On 3/17/08, Stanford Technology Ventures Program <support@stvp1.stanford.edu> wrote:
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Quick Shots
Spend just two minutes and a few odd seconds to learn bright ideas to build, grow, or sustain your entrepreneurial drive. These bite-sized, informative videos offer a fast jolt to your fast-tracking career.
Stan Christensen, Stanford Technology Ventures Program; Arbor Advisors | Dan Springer, Responsys - 2 min. 1 sec.
Video: Negotiating with Customers and Clients
Dan Springer, CEO of Responsys, acknowledges that the most frequent and important negotiations often occur with customers. Furthermore, Springer advises that the keys to a successful negotiation with customers include: 1) Preparation to discover what the customer wants and 2) Identifying the few things on which you will stand firm.
Marissa Mayer, Google - 2 min. 2 sec.
Video: Don't Kill Projects; Morph Them
Repackage, rejuvenate, re-market, and re-examine those products or practices you thought would fly, and craft them a new set of wings. Head of Google product development Marissa Mayer lives by the old adage that if at first you don't succeed, try again. She pushes aspiring business thinkers to breathe new life into failed ventures, as opposed to cutting the cord.
Vinod Khosla, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers - 2 min. 26 sec.
Video: Taking Risks
Launching a start-up is not a rational act. And Vinod Khosla, a partner in Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and former Sun Microsystems CEO, believes that success only comes from those who are foolish enough to think unreasonably. Entrepreneurs need to stretch themselves beyond convention and constraint to reach something extraordinary.
New Podcasts
From medical devices to social responsibility, corporate acquisitions to personal tales of trial and triumph, our speakers share their collective wisdom and decades of business savvy.
Debra Dunn, Skoll Foundation | Jay Coen Gilbert, B Corporation | Bart Houlahan, B Corporation | Andrew Kassoy, B Corporation - 50 min. 56 sec.
Podcast: Representing the Socially Responsible Enterprise
The co-founders of B Lab, Jay Coen Gilbert, Bart Houlahan, and Andrew Kassoy, unveil their infrastructure play that seeks to give voice to the burgeoning panoply of green business. They explain how a higher set of corporate standards accountable to the environment, employees, and the community, can craft a healthier corporate ecosystem for all.
Mir Imran, InCube Labs - 54 min. 28 sec.
Podcast: Healthy Entrepreneurship in Medical Devices
Parallel entrepreneur Mir Imran, CEO of InCube Labs, has launched twenty companies - at times simultaneously. He shares his solutions-focused expertise and identifies the vitality and growth of the biomedical healthcare vertical.
Brett Crosby, Google Analytics - 1 h 1 min. 5 sec.
Podcast: The Path to an Acquisition
Brett Crosby, Group Manager of Google Analytics, describes the ebb and flow of the process by which his web analytics company, Urchin, was acquired by Google. He also shares some inspirational lessons in making small business loom large.
Educators Corner, a project of Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University, is a collection of recordings from hundreds of Silicon Valley's most practiced entrepreneurs and thought leaders. The collection offers over 1,200 videos and podcasts, freely available to the public.
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