• Rules from the BABY’s Book on Becoming a Billionaire
  
  

  • Rule #211: Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac and motivator. When asked to choose between fame and fortune, pick fortune. It will last longer.

  • Rule #191: To paraphrase Daniel Burnham, a famous architect, “Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir humanity’s blood.”

• Billionaire Update: Launching an “out of this world” suite deal.

• Want to see your name in lights? Just have money in the bank if the power goes out.

• There is such thing as a stupid idea. A listener asks how to break this news to a client.

• iThink not. Randy Broberg questions Apple’s claims to the word “pod.”

• Leo Spiegel describes his entrepreneurial approach—be prepared to “drink from a fire hose!”

Leo Spiegel Leo Spiegel is managing partner of Mission Ventures, one of San Diego’s largest venture capital firms. He has also been on the other side of the table as a CEO raising money. Before becoming a venture capitalist, he was the CEO of Sandpiper Networks which merged with Digital Island, a leading provider of global e-business network and content delivery services. In 2001, Cable and Wireless acquired Digital Island in a transaction valued at more than $600 million. Leo is a graduate of UC San Diego where he started his first company with two credit cards and a second mortgage on his mother’s house.

Randy Broberg, recently named one of the best transactional intellectual property attorneys in San Diego by the San Diego Daily Transcript, is a partner at the law firm of Allen Matkins. His diverse clients have included representing General Atomics in a manufacturing arrangement against a Korean company, representing tennis player Serena Williams to acquire the domain name www.serenawilliams.com, and trademark representation of Directed Electronics which makes the Viper car alarms.