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Dunn talks about how the skills that she has acquired in a traditional company like Hewlett Packard will be useful in solving social problems in non-profit ventures.
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Michael Goldberg, General Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures and Founder of Axion Inc., discusses his transition from being a venture capitalist to an entrepreneur. He left the venture capital industry to found a company. As a sole founder, he encourages everybody to start a company with at least one co-founder because it entails a difficult and lonely path.
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The most successful teams and ventures demonstrate passion and the ability to solve problems and create solid business plans, Roizen says. Yet, they were not in it to get wealthy. The strength of the team was their cohesiveness, she says.
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Kathy Eisenhardt, co-director of Stanford Technology Ventures Program and professor in Management Science and Engineering, discusses the size and composition of successful teams. She recommends a team of 3-5 cross-functional people with diverse age group and experience.
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According to Adams, the biggest competitor of a start-up is a large established company. Their size alone is enough to destroy a young company, says Adams, but large companies are at a disadvantage because they're slow to act and avoid risk at all cost.
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Former Lotus 1-2-3 founder Mitch Kapor has launched a number of new ventures, and he knows firsthand the difficulty of competing with the Valley's best-known brands for top engineering and executive talent. He shares his solutions to luring the best in human resources to his door, including distributed development and opening doors elsewhere in the Golden Gate.
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In conversation with Charles River Ventures' George Zachary, Peter Diamandis, founder of the X PRIZE, describes how prizes for great, global, revolutionary achievement are a new form of philanthropy. He funds the X PRIZE with both private gifts and corporate funds, and outlines how prizes can be an efficient investment in new technologies with tremendous returns.
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Smith explains that fundraising is very hard in the non-profit sector. New Ventures typically co-invests in A rounds with other venture capital firms, typically newer groups that have an openness to thinking about new solutions and understand the power of entrepreneurs. Generally, deals are in multi-millions with clearly defined milestones over several years.
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Komisar talks about how many traditional companies like Kleiner Perkins are involved in making significant social differences. He believes that the entreprenuerial spirit and pursuit of innovation of these companies is consistent to the model of many social ventures in the market.
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Smith explains that venture philanthropy means investing in ventures that lead to greater changes in the overall system to improve education for kids. The entrepreneur is a part of a much larger system and the aim is to leverage the investments to provide the greatest possible impact. This strategy has led to three key activities at New Schools: the creation of a network to generate more hybrid leaders and inform policy makers, a charter a...more
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Smith talks about how New Ventures aims to create systems that are K-12 to provide a coherent experience to children. Incubation is important. New Schools buys run down buildings and turns them into successful schools. They do everything from recruitment to management to building, she adds.
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Brett Crosby, Google Analytics' Group Product Marketing Manager, shares a lesson from Michael E. Gerber's E-Myth series that's helped propel his business strategy: Do every job in your company, and as soon as you understand each one, hire someone else to do it. Too many ventures spend too much time simply focusing on product, and overlook this critical focus on process.
