Thirty Years War
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Kawasaki provides advice about foundation, priorities, financing, key employees, getting the word out, leveraging resources, scope, business development, raison d'etre, and the big picture. For example, a few years ago, cleverness was the priority, he says. Today, expertise in technology is important and entrepreneurs should be thinking of making the world a better place, he adds.
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Over the last three years, Autodesk had to change delivery times due to customers' faster delivery demand. Autodesk was able to move forward using software as service, thinking about process, and innovating in an established company.
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Returning to talk at Stanford after two years, John Thompson, chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Symantec Corporation, talks about the changes in the technology sector and the enterprise software space.
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Exit strategies are less clear than they use to be to 10 years ago, says Estrin. She talks about the cycles that exit strategies went through. IPO and acquisitions are both tough in today's market. People need to have patience and plan for time to liquidity, she adds.
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Fodor understands the dilemma of creating technology for a non-existent market. However, he has seen over the years that as the technology has evolved, the market begin to revolve around it. His key to success? Staying in front of it at all times.
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Genentech and Vaxgen have spent a total of 20 years and $300 million on developing the vaccine, says Francis, but there is still a long way to go. Francis discusses some of the difficulties they have faced along the way.
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Goldberg talks about the point when he sold the company that he had built for nine years. He goes on to reveal that he would do the same thing then if he knew what he knows today. He says he was happy he sold the company to a bigger company who earned larger revenues on it.
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Thompson talks about how Symantec was looking at changing from a software business to a content business. He shares the history about the marriage between Symantec and other companies that they have acquired over the years.
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As a company grows and develops, it is possible that its methods for design and production change, says Levinson. The company may also look to new avenues of possible innovations. He describes the changes Finisar has seen over the years.
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Scott stresses the role of the market and the benefits of leveraging its power to grow rapidly. He describes how Juniper grew to be a $1 Billion company within 3 years.
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Williams believes that podcasting has just begun and that it is going to grow in the coming years. He explains that people are now only in the 'geocities' phase where they know how to access content but do not know why to do so or do so on an ongoing basis.
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This lecture focuses on the role of white southern terrorist violence in brining about the end of Reconstruction. Professor Blight begins with an account the Colfax Massacre. Colfax, Louisiana was the sight of the largest mass murder in U.S. history, when a white mob killed dozens of African Americans in the April of 1873. Two Supreme Court decisions would do in the judicial realm what the Colfax Massacre had done in the political. On the ...more
