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Startup Like a Thunder Lizard

Born from radioactive eggs deep beneath the ocean, thunder lizards rise out of the sea and arrive on the scene with an epic attitude to devour everything within their path.

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Matt Harvey, Stanford University

Do You Have Disruption Deficit Disorder?

In a recent guest post on the Harvard Business Review website, economic strategist Umair Haque took Silicon Valley venture capital firms to task for backing companies that only create “thin

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ETL Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Podcast

Diego Piacentini, Amazon

Customer Focus Builds Global Growth

Diego Piacentini, Senior VP of International Retail for Amazon, discusses the company’s growth-centered business model, its global presence, and the strides it takes to sustain a successful customer experience. Piacentini

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Diego Piacentini, Amazon

Customer Focus Builds Global Growth [Entire Talk]

Diego Piacentini, Senior VP of International Retail for Amazon, discusses the company’s growth-centered business model, its global presence, and the strides it takes to sustain a successful customer experience. Piacentini

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Ann Miura-Ko, Floodgate

Funding Thunder Lizard Entrepreneurs

Stanford Engineering lecturer and FLOODGATE partner Ann Miura-Ko offers insight into the democratization of innovation in the Internet age, and its affect on investment cycles. Additionally, Miura-Ko speaks candidly about

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Ann Miura-Ko, Floodgate

Funding Thunder Lizard Entrepreneurs [Entire Talk]

Stanford Engineering lecturer and FLOODGATE partner Ann Miura-Ko offers insight into the democratization of innovation in the Internet age, and its affect on investment cycles. Additionally, Miura-Ko speaks candidly about

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Ann Miura-Ko, Floodgate

Running Out of Iterations

The lean startup operates with a business plan that can reshape until a successful business model develops. By quickly pivoting based on market feedback, a company can extend their runway

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Ann Miura-Ko, Floodgate

“Lean” Does Not Mean “Small”

The amount of capital that you take in has nothing to do with the size of a company’s ambitions, says Ann Miura-Ko, co-founding partner at FLOODGATE. Historically, some of today’s

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Chi-Hua Chien, Goodwater Capital

Dan Rosensweig, Chegg

Betting on the Inevitable

Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig talks about the tremendous expansion of the Internet when he worked for Yahoo! (as COO 2002-2006). After working in publishing for many years, it became clear

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Chi-Hua Chien, Goodwater Capital

Dan Rosensweig, Chegg

Leading a Young Team to Success

It's better for a CEO to describe success than to prescribe the exact methods employees must use to achieve it. This is done, says Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig, by establishing

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William Hagstrom, Crescendo Bioscience

Lessons Learned As a Novice Entrepreneur

From his first experiences as an entrepreneur, William Hagstrom, CEO of Crescendo Bioscience, relates the importance of strategy and its integration into the business model. Added to this vision, he

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Steve Blank, Stanford University

An Entrepreneur’s Checklist

No matter what business vertical you’re entering, serial entrepreneur Steve Blank outlines a few points of necessary focus for the emerging business start-up, including market opportunity, market regulations and distribution,

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Quincy Jones III, QD3 Entertainment

Chamillionaire, Music Artist & Performer

Soliciting Fan-Base Feedback

Waiting for the right deal, rather than the merchandizing deal at-hand, is a trade-off that artist/entrepreneur Chamillionaire is willing to wait for, with a keen eye toward authenticity at every

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Robin Li, Baidu

Opportunities in China at the Age of Innovation

With no business model and a company that was barely solvent, Baidu CEO Robin Li quickly realized that his customer base didn’t want to buy the best technology; only the

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Steve Perricone, BioFuelBox

In conversation with: Jennifer Scott Fonstad

Case Study: Innovation in Waste Refuse and Local Green Energy Production

Steve Perricone, Co-founder of BioFuelBox, explains how his alternative fuel company solves multiple problems in waste refuse, energy production and distribution, across multiple platforms. By converting industrial food waste into

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Vinton G. Cerf, Google

The Future of the Internet

Vinton G. Cerf, vice president and Chief Evangelist for Google, discusses the past, present, and future of the Internet. Cerf predicts that Asia's cultural influence will grow as the continent's

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William McDonough, William McDonough + Partners

Beyond Socially Responsible Business

Any “ism” is an extreme and dangerous thing, says William McDonough, McDonough + Partners. And finding that balance between capitalism, socialism, and ecologism is the engineering of good design and

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William McDonough, William McDonough + Partners

Opportunity in the Failure of Design

Any kind of government regulation on the enterprise is a signal of design failure – but also an opportunity to improve upon and grow a more efficient business archetype. McDonough

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Chip Conley, Modern Elder Academy

Using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to Redesign a Business Plan

Conley explains his own interpretation of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, learned in the context of the hospitality industry. As an entrepreneur, he realized that just as people strive to “be

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Brett Crosby, Google Analytics

The Benefit of Big

Set your business model sites to large. Think globally, use multiple languages, and build your software products to be scalable. Not only will this improve your own company's growth, says

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Jesse Fink, MissionPoint Capital Partners

In conversation with: Steve Blank

Technology as Medium, Not Content

Priceline co-founder Jesse Fink explains to entrepreneur Steve Blank how his early company was a technology-enhanced solution to a business model – and not a real technology play – that

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Mitch Kapor, Foxmarks

A Successful Business Solves Problems

A solid business model can’t survive long-term if it just draws traffic. Serial entrepreneur Mitch Kapor points out that a concrete business plan must truly offer a solution to a

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Ashwin Navin, BitTorrent

In conversation with: Ping Li

Why Investors Invest: Bit Torrent as an Example

Ping Li, Partner at Accel, talks about how they evaluated Bit Torrent as a potential venture capital investment. Li suggests that Bit Torrent possessed three things which led to the

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Ashwin Navin, BitTorrent

In conversation with: Ping Li

The Value of an Open Source Model

Ping Li, Partner at Accel, argues that open source can be an effective business model for some startups although not all startups. Li argues that the key value of an

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