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Competing with Giants: It's All about Speed

By Dominic Orr - Stanford
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Lecture Description

Dominic Orr, CEO of Aruba Networks, describes how a startup can compete with large, established companies. Orr argues that to compete with large companies an entrepreneurial firm must think about the ecosystem created by the larger companies and then identify the problems in that system that the larger companies are unable to address. Once an opportunity has been identified, a startup's single advantage is speed: because established firms have different incentives that lead to inertia, large firms are often unable to match the speed and flexibility of a startup.

Course Index

  1. Transferring Big Company Culture to Startups
  2. Competing with Giants: It's All about Speed
  3. Differences between Going Public in the Dot-com and Post Dot-com Eras
  4. Private versus Public Company Tradeoffs: Building Credibility
  5. Seeking Advice and Guidance as a CEO
  6. Working With and Making Decisions with Great People
  7. Work-Life Balance for Driven People
  8. Silicon Valley Compared to the World
  9. Differences between Student Life and Professional Life
  10. Challenges in Cracking Big Markets
  11. Selling High-Tech Products and Services to an Executive Team
  12. Lessons from Applying the HP Way to Startups
  13. The Benefits of Advanced Technical Training