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A Successful Business Solves Problems

By Mitch Kapor - Stanford
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Lecture Description

A solid business model can't survive long-term if it just draws traffic.  Serial entrepreneur Mitch Kapor points out that a concrete business plan must truly offer a solution to a well-worn market conundrum.  While a flash-in-the-pan Facebook app may draw millions of users in minutes, without staying power it's not viable long term.

Course Index

  1. Competing with Giants
  2. A Successful Business Solves Problems
  3. Disadvantages of Venture Capital
  4. Choosing an Investor
  5. The Great Talent Vacuum Cleaner
  6. The Value of Company Culture
  7. Social Responsibility from the Ground Up
  8. Balancing Information Asymmetry for the Entrepreneur