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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

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Max Levchin, Paypal

Peter 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,

2 minutes

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

4 minutes

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

3 minutes

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

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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

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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

2 minutes

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

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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.

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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

3 minutes

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

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Profit Graph

Susie Allen, Writer

A Fresh Take on Revenue Models

Early decisions about revenue models have massive implications for a company’s future.

7 minutes

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

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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

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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,

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Gajus Worthington, Fluidigm

Breaking Convention: Technology First, Market Opportunity Second

Fluidigm started the wrong way, notes Worthington. Instead of discovering a market opportunity and then finding the technology and team to take advantage of it, they invented the technology first,

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Matthew Sacks, Luminary Media

Lauren Perkins, Luminary Media

When to Accelerate

Accelerate into opportunities, then slow down to sort out complexities.

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Linda Rottenberg, Endeavor

Crazy is a Compliment [Entire Talk]

Linda Rottenberg, co-founder and CEO of Endeavor Global, shares smart lessons for cutting an entrepreneurial path in a turbulent world. Touching on elements from her upcoming book, Crazy is a

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Build a Facade

Test market potential with a clever experiment.

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Dave Peterson, Play Bigger Advisors

What Problem are You Solving?

Play Bigger Advisors Co-Founder Dave Peterson emphasizes that entrepreneurs must be able to articulate the problem they seek to solve if others are to understand their vision. Successful marketing also

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Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Ventures

Conduct a Pre-mortem Meeting

Author Guy Kawasaki suggests teams conduct a “pre-mortem” before launching a product. This technique allows teams to discover possible problems, or ways the launch could fail, while there is still

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Jensen Huang, NVIDIA

The First Six Months of NVIDIA

Jensen Huang, Co-founder of NVIDIA, recalls in vivid detail how the three founding members of the company gave the company legs – from learning the basics of incorporation, to hiring

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Tina Wells, Buzz Marketing Group

Seeing Beyond Biases

Tina Wells, founder and CEO of Buzz Marketing Group, discusses the importance of keeping a completely open mind when spotting consumer trends. She describes how businesses sometimes have preconceived notions

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Tina Seelig, Stanford University

The Puzzle Project: Entrepreneurship Simulation

This five minute video captures the essence of a two hour workshop in which student teams must reconstruct a jigsaw puzzle. Several puzzles are mixed together and the pieces distributed

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