Startups Venture Capital Decisionmaking [Entire Talk] Annie Kadavy, Redpoint Ventures with Tina Seelig, Stanford University Watch Now 47 minutes Video
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Clip 3 of 7 Clip 3 of 7 from: How to Know if Entrepreneurship is For You [Entire Talk] Eurie Kim, Forerunner Ventures Founder vs. Founding Team Member Forerunner Ventures General Partner Eurie Kim describes the skills and traits needed to be on a startup's founding team, as well as the pros and cons. You must have a unique expertise that complements the team and accept that your stake in the company is lower than that of the actual founders. You don't feel as much pressure, and yet you learn to be a founder, according to Kim. The downside is, often, much lower equity in the company.
Clip 2 of 7 Clip 2 of 7 from: How to Know if Entrepreneurship is For You [Entire Talk] Eurie Kim, Forerunner Ventures The Traits of Great Founders Venture capitalist Eurie Kim lists the qualities needed to be a founder. Beyond the requisite traits - initiative, passion and thinking like an inventor - great founders must be magnetic, disciplined and truly visionary. "I am not in the business of funding good companies," says Kim, a general partner at Forerunner Ventures. "Venture capital is only successful on outliers." She says the drawbacks of being a founder include extreme pressure and loneliness.
Eurie Kim, Forerunner Ventures How to Know if Entrepreneurship is For You [Entire Talk] Be honest about how much uncertainty you can live with before founding a venture. There are many ways to be entrepreneurial, and your heart will tell you when the time is right. × Close Video Clips Eurie Kim, Forerunner Ventures How to Know if Entrepreneurship is For You [Entire Talk] Be honest about how much uncertainty you can live with before founding a venture. There are many ways to be entrepreneurial, and your heart will tell you when the time is right. Video Clips 1 minutes The Right Way to Network 5 minutes The Traits of Great Founders 2 minutes Founder vs. Founding Team Member 2 minutes Early-Stage Startups Need Generalists 2 minutes High-Growth Means Hectic Work 3 minutes Who's Best Suited for a Big Company? 4 minutes What's Your Risk Threshold? View Video Clips
Chris Anderson, 3D Robotics The Ups and Downs of a Drone Startup Admit defeat when it's inevitable, understand why and let those lessons inform your strategy and next steps. See open innovation as a tool for disruption.
Chris Anderson, 3D Robotics The Ups and Downs of a Drone Startup [Entire Talk] Admit defeat when it's inevitable, understand why and let those lessons inform your strategy and next steps. See open innovation as a tool for disruption. × Close Video Clips Chris Anderson, 3D Robotics The Ups and Downs of a Drone Startup [Entire Talk] Admit defeat when it's inevitable, understand why and let those lessons inform your strategy and next steps. See open innovation as a tool for disruption. Video Clips 3 minutes Hard Lessons in Hardware 3 minutes Innovation Through Openness 4 minutes Comparing Open-Source Software Licenses 3 minutes Flying Under the Radar 4 minutes How Quickly Fortunes Turn View Video Clips
Clip 7 of 7 Clip 7 of 7 from: Focus On People [Entire Talk] Sameer Dholakia, SendGrid Find Alignment on Values SendGrid CEO Sameer Dholakia talks about how an entrepreneur's most important task at the outset, given the intensity of startups at the early stage, is to choose co-founders who share your values. He says to be equally careful when choosing investors, and to base that decision more on the strength of the relationship, less on factors like the investment firm's worth or popularity.
Clip 4 of 7 Clip 4 of 7 from: Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work [Entire Talk] Leila Janah, Samasource Dispelling Western Paternalism Samasource Founder and CEO Leila Janah describes how villagers with the wherewithal to survive on a dollar a day possess all the talent and initiative needed for digital work. She recounts how Samasource's first data-services center started as a four-station Internet cafe, and how it has since grown to a network of 2,000 full-time workers across east Africa.
Clip 1 of 7 Clip 1 of 7 from: Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work [Entire Talk] Leila Janah, Samasource Work on What Matters Most Leila Janah, whose social enterprise Samasource has allowed 45,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the world move out of poverty through fair-wage digital work, implores aspiring entrepreneurs to launch startups that have an impact beyond making "an incremental change in the lives of rich people." In the long run, the most valuable companies will be those that make the biggest social and environmental contributions, Janah says.
Leila Janah, Samasource Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work [Entire Talk] Get out in the world to understand society's biggest challenges and where your efforts are most needed. × Close Video Clips Leila Janah, Samasource Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work [Entire Talk] Get out in the world to understand society's biggest challenges and where your efforts are most needed. Video Clips 1 minutes Work on What Matters Most 2 minutes What Fair-Trade Needs to Do Next 3 minutes Putting a Face on Consumer Products 3 minutes Dispelling Western Paternalism 3 minutes Social Mission First 4 minutes Challenging the Charity Model 4 minutes Seeing Potential in the Most Poor View Video Clips
Leila Janah, Samasource Reversing Poverty By Giving People Work Get out in the world to understand society's biggest challenges and where your efforts are most needed.
Clip 5 of 5 Clip 5 of 5 from: Ingenuity Derived from Self-Driving Cars [Entire Talk] Chris Gerdes, Stanford University Be Bold and Nimble Stanford mechanical engineering Professor Chris Gerdes explains his team's research comparing the performance of their automated vehicle, Shelley, versus two professional race car drivers. The humans had a slight edge over Shelley because they drove their car to its limits and adapted to the path that opened up in the moment - an insight entrepreneurs should heed, Gerdes says.
