Tim Draper, Partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, suggests that entrepreneurs are heroes because they are the real change agents in the world. Although politicians often recognize and propose programs to address problems, it is most often entrepreneurs who actually fix problems by taking big risks...
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Tony Perkins: So just on the iPhone platform itself, there’s a whole... Tim Draper: New marketplace. Tony Perkins: ...new marketplace of brands waiting to happen and get Draper money and take off. Tim Draper: Yeah. Make it different enough. Make it something that the iPhone's never be...
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Tim Draper, Partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, argues that the pace of technical change and adoption is increasing. This increasing rate of change is driven both by a growing customer base connected to the Internet as well as the growing number of entrepreneurs who are able to participate in gl...
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Draper discusses why the DFJ Network was formed. The DFJ Network is looking for 'heroes' with passion and energy to lead a business to change the way the world works.
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Tim Draper, Founder and co-Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, compares entrepreneurs to 'heroes and heroines' who are willing to take huge risks to work for an extraordinary outcome.
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So we are at a really interesting time in the world. Technology always moves exponentially. If you think about it evolution, computation, storage, bandwidth, Internet, genes mapped, MRI scan resolution, they are moving exponentially. All of these technologies have continued on this very fast gro...
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Tim Draper: There’s one other thing that's really important to think about during this kind of time. I call it "the deal". I was talking to my daughter and she said, "Why do you make a deal?" I compared it to shopping and suddenly her eyes lit up which was kind of funny. But in shopping you're m...
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Tony Perkins: So again, back to this idea. I think there’s been a huge behavioral change. I'll give you an example of a statistic, which I think is really interesting. Somewhere between 30% and 40% of the time that we're consuming media and content we're on the Internet. Yet, we just had our on ...
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Tim Draper: If you’re entrepreneurs out there, don't waste your time on a small problem. Go after a big problem. Go after something really important. Say, "Gee, this seems to be something that a lot of..." God! Start a new kind of bank. Go after something that really matters to people because if...
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Tim Draper: So I think this is one of the great opportunities of the world, that we’ve ever had in our lifetime. First of all, there are natural cycles where there tends to be job creation, job destruction, job creation, job destruction. And those same cycles actually go with the private equity ...
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