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| Jun 17, 2025 | The Interpretable AI playbook: What Anthropic’s research means for your enterprise LLM strategy | Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made an urgent push in April for the need to understand... |
| Apr 21, 2025 | Anthropic just analyzed 700,000 Claude conversations — and found its AI has a moral code of its own | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Anthropic, the AI company founded by former OpenAI employees, has pulled back the curtain on an unprecedented ana... |
| Oct 21, 2021 | Elon Musk is predicted to become the world’s first trillionaire, thanks to SpaceX. Here’s how the dual CEO went from getting bullied as a child to becoming one of the most successful and controversial men in tech. | Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is worth $US242 ($AU324) billion.
He who was born in South Africa, has been married three times, and has six sons.
Musk is a controversial leader who has incited lawsuits and SEC investigations.
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| Jul 27, 2021 | 84% of tech workers report their products aren’t inclusive | All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
New research on inclusivity in tech reveals some concerning results: 84% of all tech employees acknowledge their products are not inclusive, according to a report ... |
| Jul 27, 2021 | 84% of tech workers report their products aren’t inclusive | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
New research on inclusivity in tech reveals some ... |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Zoom Video Stock: Will History Repeat? | Eric Yuan, founder and chief executive officer of Zoom Video Communications Inc., center, celebrates ... [+] during the company's initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, U.S., on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Zoom re... |
| Feb 9, 2021 | We Don’t Need No [full-time MBA] Education | The University of St. Thomas (UST) is the largest private university in Minnesota with ~10,000 students. The business school, the Opus College of Business, is #2 in the state for undergraduate business education. The Schulze School of Entre... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | Elon Musk says ‘too many MBAs’ are running American companies | More On: elon musk
Tesla investors’ efforts to muzzle Elon Musk could undermine Twitter bid, lawyer claims Mystery over ‘glowing swirl’ spotted above USA solved Elon Musk says ‘woke mind virus’ makes Netflix ‘unwatchable’ Elon Musk’s crypti... |
| Oct 4, 2020 | The Shocking Secret To Telling Brief And Brilliant True Stories During Job Interviews | The limits of the expected job interview script can fuel your storytelling. Getty Royalty Free. getty |
| Jun 25, 2020 | 10 Entrepreneur Podcasts Every Founder Should Listen To | Podcasts are one of my favorite content mediums, and I know I’m not alone. Podcasts are inexpensive, typically free, they’re incredibly diverse, they’re usually updated on a daily or weekly basis, and you can listen to them while doing othe... |
| Aug 6, 2018 | Почему попытка перенести запахи в цифровое пространство провалилась | Конспект материала The Hustle об обанкротившейся компании Digiscents, которая разрабатывала устройство для оцифровки запахов iSmell.
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| Jan 20, 2017 | 9 Podcasts To Get Your Entrepreneurial Juices Flowing | There are a lot of ways to stay on top of the latest trends, get the best growth hacks, or just generally occupy your free time as an entrepreneur. But in recent years, podcasts have emerged as one of the better options. Whether you want to... |
| Jan 11, 2017 | 16 Education Podcasts to Check Out In 2017 | It’s a golden age of education podcasts. Teachers, professors, education innovators, and tech skeptics have switched on their microphones to share their insights and analysis—and you’ll find plenty of lively characters and fresh voices via ... |
| Feb 27, 2016 | Heidi Roizen On How To Choose Your VC | On Thursday night, this editor hosted nearly 200 investors and entrepreneurs who came together in San Francisco to hear several guest speakers, including Heidi Roizen, a former entrepreneur, a longtime VC, and a Stanford alum who has taught... |
| Feb 5, 2016 | Theranos Doomsday Clock: A full timeline of its rise and fall (Updated) | Will Theranos bleed out? Time will tell — which is why we’ve assembled a comprehensive timeline (doomsday clock?) of this unicorn’s stealthy rise and meteoric fall. We’ll keep this timeline updated as news continues to emerge about Theranos... |
| Jan 7, 2015 | Stanford Offering Free Online Course On Technology Entrepreneurship | Stanford University is offering two-part online course on technology entrepreneurship which, pioneered in Silicon Valley, is now spreading around the world. The online student community will learn the process of taking a technology idea and... |
| Nov 1, 2014 | 3 Keys To Being a Great Storyteller | A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to share my story as an entrepreneur at my alma mater, The University of San Diego. Excited about the opportunity, I took time to find trends in what made great storytellers. Researching over 30 amazing ... |
| Jun 22, 2014 | Stanford's Tina Seelig tells us the quick-and-dirty way to teach both innovation and creativity (interview) | Tina Seelig recently got one of the Oscars of Silicon Valley. The SVForum named honored her as a winner of one of its annual Visionary Awards.
