In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the fall and working on a project that a number of people suggested I get in touch with you about.” Ok, I get a lot of these. Is this some grad student or post doc who wanted to do some [...]
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Om Malik runs Gigaom, probably the most interesting and technically accurate sites on the blogosphere. He had me in for an interview. We covered a wide range of topics. 0:22 – the Entrepreneurial explosion 1:45 – Are we in a Bubble? 3:20 - The Last Bubble 6:30 – Rules for the New Bubble 8:05 – Metrics [...]
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany (Les quatre étapes vers l’épiphanie) is now available in French. Order it from the Bookediton.com (Search for Les quatre étapes vers l’épiphanie) Thanks to Antoine Bruyns for making the French version happen. It joins the Japanese version (アントレプレナーの教科書 [単行本（ソフトカバー）available on Amazon. Thanks to Tsutsumi Takashi for making it happen in Japanese. Collect the set!
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I am honored to be with you as we gather to celebrate your graduation from Philadelphia University. While I teach at Stanford and Berkeley, to be honest… this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. I realize that my 15 minutes up here is all that’s between you and the rest or [...]
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The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This last post – part nine – highlights the final team presentations. Parts one through eight, the class lectures, are here, Guide for our mentors is here. Syllabus is here. This is the End Class lectures were over last week, but [...]
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The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This post – part eight – was the last formal lecture. Parts one through seven of the lectures are here, Syllabus is here. While this is the last lecture, the teams still have one more week to work on their companies, [...]
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