in college that you think of as kind of boring and they don't matter very much, they matter a lot now. Because as we increasingly have the ability to change all of the world around us all of these disparate subjects philosophy, psychology, architecture those subjects are gonna matter more and more in a world that we now have the power to change so much. For example, looking back on history and seeing where the mistakes were made. It is a human tendency to believe that it's all been done, and it hasn't. In fact we're in a period now where the rate at which technology is changing the world around us is accelerating. And so the possible space of new ideas is growing not shrinking. We as human beings are falling behind in the race with technology to exploit new possibilities. You know I think as technology gets more and more human as the internet and computing affects our lives in more and more mainstream ways it creates an opportunity for kids, for students to turn almost any rich, interesting, education path into some impact on products in the rest of the world.