Seelig has taught innovation and creativity at Stanford University for the past 15 years. She is ... |
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| Apr 23, 2013 | Chartboost Is Building The Next Gaming Platform To Watch, And They’re Expanding To Europe | Five years ago from their native city of Barcelona, Maria Alegre used to watch old Stanford Technology Ventures Program videos from entrepreneurs sharing their founding stories. Intrigued by what she heard, she picked up and moved to the Va... |
| Jun 24, 2012 | Want To Revolutionize Health? Enable Physicians, Don't Replace Them | Doctor & Patient at Naankuse Lifeline Clinic (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
| Apr 28, 2012 | Data Driven Decisions for Startups | Editor’s note: Uzi Shmilovici is the CEO and founder of Future Simple, the company behind Base CRM.
“If you don’t have any facts, we’ll just use my opinion.” – Jim Barksdale (former president and CEO of Netscape).
Startups are the sum of th... |
| Apr 14, 2012 | Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: Everyone’s connected in Silicon Valley | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom knew all the r... |
| Sep 8, 2011 | Don’t miss DEMO next week! Here’s why all the cool kids will be there | Above: Reid Hoffmann, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn
Above: Bill Campbell, Chairman of the Board, Intuit
Above: Geoffrey Moore, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Above: Rich Wong, Partner, Accel Partners
Above: Brad Stone, Technol... |
| Jun 10, 2011 | How proximity affects workplace relationships | In an era where more and more workers are telecommuting for part of the week, if not entirely, the importance of physical proximity is often overlooked. In this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture, given at Stanford University, Ori Brafman,... |
| Jun 3, 2011 | Want to grow innovation? Fix immigration | As movements such the startup visa program continue to gain steam in Washington, the CTO of the United States is joining the call. Aneesh Chopra, in this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture given at Stanford University, says the key to fixi... |
| May 27, 2011 | Lean startups vs. fat startups | While the traditional definition of lean startup is one that moves fast, venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur Mark Suster says a better definition is one that’s tied to size and funding levels. There’s nothing wrong with being lean as... |
| May 20, 2011 | Answers are easy. Finding problems is hard. | Most entrepreneurs think they know what problem they’re trying to solve when they decide to launch a company – but that certainty fades quickly as they begin digging into the situation. Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom, in this Entreprene... |
| May 13, 2011 | Today’s bad idea: Compensating solely on performance | In most companies, the better you perform, the more you earn. But Geoffrey Moore, author and venture partner at MDV, says focusing exclusively on that metric can hurt a company in the long run. Instead, he tells students in this Entrepreneu... |
| May 6, 2011 | Vulnerability as a leadership skill | Being vulnerable is often thought of as being a disadvantage in the business world, but Ori Brafman, author of “Click: The Magic of Instant Connections,” says it can actually be one of the best way to engender trust with employees in this E... |
| Apr 29, 2011 | The long, slow death of the IPO | IPOs traditionally have been the pinnacle of success for companies, but Barry Silbert, founder and CEO of SecondMarket argues that’s no longer true. The IPO market, he tells students in this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture at Stanford U... |
| Apr 28, 2011 | The only wrong answer is 50/50: Calculating the co-founder equity split | Dan Shapiro (Randy Stewart photo)
Guest Commentary: The question of equity brings out the most fundamental differences, perceptions, and values in an aspiring startup. In fact the equity question, more than any other, may strangle a young c... |
| Apr 22, 2011 | The pros and cons of dorm room startups | Aaron Levie co-founded Box.net from his dorm room, but he quickly learned that there were some strong advantages and disadvantages to that. While the company’s overhead was minimal, providing customer service from an accounting class is har... |
| Apr 8, 2011 | The power of a great smile and good handshake | Business relationships are a lot like personal relationships: You’ll get a lot more done if the other party likes you. There is, of course, no way to train to be likeable, but entrepreneur and author Guy Kawaski notes that a person’s ‘likab... |
| Apr 1, 2011 | Walking the fine line between goals and ROI | It’s certainly possible to set your goals too high when launching a start-up, but serial entrepreneur Brent Constantz, founder of Calera and other firms, says there needs to be a balance between ambition and the urge to see immediate return... |
