This is from Stanford’s ecorner videos, with the following summary: Though Randy Komisar, KPCB partner and seasoned entrepreneur, proposes that most successful ventures do not find success in their initial business idea, he still maintains there is value in constructing a thoughtful initial plan. Any “Plan A” must flesh out your business’ assumptions, challenges, and [...]
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This is a good less-than-four-minute reminder of Five Solid Startup Lessons, taken from Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner. The speaker is Aaron Levie, who founded Box.net from his dorm room. The five lessons, by the way, are: 1) Do something that was not possible three years ago, 2) Do something you are extremely passionate about, 3) Don’t [...]
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It may not be useful, but then few surveys really are, and at least this one is a lot of fun. That’s Survey: 75% of iPhone Users Have a Wholly Inappropriate Relationship With Their Phones as reported by Dan Nosowitz on his Fast Company blog. The survey in question was done at Stanford by a [...]
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I received an intriguing e-mail today, well-written and thoughtful, from someone considering going for an MBA degree and asking my advice about it. Here’s a portion of it (quoted exactly): I’ve been thinking about developing some actual products for sale; but basically I have about a million ideas and as I trudge forth, I am [...]
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Do what you love and the money will follow? That’s been true for me in my life. And within reason, at least, it might be for you, too. Watch the video. Let Guy Kawasaki explain. (And if you don’t see that here, then click here to go to the source.) This three-minute reminder from Kawasaki [...]
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I posted an iPhone app success story here a couple of days ago. Following up on that, if you want, you can now get an iTunes video podcast version of a Stanford University course on how to build iPhone apps. To find it on iTunes, go to the iTunes store, search for Stanford, find the [...]
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An angel investor is someone who loves to take a lot of risk, who (it is hoped) has a lot of industry expertise, who invests $50,000 or $100,000 in raw startups. This was recorded at a conference last month. It’s a good review of angel investment from two experts. Although I’ve got the video embedded [...]
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If you’re around the San Francisco Bay area on these dates, Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Week has been a very useful event in the past. This year it’s Feb. 18 through 25. That’s Wednesday to Wednesday.
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I’m on the email list for these videos and this one seems particularly important and encouraging. The introduction on the site says: Toss the old notions of environmentalism into the recycling bin. Investor Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures shatters conventional wisdom of energy reduction, and instead encourages entrepreneurs to solve environmental problems via cost-effective, innovative, [...]
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