I am Tina Seelig and I play two roles here today. First, I am the host normally, but today I’m also the speaker. So I'm going to give you a little bit of my background so you know actually who am I besides of the person who usually introduces our other guests. I am the Executive Direct...
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I want to welcome you to this very, very special occasion. This is actually part of our normal class. Doesn’t this look like a normal class at Stanford? This is MS&E 472, the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture Series. And every single week we bring in really exciting speakers. Normally we're...
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The following interviews were conducted during STVP’s annual Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers, hosted at Stanford in October 2001. Five entrepreneurship center directors from leading entrepreneurship programs were invited to share their visions, successes and challenges. Th...
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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 Internet penetration rates reach European levels. He says that, while IPv6 will provide enough Intern...
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Historically, every five or ten years, entrepreneurs - which is you, primarily young people, come up with some new breakthrough: iPod, iPhones, eBay, Google, Twitter, even as big as Guitar Hero. All of a sudden, sales go through the roof. It employs people, and in theory, it makes people’s lives...
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Steve Jurvetson, partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, offers perspective on the market opportunities in innovation and technology. Topics discussed include the necessity for utter market disruption, interdisciplinary solutions, and advice for those interested in working in the venture capital arena.
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This may seem obvious to anybody studying in Stanford or anybody in Silicon Valley. But in fact, people use the term innovation so often and now use the term change, in fact, so often that many people actually tune out to it. It becomes a sound byte. It becomes something that we take for granted...
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So we’re going to talk about - so the topic of today's thing is from day one, I mean the top 10 things you need that you must have to start a business and I'm going to try to debunk some of the school and Silicon Valley and VC a little bit as we go. So #10, the first thing you need is comfortabl...
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Innovation, not instant perfection. So I think it’s been interesting to watch, as Google has scaled up, the expectations of our users and of the public of our products, because, you know, now when we launch something, you know, people immediately say, "Well, you know, it's so rough it's not very...
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So what are the best qualities of successful entrepreneurs? The most important quality that I’ve seen is a belief that you can make a difference. Now, that may sound obvious in some sense but you'd be surprised most people don't think they really make a difference. It's not important, folks. It'...
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There’s actually something more important than how you do business in emerging markets that I personally think a lot of companies aren't doing enough of, and that is really paying attention, I mean, we call it kind of the McDonald's-Starbucks factor. We literally have a pricing index. I mean, if...
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Nick Earl, General Manager of Electronic Arts Redwood Shores Studio, talks about how the General Manager’s job is to run one of EA's six studios, which are the places where they actually build the product. The GM administers and manages the portfolio of products at the site. Each product is then...
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