| Mar 25, 2011 | Twitter co-founder Dorsey: Instrument everything | After Jack Dorsey co-founded Twitter, the company flew blind for its first two years. No one at the company knew how users were using the system, he tells students in this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture at Stanford University. Instead,... |
| Mar 11, 2011 | Weekend warriors discover the pivot | Sometimes, you learn that your company needs to pivot not by looking at the books, but by listening to your customer. Bill Gross, founder of Idealab, tells in this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture, given at Stanford University, how he le... |
| Mar 4, 2011 | Strategy means nothing without implementation | Everyone loves to talk about strategy, but simply having a plan won’t get you anywhere. Mark Forchette, CEO of OptiMedica says strategy is only as good as the tactical execution behind it in this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture given at... |
| Feb 18, 2011 | Twitter co-founder tells how it all got started | Twitter is an omnipresent part of the technology landscape today, but not long ago it was just another startup. Co-founder Jack Dorsey tells the story of how the microblogging site came into existence while he was working at Odeo, a consume... |
| Feb 4, 2011 | Be your startup’s only board member | Life certainly seems easier for startups that have financial backing, but there’s a hidden downside: Board meetings. Serial entrepreneur Brent Constantz, founder of Calera and other firms, says the time management issues that come with havi... |
| Jan 28, 2011 | 5 solid startup lessons | When Aaron Levie launched Box.net from his college dorm room, he was exploring a lot of new territory. Now, as CEO of a company that has raised nearly $30 million in venture capital since 2005, he has filtered what he has learned into five ... |
| Jan 21, 2011 | May 1, 2002: Larry Page And Eric Schmidt Talk About Google, The Future, And Their Dynamic | On May 1, 2002, two men took the stage at a Stanford University event to answer some questions about their startup. The startup? Google. The two men? Eric Schmidt and Larry Page.
That was less than a year after Schmidt officially became CEO... |
| Jan 21, 2011 | How should startups pay their attorney? | Startups are often cash-strapped in their early days, but it’s usually during those times that they most desperately need legal counsel. So what’s the best way to compensate those professionals for their time?
Despite some perceptions, the ... |
| Jan 14, 2011 | How to drive a successful social media campaign | There are a lot of companies trying to get traction in the social arena these days – and most will fall short. Stanford GSB professor Jennifer Aaker, in this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture, given at Stanford University, discusses some ... |
| Jan 7, 2011 | The most intimate relationship you’ll ever have … | “Raising venture capital is worse than marriage,” says investor and serial entrepreneur Mark Suster. When a marriage doesn’t work out, you can get divorced, but there’s no separation from your VC or angel investors. In this entrepreneur tho... |
| Dec 24, 2010 | Pruning rotten apples from your company | The Osmond Brothers got it wrong. One bad apple CAN spoil the whole darn bunch. And that’s especially true in the startup world. A negative and selfish employee can start a contagion throughout the company, causing other employees to act th... |
| Dec 3, 2010 | Protecting your intellectual property – from VCs | Generally speaking, venture capital firms won’t sign non-disclosure agreements – and that’s usually not a problem. When they do reveal secrets, word gets out. That doesn’t mean you should go in unprotected, says attorney Martin Nichols in t... |
| Nov 26, 2010 | The hallmarks of a great boss | There are plenty of bad bosses. There are fewer good ones. But it’s especially rare to find a great boss.
Stanford professor and author Bob Sutton looks at the hallmarks and strategies of that rare breed in this Entrepreneur Thought Leader ... |
| Nov 19, 2010 | The dangers that come with being on top | While every start-up dreams of ruling its industry, there are unique challenges that come with achieving that goal. The biggest challenge for Amazon has been to not appear arrogant, says Diego Piacentini, the company’s senior VP of internat... |
| Nov 12, 2010 | A lean startup isn’t necessarily a small one | The notion of the lean startup, for many people, brings to mind a shoestring operation. That’s not always the case, says Ann Miura-Ko, co-founding partner at Floodgate. Some of today’s largest brands, including eBay, Apple and Microsoft sta... |
| Nov 5, 2010 | Hsieh: Corporate culture should be a top priority | You might have read our review of Zappos CEO and founder Tony Hsieh’s recent book “Delivering Happiness” a couple of weeks ago.
