<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>Asphalt &#38; Rubber &#187; entrepreneurship News</title> <atom:link href="http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/tag/entrepreneurship/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:14:44 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3</generator> <item><title>Talk Amongst Yourselves</title><link>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/talk-amonst-yourselves/</link> <comments>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/talk-amonst-yourselves/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:50:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jensen Beeler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion/Editorial]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Popular]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[consolidation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[electric]]></category> <category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EV]]></category> <category><![CDATA[exit strategy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[intellectual property]]></category> <category><![CDATA[IP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[OEM]]></category> <category><![CDATA[strategy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[talk amongst yourselves]]></category> <category><![CDATA[technology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[the future of electrics]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/?p=18647</guid> <description><![CDATA[There's something happening on the electric side of the motorcycle industry, but no one is talking publicly about it. It's a fragile idea, and it feels like even mentioning it could jeopardize its very existence. However, lately so many influential people involved with electric motorcycles have independently brought up the subject with me that this discussion is not only becoming unavoidable, but perhaps airing the idea out in public will facilitate some sort of greater dialogue between the different parties. The concept that I'm referring to is of course consolidation.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/talk-amonst-yourselves/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>32</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mission Motors Raises $3.36 Million Round</title><link>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/news/mission-motors-raises-venture-capital-round/</link> <comments>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/news/mission-motors-raises-venture-capital-round/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:06:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jenny Gun</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[C. David Moll]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Edward West]]></category> <category><![CDATA[electric]]></category> <category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Finney Capital]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Infield Capital]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jit Bhattacharya]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Finney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mission Motors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mission One]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mission Two]]></category> <category><![CDATA[production]]></category> <category><![CDATA[production facility]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Venture Capital]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/?p=11641</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mission Motors has submitted an SEC Form D filing that shows that the San Francisco based company has raised $3.36 million in a $4.67 million investment round. While Mission Motors won&#8217;t comment on the SEC filing, the use of the funds is presumably to go towards bringing production of the Mission One and subsequent Mission motorcycles into reality, as the Mission Motors team gears up to bring its creations to market and establish a production ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/news/mission-motors-raises-venture-capital-round/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Step Right Up and Get Your Authentic Erik Buell Racing Wheel &#8211; Slightly Used from MMP</title><link>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/news/erik-buell-racing-crash-wheel-ebay/</link> <comments>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/news/erik-buell-racing-crash-wheel-ebay/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:22:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jenny Gun</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[auction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crash]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ebay]]></category> <category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Erik Buell Racing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Geoff May]]></category> <category><![CDATA[It really brought the room together]]></category> <category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Miller Motorsports Park]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rear wheel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[startup]]></category> <category><![CDATA[this is how you do a viral marketing campaign]]></category> <category><![CDATA[viral marketing]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/?p=11516</guid> <description><![CDATA[You gotta love Erik Buell. Say what you will about his motorcycles, but the guy and his team live outside of the box, and it&#8217;s awesome. When Geoff May had an off at Miller Motorsports Park, and launched his Erik Buell Racing 1125RR into the air, the result was this busted PVM forged magnesium rear-wheel. While most teams would throw it into the scrap heap, EBR is instead auctioning it off on eBay to help raise ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/news/erik-buell-racing-crash-wheel-ebay/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mission Motors Changes Management Line-up – Appoints Jit Bhattacharya as Interim CEO</title><link>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/news/mission-motors-appoints-jit-bhattacharya-interim-ceo/</link> <comments>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/news/mission-motors-appoints-jit-bhattacharya-interim-ceo/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:20:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jensen Beeler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CEO]]></category> <category><![CDATA[COO]]></category> <category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Forrest North]]></category> <category><![CDATA[interim CEO]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jit Bhattacharya]]></category> <category><![CDATA[management]]></category> <category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mission Motors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[operations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[startup]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/?p=8453</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mission Motors has announced today that they have replaced co-founder Forrest North in his role as company CEO. The move signals a change within Mission Motors that shows the company focusing on bringing products into production and putting them into consumers&#8217; hands. In their announcement, Mission Motors’ Board of Directors have begun their search for a long-term CEO with experience in product development and automotive manufacturing, but in the interim the company will be headed ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/news/mission-motors-appoints-jit-bhattacharya-interim-ceo/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tradition Is Not A Business Model: Mission Motors</title><link>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/tradition-is-not-a-business-model-mission-motors/</link> <comments>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/tradition-is-not-a-business-model-mission-motors/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:10:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jensen Beeler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion/Editorial]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business model]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business plan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[corporate innovation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category> <category><![CDATA[electric]]></category> <category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Forrest North]]></category> <category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mission Motors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mission One]]></category> <category><![CDATA[motorcycling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[op-ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[platform]]></category> <category><![CDATA[platforms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[product developement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sunday Edition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[technology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tradition]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/?p=5883</guid> <description><![CDATA[When is a motorcycle more than a bike? When does the electric motorcycle become more than a powertrain? One of the largest hurdles that electric motorcycles face (along with electric vehicles as a whole) is the public notion that these vehicles are like their internal combustion counterparts, and therefore fit into the same preconceived anatomy of what a motorcycle should look and behave like.There is an unfluctuating desire found in motorcyclists to make every square bike fit through a round-hole. Despite this allegory, the motorcycle industry sees electric motorcycle startups challenging a lot of norms that we still cling to desperately in the motorcycle industry. Our final stop in the "Tradition Is Not A Business Model" tour of motorcycle startups, takes us to San Francisco, California and the offices of Mission Motors. Fresh on the heels of Mission's announcement of the Neimen Marcus Limited Edition Mission One, I got a chance to sit down with company CEO/Founder Forrest North and Product Manager Jeremy Cleland, to talk about how technology changes the way we understand and use motorcycles; and perhaps more important, how manufacturers can design and build better motorcycles better in the future.