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  1. Abstract Data Types, Wall of Abstraction, Why ADTs?, Live Coding Example: Creating the Vector Class, Private Data Members, Growing Dynamically: Making Space at Runtime, Insert and Remove Functions, Templatizing the Class Created, Including the "template.cpp" - Why?

  2. Launching the product with T-Mobile helped get the product out on the market and got others interested in the technology, making it easier for Danger to acquire other partners.  Still, it was important for Danger not to be seen as a outsource development shop of T-Mobile and so they took steps to maintain control.

  3. Bloom talks about his relationship with the board of Podshow as an ongoing dynamic one. They spend a lot of time with each other discussing issues as a healthy debate. A good board is one who is able to give advice at the right time and help in making connections. He also believes that the camaraderie of the board with each other is important.

  4. Kim describes her own path into game development at EA. She majored in film making as an undergraduate, started working in management consulting, and then decided to start a web-design company. Afterward she acquired an MBA and joined a startup company. Later on, she joined EA online in an entry-level position.

  5. Savi Technology has been called an overnight success 15 years in the making. Vic Verma, president and CEO of Savi Technology, talks about what he wanted to do as a Stanford student, the path that led him to Savi, and Savi's various clients and purpose.

  6. Everything at Google has turned out perfectly, making it hard to determine which decisions were good and which were bad. Co-founder Larry Page remarks that they could have started the company earlier, but were working on their PhD's.  Also, it would have been difficult to achieve the same thing five years ago because the market was not as advanced -- and technology was more expensive and less established.

  7. Number 1 in Frank Levinson's Top 10 Things You Must Have to Start a Business. Levinson claims that the people you work with and your team are key in making your business successful. He explains the factors that should go into choosing your partner

  8. Whatever you build, says Kawasaki, it's about passion, and less about money. Your goals should be about changing the world, or making the world a better place, he says. He also talks about his experience growing up thinking that money was the most important thing in life. He advises students to study abroad and to spend as much time learning as possible.

  9. I build companies, it's what I love to do, says Neeleman. I want to build a legacy--something that will last for a long time, he says. We came up with a simple model of bringing humanity back to air travel, and making a difference, he adds. Becoming a better company, being the best in a really bad industry, is his mission.

  10. We're living in the YouTube world, say documentary film Tapestries of Hope creators Michealene C. Risley and Anand Chandrasekaran. While the statistics are stacked against their film making money, these seasoned cinematic entrepreneurs say still possible to find investors willing to support their core mission and bolster their passion.

  11. Winblad advises entrepreneurs to boil down their business plan and tell everyone in the company the top five assumptions for success.  As time goes on, turn the assumptions into facts, she says. Understand the core assumptions you are making and keep reevaluating them, she adds.

  12. According to Hoffman, working as if you will succeed, getting to failure points and measuring them as early as possible, making a timely entry and exit into the market, taking controlled risks and finally, solving the easiest problems and not the most complex ones are some of the most fundamental principles of entrepreneurship.