Hsieh’s a fanatic about building a strong company culture, where each department understands the other. And his ... |
| Oct 29, 2010 | When should you sell your company? | There’s a perception in Silicon Valley that if you sell your company for under $100 million, you’re a failure. That’s bunk, notes serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Mark Suster in this entrepreneur thought leader lecture given at St... |
| Oct 15, 2010 | Want to be a better entrepreneur? Put on a suit | One of the joys of the startup world is the freedom from the trappings of the corporate grind. But Amit Chatterjee, CEO and founder of Hara, a provider of environmental and energy management solutions, says there’s actually a benefit to wor... |
| Oct 8, 2010 | Chile hopes to lure U.S. startups | Chile’s getting serious about startups. The government’s development agency has set aside nearly $300 million for entrepreneurial investments, says Juan Andrés Fontaine, Chile’s Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism. In this Entrepre... |
| Oct 1, 2010 | 4 essential qualities to look for when hiring | Job skills vary from industry to industry, but there are some universal qualities that entrepreneurs should always seek out when they’re boosting their company’s headcount. William Sahlman, a professor at Harvard Business School, runs down ... |
| Sep 10, 2010 | 3 key building blocks for your company’s culture | Building your company’s culture ultimately comes down to three things, says Andy Friere, Co-founder and CEO of Axialent, an international consulting firm. In this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture given at Stanford University, Friere says... |
| Sep 3, 2010 | 3 ways to improve entrepreneurial success | John Osher, developer of the low-cost spin toothbrush, was a successful entrepreneur because he thought differently. William Sahlman, professor at Harvard Business School, breaks down the three most important factors in Osher’s success in t... |
| Aug 27, 2010 | The 5 biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make | Screw-ups are inevitable when you’re launching your own business. Entrepreneurs are often less clear about their company’s purpose than they thought they were – or hit roadblocks they didn’t anticipate and don’t know how to handle. Serial e... |
| Aug 13, 2010 | Manage your time like you manage your money | You’ve heard the old adage that time is money – but too many entrepreneurs fail to take that lesson to heart. The management and allocation of your schedule is something that can be critical to success, however, says Alec Ross, senior advis... |
| Jul 30, 2010 | Entrepreneurs: Unlearn your MBA! | David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of the Ruby on Rails Web development framework and partner at 37signals, is a pretty smart guy. But to succeed as an entrepreneur, he found that his education was, in some ways, working against him. In ... |
| Jul 28, 2010 | Recommended Listening: 10 Podcasts for Startups | Some of us have daily routines that are conducive to listening to podcasts – long commutes, lengthy stints at the gym.
But just as summer is traditionally the time we are meant to pick up a book to read, summer travels make this a particula... |
| Jul 16, 2010 | Today’s crazy idea is tomorrow’s breakthrough | In today’s economy, more and more companies are becoming risk-averse, looking solely at the near-term bottom line. But Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of the X-Prize Foundation, notes in this 2008 Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture at St... |
| Jul 9, 2010 | 5 critical skills entrepreneurs need | Running a startup is a combination of luck and skill. The luck part of that you can’t control, but serial entrepreneur and technical innovator Jerry Kaplan notes there are certain qualities that successful entrepreneurs share. He runs down ... |
| Jul 2, 2010 | Innovation can be learned | Most people think of innovation as a “Eureka!” moment – or something that comes from hours upon hours of tinkering. But Josh Makower, CEO of ExploraMed, argues that innovation is a skill that can be taught in this Entrepreneur Thought Leade... |
| Jun 11, 2010 | Your first investor is your lawyer | Navigating the world of angels, VCs and other potential investors is a labyrinth for most startup owners. Rashmi Sinha and Jonathan Boutelle, cofounders of SlideShare, found this out themselves as they were building their social-sharing sli... |
| Jun 4, 2010 | Want to solve a problem? Live inside of it | Solving a problem is hard – but truly understanding a problem is even harder, says Josh Makower, founder and chief executive officer of ExploraMed, a medical-device incubator. The real trick, he notes in this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lec... |