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/tradition-is-not-a-business-model-mission-motors/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>9</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tradition Is Not A Business Model: MotoCzysz</title><link>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/tradition-business-model-motoczysz/</link> <comments>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/tradition-business-model-motoczysz/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:09:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jensen Beeler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion/Editorial]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Popular]]></category> <category><![CDATA[America]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business model]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business plan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[corporate innovation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category> <category><![CDATA[electric]]></category> <category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Czysz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Motoczysz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[motorcycling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[op-ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sunday Edition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tradition]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/?p=5710</guid> <description><![CDATA[Today I want to broach the subject of what it means to be not only a motorcycle startup, but what it means to be an American motorcycle startup. This concept becomes even more relevant today, as the motorcycle industry is still recovering from the news of Buell's closure, and Harley-Davidson's drastic measures to stay afloat. With no precognition of this impending news, I headed to Portland, Oregon to talked to Michael Czysz, CEO of auto-biographically named MotoCzsyz. Czysz's journey presents a unique story about a company that has twice attempted to create an American-bred sportbike, and as such is the appropriate company in which to frame our discussion about what it means to be an American motorcycle company, and to market a motorcycle as such.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/tradition-business-model-motoczysz/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>21</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tradition Is Not A Business Model: Brammo</title><link>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/tradition-is-not-a-business-model-brammo/</link> <comments>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/tradition-is-not-a-business-model-brammo/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:25:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jensen Beeler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion/Editorial]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brammo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business model]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business plan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[corporate innovation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Craig Bramscher]]></category> <category><![CDATA[customer education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category> <category><![CDATA[electric]]></category> <category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marketer's Dilemma]]></category> <category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[op-ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prisoner's Dilemma]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sunday Edition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tradition]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/?p=5521</guid> <description><![CDATA[One of the biggest challenges facing electric motorcycle manufacturers comes in the form of customer education. These companies must wrestle with not only how they convert current internal combustion engine (ICE) motorcyclists to electric motorcycles, but also how they will bring current non-motorcyclists into the industry. Not an easy task to begin with, the problem is compounded by the nearly non-existent marketing budgets these companies operate on. There is no question that there is a need to putt forth the argument for electric motorcycles in the industry, but with making that case comes a marketing decision that exemplifies our Prisoner's Dilemma problem.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/tradition-is-not-a-business-model-brammo/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>17</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tradition Is Not A Business Model: Zero Motorcycles</title><link>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/tradition-is-not-a-business-model-zero-motorcycles/</link> <comments>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/tradition-is-not-a-business-model-zero-motorcycles/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:32:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jensen Beeler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion/Editorial]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business model]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business plan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[California]]></category> <category><![CDATA[corporate innovation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category> <category><![CDATA[electric]]></category> <category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[japanese]]></category> <category><![CDATA[motorcycles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Neal Saiki]]></category> <category><![CDATA[op-ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Santa Cruz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sunday Edition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tradition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zero]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/?p=5358</guid> <description><![CDATA[Walking into the office of a company is always an interesting experience. For a company, the work place is the first expression of the company&#8217;s culture. Similarly, workspaces are often a reflection of the people that work inside them, an occupational rorschach test if you will. Yet, despite its importance and revealing nature, a company headquarters is rarely experienced by the end-consumer. It is an interesting disparity that occurs in every industry, and the electric ...]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/tradition-is-not-a-business-model-zero-motorcycles/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>17</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tradition Is Not A Business Model</title><link>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/tradition-is-not-a-business-model/</link> <comments>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/tradition-is-not-a-business-model/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:58:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jensen Beeler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinion/Editorial]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business model]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business plan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[corporate innovation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category> <category><![CDATA[electric]]></category> <category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[op-ed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sunday Edition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tradition]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/?p=5000</guid> <description><![CDATA[In my last year of business school I had to write a business plan in order to officially obtain a concentration in Corporate Innovation &#038; Entrepreneurship. This was before the complete global economic meltdown, and entrepreneurship was still very much a dirty word in the hallowed walls of our MBA program. Many of my classmates were hoping for Wall Street jobs, and the class all-stars were all vying for jobs at the hottest hedge funds, so the idea of starting a company that would likely pay a negative paycheck in its first couple years was very much a foreign concept. It comes as no surprise then that only four or five business plans were submitted for consideration for the course concentration; one of which was mine, entitled Tradition is Not a Business Model - An American Sportbike Business Plan.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/tradition-is-not-a-business-model/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>10</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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