Chris Redlitz, The Last Mile A Reason to Not Take the Money Chris Redlitz, co-founder of The Last Mile, explains why his program chooses to not pursue government funding as part of their effort to bring entrepreneurship and technology skills to prison
Jennifer Aaker, Stanford University, GSB Driving a Successful Social Media Campaign Using the case study of Team Sameer – a successful social media campaign to find a bone marrow donor for a man with leukemia – Stanford GSB professor Jennifer Aaker
Tom Kelley, IDEO Field Observations with Fresh Eyes IDEO’s General Manager, Tom Kelley, shares a case study demonstrating value opportunities that arise when designers, innovators, and entrepreneurs see with fresh eyes. He cites his company’s challenge to design
Matthew Sacks, Luminary MediaLauren Perkins, Luminary Media The Power of HR Even scrappy startups need a professional hiring process.
Leah Busque, TaskRabbit Employment Impacts Leah Busque, founder and CEO of TaskRabbit, shares statistics on the number of Americans who depend on the site for full-time work and income. She also describes how TaskRabbit empowers
Bill Gross, Idealab & eSolar 2 Reasons Companies Can Fail Idealab Founder and CEO Bill Gross offers lessons he has learned from company failures. According to Gross, company failures are often due to two common factors: team issues and running
Lisa Lambert, Intel Capital Investing for Market Strategy and Capital [Entire Talk] Lisa Lambert, Vice President at Intel Capital, speaks at length on the experience of working for a mammoth, corporate-backed strategic venture capital firm. She unpacks the challenges of the post-recession
Chip Conley, Modern Elder Academy Efficient markets – Great for Customers, Tough on Business During the economic downturn that followed the dot-com bust, there were many travel bargains to be found through new websites such as Expedia and Priceline. In what is called an
Judy Estrin, JLABS, LLC The Role of the Startup is to Create a New Market Innovation will drive the next cycle, says Estrin. Startups don't succeed in validated markets; the role of startups is to create a new market, she says. As an entrepreneur, you
Matt Harvey, Stanford University Long, Slow Death of the IPO Ten years ago, every company founder dreamed of taking their startup public. Maybe they wouldn’t openly admit to fantasizing about an IPO, but this major event could provide a company
Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital In conversation with: Emily Ma Performance Trumps Social Media Sequoia Capital's Michael Moritz explains how well a business performs and shows decisiveness do more to make a good impression than savvy social-media marketing. Even though venture capitalists promote the
Susie Allen, Writer A Fresh Take on Revenue Models Early decisions about revenue models have massive implications for a company’s future.
Cindy Padnos, Illuminate Ventures Preparing for What's Next "We won't predict where the future is, the entrepreneurs will," says Cindy Padnos, founder and managing partner of Illuminate Ventures. Here Padnos deconstructs how her firm identifies new opportunities by
Max Levchin, PaypalPeter Thiel, Paypal When and Why to Merge With a Competitor to Dominate a Market The early merger with the competitor created a unified front that helped convince people that there was a large market with real growth. Though there is no way to tell,
Mike Peña, Stanford University Amazon: The GMO that Swallowed Whole Foods Markets Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of the Whole Foods Market chain, which is now a done deal, has grocery shoppers salivating at the thought of never having to walk into a
Halle Tecco, Rock Health Incentives Do Matter Rock Health CEO Halle Tecco argues why healthcare does not exist as a free market in the United States. With prices held as proprietary information by hospitals, and doctors and
Scott Harrison, charity: water Giving Supporters What They Need Founder and CEO Scott Harrison explains how the passion and commitment of charity: water's supporters altered his organization's approach. Gaining scale, says Harrison, was achieved by focusing on an easy-to-use
Eric Yuan, Zoom Video CommunicationsSantiago Subotovsky, Emergence Capital In conversation with: Ravi Belani Focus on the Game, not the Score Instead of focusing on competitors, focus on solving customer problems and making users happy.
Move Fast and Fix the Planet – Official Trailer Find out what’s unique about entrepreneurship when it comes to climate and sustainability.
Barry Silbert, SecondMarket, Inc. Illiquid Assets are Like Baseball Cards SecondMarket Founder and CEO Barry Silbert held a number of jobs in banking before starting his own company. However, trading baseball cards as a child gave him the most profound
Steve Teig, Tabula Superior Product is Not Enough Serial entrepreneur Steve Teig tells a story illustrating why having a superior product is no guarantee of success if you are too far ahead of the market.
David Friedberg, The Climate Corporation Recognizing Opportunity in the Rain CEO David Friedberg tells the story of how a bicycle rental shop in the rain served as opportunity recognition for a new venture. Friedberg also outlines the initial steps in
Chris Gerdes, Stanford University Play Out the Possibilities Stanford Professor Chris Gerdes talks about conceivable second- and third-order consequences of widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles. He uses the example of how transportation costs could drop dramatically when drivers
Barry Silbert, SecondMarket, Inc. A New Vision for Capital Markets [Entire Talk] SecondMarket Founder and CEO Barry Silbert thinks his online marketplace for trading alternative assets can play an important role in creating a new model for capital markets. In this lecture,