| May 28, 2010 | Three Necessities for Start-up Success | To achieve victory in the corporate world, a start-up needs three things, says serial entrepreneur and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen. One of those – a product that’s ten times better than the nearest competitor – has a little wiggle room... |
| May 21, 2010 | Can entrepreneurs be made? | The nature vs. nurture debate is a common one in just about any field, but in the world of startups, it’s hotly contested. Some say you need inherent skills to stand any sort of chance at succeeding, while others believe it’s possible to le... |
| May 14, 2010 | The state of venture capital | While things are improving, there’s still a severe lack of liquidity in the venture capital world. Intel Capital Vice President Lisa Lambert offers her thoughts on the state of the startup financing world in this entrepreneur thought leader... |
| May 7, 2010 | Want to succeed? Quit marketing | Figuring out how best to market your startup is a hotly debated topic (even here in the Entrepreneur Corner). But Tom Conrad, CTO of Pandora, in this entrepreneur thought leader lecture given at Stanford University, says his company has fou... |
| Apr 30, 2010 | Keeping the faith as an entrepreneur | If there’s one thing all startup owners share, it’s the bouts of frustration that hit at inopportune times. Carlos Perea, CEO of clean tech company Miox, shares that frustration in this thought leader lecture given at Stanford University, r... |
| Apr 26, 2010 | Lessons for Entrepreneurs from World of Warcraft | When film critic Roger Ebert posted on his blog that “Video Games Can Never Be Art,” he seemed to incur the wrath of the gaming community, and the entry now has over 3,000 comments, many protesting Ebert’s claims. Ebert wonders why the desi... |
| Apr 23, 2010 | World of Warcraft: Entrepreneur incubator | There are plenty of places for entrepreneurs to hone their skills, but none is quite as unique as “World of Warcraft,” says John Seely Brown, former director of Xerox PARC. In this entrepreneur thought leader lecture given at Stanford Unive... |
| Apr 16, 2010 | The biggest mistake startups make | Your startup might have the best product or service to come dancing down the pike in years, but that hardly guarantees success, according to Liz Tinkham, a global manager at Accenture. In this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture given last ... |
| Apr 9, 2010 | Building to flip vs. building to last | Are today’s entrepreneurs taking a lot of risk? Steve Case, former CEO of AOL and an entrepreneur himself, says he doesn’t think so in this entrepreneur though leader lecture given earlier this year at Stanford University. Rather, he mainta... |
| Apr 2, 2010 | Not building your dream product? That’s ok | Becoming an entrepreneur isn’t so much a jump into something new as it is a series of pivots, says Jonathan Boutelle, co-founder of SlideShare. And building something that isn’t your dream product initially isn’t bad as long as it gives you... |
| Mar 26, 2010 | The perfect startup team? Grey hair and Mohawks | A startup team made up solely of college students may find themselves making tons of rookie mistakes, but a company founded by veterans may be trapped in yesterday’s thinking. And any company made up solely of either demographic has virtual... |
| Mar 19, 2010 | VC wisdom: Be a missionary, not a mercenary | It’s hard enough to catch a venture capital company’s eye, but convincing them to give you funding is even harder. Beth Seidenberg, a partner with Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, runs down the five metrics she uses to decide which co... |
| Mar 12, 2010 | An angel investor’s advice for startups | Angel investor Ron Conway has put money in over 500 companies, so he knows a few things about what works and what doesn’t. In this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture at Stanford University, Conway and fellow investor Mike Maples Jr. of Map... |
| Mar 5, 2010 | Entrepreneurism: The age gap | There’s no minimum age to launch a start-up, but young entrepreneurs sometimes face challenges that experienced ones do not. Stanford University gathered a panel of successful start-up owners in their 20s to address the age gap and gather t... |
| Feb 26, 2010 | Entrepreneurs have no rules | When his son announced he was going to become an entrepreneur, Accuray’s John Adler breathed a sigh of relief. Trip Adler, who went on to run Scribd, had always been a free spirit — and the senior Adler notes that he was likely to succeed, ... |
| Feb 19, 2010 | Out-teach the competition | In a startup, you’re never going to be able to outspend a big company – but David Heinemeier Hansson a partner in 37signals and the creator of Ruby on Rails, says you don’t need to. In this recent entrepreneur thought leaders lecture at Sta... |
