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The Great Talent Vacuum Cleaner

By Mitch Kapor - Stanford
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Lecture Description

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.

Course Index

  1. Competing with Giants
  2. A Successful Business Solves Problems
  3. Disadvantages of Venture Capital
  4. Choosing an Investor
  5. The Great Talent Vacuum Cleaner
  6. The Value of Company Culture
  7. Social Responsibility from the Ground Up
  8. Balancing Information Asymmetry for the Entrepreneur