Recruiting the Best

Lecture Description

Worthington relates an anecdote about how renowned intellectual property lawyer Bill Smith joined Fluidigm as general counsel. Worthington gave Smith the pitch before Fluidigm was even funded.  Nonetheless, Worthington notes, Smith decided to join the team with the idea that it was going to be a total train wreck, and it was going to be really fun to watch.

Course Index

1. Forming the Founding Team and Seizing the Opportunity
2. The Breakthrough Idea
3. Breaking Convention: Technology First, Market Opportunity Second
4. Building a Team and Picking the Right VCs
5. The Challenges of Building a Company
6. Product Development
7. Keeping a Financial Focus
8. Raising Money and Recognizing Interest in VCs
9. Can You Continually Increase Value?
10. Recruiting the Best
11. Challenges of Managing: Firing People
12. How to Recruit Top Talent
13. To MBA or Not?: Technical Degree or MBA
14. Envisioning the Future: Other Potential Applications of the Technology
15. Lowest Lows and Highest Highs
16. Going Global: Why Singapore?
17. Founding Team: Technical or Business Saavy?
18. Experimenting with New Technologies
19. Finding a Market
20. Disposable vs. Reusable in Biology
21. Establishing a Market
22. How Do You Establish a Decision-Making Process?