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Audio Podcast: Adventures of a Startup CEO: No Guts No Glory
Description
Warren Packard, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Andrew Frame, CEO of Ooma, present 10 lessons for building a successful start-up. They highlight the importance of dislocating large markets, active recruiting, organizational design, board construction, alignment of vision, managing mis-hires, building for scalability, product development, intellectual capital, and mentorship in establishing a lasting enterprise that adds value in the marketplace.
Andrew Frame Biography
ooma is the result of Andrew's desire to combine his technical expertise with his passion for innovative and fun consumer products. Andrew Co-founded his first technology company, an ISP in Las Vegas, at age 15. He then joined Cisco as a full-time employee, and at 17 he became the youngest person ever to earn Cisco's top technical honor - a CCIE certification. He also earned a second one that same year, making him one of just eight people at the time to do so. At age 19, he moved to Cisco's Global Center of Expertise to focus on critical networking issues for large service providers in the Pacific Rim and Latin America.

After several years at Cisco, Andrew joined start-up core router company Procket Networks as an engineer. He remained there until 2004, when he decided to return to his entrepreneurial roots as the founder of ooma.

Andrew was recently named by the editors of Businessweek as one of the top entrepreneurs under the age of 30 most likely to shape the worl...
Ooma
Warren Packard Biography
Warren Packard is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He currently serves on the Boards of 422 inc., Anagran, BinOptics, EoPlex, Imago Scientific Instruments, Media Lario, and Ooma. Mr. Packard also leads the firm's investments in Feedburner, Jaxtr, Microfabrica, Primet Precision Materials, TicketsNow, and YeePay.  Former investments include Chilisoft (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Digital Impact (acquired by Acxiom), Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves), Enviz (acquired by Keynote Systems), Fogdog Sports (acquired by GSI Commerce), Hypernex (acquired by Nova Measuring Instruments), NetMind (acquired by Puma Technology), and Xfire (acquired by Viacom). Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Packard co-founded Angara Database Systems, a main memory relational database company, which was acquired by Personify. Prior to co-founding Angara, he was an Associate at Institutional Venture Partners, investing in early-stage technology companies. Before IVP, Mr. Packar...
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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture
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