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

  • Rule #23: Never, ever underestimate the power of timing, luck and fortune…and never ever overestimate your own influence on those events.

  • Rule #73: The noble and achievable goal of being the architect of your own vision and living an entrepreneurial life are not things that come easily, nor over one weekend.

• Wealth in a week? Neil is WTFU about schemes that promise instant riches.

• BABY celebrates the success of Dr. Hector de J. Ruiz, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices. “Luck” is the result of timing, fortune and execution.

• “Leading from behind”: Dr. Paul Kedrosky addresses the importance of expert mentorship in successful technology transfer and its impact on women scientists and international researchers.

• When the customer isn’t right: Attorney Dan Hull advises that pesky clients demoralize your employees and aren’t worth keeping.

• A website is more than a business card. Andreas Roell contends search engines are the new yellow pages and offers tips to augment your site’s potential.

Dr. Paul Kedrosky is the executive director of the William J. von Liebig Center at UC San Diego, which is an innovative seed capital program that catalyzes the commercialization of technologies developed at UCSD. He is also a venture investor with Ventures West, Canada’s largest venture capital firm, where he is most active in consumer technologies and software. Dr. Kedrosky also writes a monthly column for Business 2.0 and has a popular blog focused on technology and the money culture.

Dan Hull is a partner with Hull McGuire (link to: www.hullmcguire.com) where he focuses on commercial litigation, environmental law, employment practices law, and legislative affairs. Dan is a member of both the International Bar Association and the Congress of Fellows of the Center for International Studies in Salzburg, Austria. Dan's personal "blawg," www.whataboutclients.com, is a popular blawg (legal web log) focused on the art of making clients safe and happy. The blawg puts special emphasis on how corporate boutique firms can court, service and keep Fortune 500 clients.

Andreas Roell is president of Geary Interactive, one of San Diego’s leading full-service on line advertising companies. He was also recently appointed president of the San Diego Ad Club. Since 2003, the company has more than doubled in size and has almost 50 employees with offices in San Diego, Las Vegas and New York City. Client websites are in various industries, including hospitality (a number of Las Vegas casinos), real estate (Trump International), entertainment (20th Century Fox and WB Kids), education (San Diego State University) and advocacy (GreenPeace).