Description
Stanford instructor and seasoned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank looks back at the commonalities and quirks of the quarter's previous speakers. Blank outlines a thorough checklist of questions and analysis helpful to any new enterprise leader, and offers insight and case studies from industry giants and new technology plays alike.
Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in high technology companies and management. He is a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Graduate School of Engineering STVP Program.
Steve has been a founder or participant in eight Silicon Valley startups since 1978. His last company, E.piphany, started in his living room. His other startups include two semiconductor companies (Zilog and MIPS Computers), a workstation company (Convergent Technologies), a supercomputer firm (Ardent), a computer peripheral supplier (SuperMac), a military intelligence systems supplier (ESL) and a video game company (Rocket Science Games).
Steve is on the board of CafePress.com, an on-line marketplace, and IMVU, a 3D IM social network.
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Evangelizing for the Lean Startup
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Speaker, author, and entrepreneur Eric Ries shares rapid fire wisdom on building nimble, responsive, and efficient online software-based businesses. He also offers his wisdom on streamlining processes and progressing engineering systems, and puts forth front line insight into why some new ideas succeed where others have failed.
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Speaker, author, and entrepreneur Eric Ries shares rapid fire wisdom on building nimble, responsive, and efficient online software-based businesses. He also offers his wisdom on streamlining processes and progressing engineering systems, and puts forth front line insight into why some new ideas succeed where others have failed.
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What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
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Tina Seelig - Stanford Technology Ventures Program's Executive Director shares rich insights in creative thinking and the entrepreneurial mindset.
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Tina Seelig - Stanford Technology Ventures Program's Executive Director shares rich insights in creative thinking and the entrepreneurial mindset.
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- The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity
- Don't Wait to be Anointed
- Fail Fast and Frequently
- Never miss an opportunity to be fabulous
Friday, 20 November 2009
What really motivates people?
Dan Pink gets to explain what science knows about incentives and awards and what the business seems to keep ignoring time and time again! Seems that autonomy is a much greater motivator than we understand.
Watch his presentation at TED from July 2009 to get a taste for what he is thinking.
More about Motivation on:
http://www.danpink.com/archives/category/motivation
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
Watch his presentation at TED from July 2009 to get a taste for what he is thinking.
More about Motivation on:
http://www.danpink.com/archives/category/motivation
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
Monday, 9 November 2009
OpenAgile Presentations
OpenAgile Process Overview and Benefits
http://www.openagile.com/OpenAgilePresentations
The OpenAgile Primer:
http://www.openagile.com/TheOpenAgilePrimer
http://www.openagile.com/OpenAgilePresentations
The OpenAgile Primer:
http://www.openagile.com/TheOpenAgilePrimer
The Scrum Checklist
Very useful checklist, specially for beginners in SCRUM.
Just register on InfoQ then you can read the online version.
http://www.infoq.com/books/scrum-checklists
Just register on InfoQ then you can read the online version.
http://www.infoq.com/books/scrum-checklists
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