| Feb 5, 2010 | Want to succeed? Try failing | Silicon Valley celebrates its successes, but the failure rate is generally much, much higher. But what makes the Valley different than other entrepreneur-rich areas is how it deals with those failures. Randy Komisar of Kleiner Perkins, in t... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | How Prizes Can Finance Core Technology | As we’ve covered in the past, the cost of engaging and keeping great employees can be high. You can pay an intelligent employee to stay late, or placate them with a posh office environment, but one way to keep an innovator in their chair is... |
| Jan 21, 2010 | Google: Our focused approach paid off, ‘We like the Chinese people’ | While crowing about Google’s strong fourth quarter earnings during a conference call this afternoon, the search giant’s executives looked back on 2009 as a whole. While Google seemed to be elbowing its way into many new markets this year, V... |
| Jan 15, 2010 | Tech changes and the entrepreneur: How to keep up | Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that over the next 20 years, we’ll see as much change in technology as we’ve seen in the past 100. If that’s true, it means the future changes faster than we can keep up with it, notes Draper Fisher Jurvetson ... |
| Dec 25, 2009 | Your most important support staff | Engineers and an expert sales team are valuable to entrepreneurs, but the most important members of the team are supportive members of your family, says Frank Levinson, founder of Finisar. In this talk, given as part of an entrepreneur thou... |
| Dec 11, 2009 | How to fail… gloriously | Is it possible to execute flawlessly, build a compelling product and be loved by the media and still be a colossal failure? You bet, says Eric Ries, in this entrepreneur thought leader lecture given earlier this year at Stanford University.... |
| Dec 4, 2009 | Want to be a CEO? Try product management first | Launching your own business is a daunting task – and one that can make even the most confident entrepreneur doubt his or her skills. Mark Pincus, CEO and founder of Zynga, in this entrepreneur-though-leadership lecture given at Stanford Uni... |
| Nov 26, 2009 | Moore’s Law beats customer feedback | Marketing experts might be aghast to hear a CEO say “sometimes you have to ignore your customers,” but in the tech world that’s necessary.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, in this lecture given to Stanford University’s technology venture’s program,... |
| Nov 20, 2009 | Tech mishaps and the human problem | Behind every tech problem is a human problem – and if you don’t dig into it and figure out how solve it, your company will never progress. Serial entrepreneur Eric Ries, in this entrepreneurial though leader lecture given at Stanford Univer... |
| Nov 13, 2009 | Start-ups have no room for VPs | You’ve heard the advice before: You’re a small company, act like one. Yet more and more entrepreneurs tend to think of their businesses as a small version of a large company – and they plan and hire accordingly.
Serial entrepreneur Steve Bl... |
| Nov 6, 2009 | The five biggest mistakes that entrepreneurs make | The tricks to success change all the time, but the keys to failure are consistent. Serial entrepreneur Jerry Kaplan put together this list in a lecture in Stanford University’s entrepreneur thought leader speaker series in 2003 – but it’s a... |
| Oct 30, 2009 | Start-up studies: A pop quiz | There’s a classroom exercise that the Stanford technology venture program hits its students with each year: If you had five dollars and two hours, what would you do to make as much money as possible? STVP Executive Director Tina Seelig disc... |
| Oct 9, 2009 | Does your company really deserve VC money? | Investment firms hear from thousands of entrepreneurs every year, so making your company stand out from the crowd is crucial. Beth Seidenberg of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers lays out the five factors her firm looks at when deciding ... |
| Oct 2, 2009 | Trendspotting: Look to the horizon, not around you | It’s easy to pick up the trends of today – and it’s not a particularly big challenge to spot tomorrow’s. But the best place for start-ups to look is much further down the road, says Michael Moe, a founding partner at ThinkEquity in this ent... |
| Sep 18, 2009 | Is the tech boom over for entrepreneurs? | There are a lot of tech start-ups launching these days, but Tom Siebel, Chairman of First Virtual Group (and founder of Siebel Systems) says they’re more bells and whistles than real breakthroughs. In this entrepreneurial thought leader lec... |
| Sep 11, 2009 | Skills of great entrepreneurs | Being smart and working hard isn’t a guarantee of success in the entrepreneurial world. Outside influences often have a bigger say in the fate of your company than you do. But Randy Komisar of Kleiner Perkins, in this talk given at a Stanfo... |
| Sep 4, 2009 | Too much funding can be toxic for start-ups | The dream is a common one for entrepreneurs – find start-up capital and find as much of it as you can. But being cash rich isn’t always the best move for your company. Mike Maples of Maples Investments, in this talk at the Stanford Technolo... |