Clip 2 of 3 Clip 2 of 3 from: Food Fight To Turn Back Climate Change [Entire Talk] Patrick Brown, Impossible Foods Immediate Impact Through Entrepreneurship Impossible Foods Founder and CEO Patrick Brown discusses how his decision to leave academia and become an entrepreneur was based on his passion to make the greatest impact he possibly could with his work. He says launching a business wasn't his first instinct for addressing the environmental harm caused by cattle, but he realized a startup was the quickest way to get a solution to market and gauge success.
Clip 1 of 3 Clip 1 of 3 from: Food Fight To Turn Back Climate Change [Entire Talk] Patrick Brown, Impossible Foods The Learning Curve for Pitching Secure funding by selling the size of the market and the potential for impact.
Clip 4 of 6 Clip 4 of 6 from: Entrepreneurs Keep Pushing [Entire Talk] Amy Chang, Cisco Confront Your Concerns Accompany CEO Amy Chang talks about paying attention to concerns that stick with you day after day and finding ways to confront and act on them. She reflects on the eight years she spent launching and leading Google's analytics division, and how torn she was about leaving. Internally, we already know what needs to be done, Chang says. It's just that change can be scary.
Clip 1 of 6 Clip 1 of 6 from: Entrepreneurs Keep Pushing [Entire Talk] Amy Chang, Cisco Choose Board Members Wisely Amy Chang, whose startup uses artificial intelligence to help professionals manage business relationships, says entrepreneurs should give serious thought to who they pick to sit on their board of directors. Board members typically serve for seven to 10 years, so it's important to know if they can weather the ups and downs of a startup, says Chang, founder and CEO of Accompany.
Clip 8 of 9 Clip 8 of 9 from: Making Technology Less Manipulative [Entire Talk] Tristan Harris, Time Well Spent The Persuadable Brain Ask yourself, is there a gap between your values and your metrics? Do your metrics for success undermine or support your most altruistic and aspirational goals?
Clip 5 of 9 Clip 5 of 9 from: Making Technology Less Manipulative [Entire Talk] Tristan Harris, Time Well Spent An Arms Race for Your Attention Pay attention to incentives. What is the actual thing that you are beholden to? Everything else is an aspirational myth. The metrics you are beholden to dictate every element of your organization.
Rich Barton, Zillow Group Empower People with Information Find ways to help people make better decisions. Harness technology to increase transparency and access information.
Clip 4 of 7 Clip 4 of 7 from: Empower People with Information [Entire Talk] Rich Barton, Zillow Group Maintaining Cohesiveness at Scale Zillow Group Co-Founder Rich Barton talks about processes that startups must put in place as their workforce grows into the hundreds. Despite their bureaucratic reputation, certain practices that maintain a clarity of mission and culture of collegiality are critical for larger companies in order for them to stay driven and focused on success, according to Barton, the co-founder of Expedia, Glassdoor and the Zillow Group of real-estate sites.
Clip 3 of 7 Clip 3 of 7 from: Empower People with Information [Entire Talk] Rich Barton, Zillow Group The Rise of ‘Smart Assistants’ Rich Barton, co-founder of popular sites such as Expedia, Zillow and Glassdoor, says the deluge of information and options confronting consumers has given rise to a major business opportunity: "smart assistants" that can sift through everything, make recommendations, and even anticipate what we want. Consumers have grown accustomed to immediacy in the digital age, Barton notes.
Rich Barton, Zillow Group Empower People with Information [Entire Talk] Find ways to help people make better decisions. Harness technology to increase transparency and access information. × Close Video Clips Rich Barton, Zillow Group Empower People with Information [Entire Talk] Find ways to help people make better decisions. Harness technology to increase transparency and access information. Video Clips 5 minutes Engineering Isn't Everything 2 minutes A Question of Control 2 minutes The Rise of 'Smart Assistants' 4 minutes Maintaining Cohesiveness at Scale 4 minutes Wisdom via ‘The Wizard of Oz' 1 minutes Our Need for Autonomy 4 minutes Hatching a BHAG View Video Clips
Clip 6 of 6 Clip 6 of 6 from: The Rewards of Taking Risks [Entire Talk] Sandy Jen, Honor Curing the Imposter Syndrome Challenges can seem less intimidating when you see someone you can relate to take them on, explains Sandy Jen, co-founder of senior-care startup Honor. She recalls how witnessing her boyfriend in college embracing entrepreneurship wholeheartedly began to melt the fears and insecurities she grew up with - and emboldened her to become an "unlikely entrepreneur" herself.
Clip 5 of 6 Clip 5 of 6 from: The Rewards of Taking Risks [Entire Talk] Sandy Jen, Honor Draw Confidence from Your Accomplishments When you doubt your abilities or expertise, remembering all the hard work you've done to date can be a source of confidence, says entrepreneur Sandy Jen. She describes how plagued with doubt she was while launching her first startup, and how she built up a reservoir of courage by taking stock of her accomplishments along the way, which helped her get through especially stressful times.
Clip 4 of 6 Clip 4 of 6 from: The Rewards of Taking Risks [Entire Talk] Sandy Jen, Honor Let Your Ideas Run Naked Sandy Jen, co-founder of senior-care startup Honor, talks about how young entrepreneurs often keep their ideas to themselves so others won't steal them. But, referencing the metaphor of projects as the "babies" we want to hold tight and protect, Jen notes that all infants love to run around naked. "Ideas don't grow in a vacuum," she says. "Ideas only improve if you get feedback."