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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So these are the steps to take when you’re entering a new global market. So I start by assuming I'm not nearly as smart as I think I am and talk to people who actually live there. And in particular, having done it for a while now, I'm now aware of some things to ask questions about and to worry ...
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Well, Kids, I’m back out at Indian Motorcycle Corona, selling bikes again. Here's my new office, and here are all the super clean bikes we have in stock. If you are looking for a clean, pre-owned Harley, I'd love to sell you one, and if you know a friend or relative who might be in the market, t...
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I was working on these tablet computers and then I got this other second bug. I got the neuroscience thing going, and the second one was that I realized that in the future that everyone is going to have a personal computer that fits in their pocket that that would be the primary computing device...
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The third thing, and I’ve already alluded to this a bit here, is you really need to - in my case I found it very, very helpful to get support from people. Involve people in your problems. So many entrepreneurs sit down and say, "Ok, I've got this idea I'm going to keep it secret." Right? I can't...
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Great. So how many people are at the company now? Soujanya Bhumkar: We are right now around 34 full timers who we actually call as more than full time, and Austin and Kevin are all the time. Then we have another big gang of about 25 interns who we call as Party Teammates. I can see actually, se...
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So let’s talk first about the enterprise productivity piece of this. This is really the cycle we're in. Now I'll get to this in a minute. Unfortunately, it's the cycle that we're at the maturation phase of which is why it doesn't feel like everything is going up right now. But this was really fu...
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So because the way we make money today is physical-producing and we’re a printer, we're using paper and ink, so how are we thinking about sustainability and environmental. One of the interesting things, let me start on the business side then I'll go to the environmental side, is going b...
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Now, I would also like to announce that I just signed into law a bill that will help grow our economy, save and create new jobs and provide relief to struggling families and businesses. The need for such a measure was made clear by the jobs report that we received this morning. Although we lost ...
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OK, so this is all about turning problems to opportunities, looking at the world as opportunity-rich, basically making something from nothing. But you know what? Being an entrepreneur is much more than just that. That’s the tip of the iceberg, or might be the core of the iceberg, but there are l...
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