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Career: Learning from Failure Early On

By Vinod Khosla - Stanford
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Lecture Description

Khosla talks about his early career development. He first tried to do a company in India based on milk from soybeans. He travelled to Carnegie Mellon, and then to Stanford University. He describes why persistence and evangelism are important. Although he was not admitted to Stanford at first, saught more real-world experience, and was not admitted again, through persuasion and persistence, he was finally accepted.

Course Index

  1. Bit by the Entrepreneurship Bug
  2. Career: Learning from Failure Early On
  3. Taking Risks
  4. Build a Company to Change the World
  5. Company Building to Change the World
  6. Role of VC in Valuation
  7. When You Don't Know What You Don't Know
  8. Vinod Khosla: Envisioning the Future
  9. Any Big Problem is a Big Opportunity
  10. Think Big and Act Small
  11. Technology as Driver of Change
  12. Social Entrepreneurship
  13. Strength of a Team
  14. Juniper Systems: Customer Feedback
  15. Entrepreneurship is the Driving Engine of the Economy
  16. Cycles of Fear and Greed
  17. Career Development: Go Deep
  18. Right Time to Build the Team
  19. Great CEOs Build Great Teams
  20. To Get an MBA, or Not?