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Competing with Giants

By Mitch Kapor - Stanford
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Lecture Description

Serial entrepreneur Mitch Kapor encourages start-ups not to compete with giants.  Instead, the young upstart should consider how it could benefit by working in concert with their giant's footsteps.  He cites as an example his own young enterprise, Foxmarks, which tracks search trends through the amalgamation of Firefox bookmarks.

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