Stanford = engineering + venture capital
We all know Stanford was the birthplace of HP, Cisco, Google, Yahoo. Did you know that in a 2011 survey, it was determined that 39K+ companies can trace their roots to the school. If those companies formed a country, it would have the 10th largest economy in the world. Uh, yeah.
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
This is a speaker series they have run since 2002. Many alumni and friends of the school come and share their stories and advice. You will recognize many of the companies and speaker names. While it spans all industries, it is definitely has an engineering, innovation, and entrepreneurial bent. Lots of discussion on picking the right team, scaling the enterprise, and working with venture capitalists.
- Mark Zuckerberg. This talk is from 2005, only 1 year after he founded Facebook and right after moving to Palo Alto.
- Daniel Ek Founder of Spotify. Brilliant, completely disrupting the music industry. Real futurist, 2012.
- Marissa Mayer. When a VP at Google, not yet CEO of Yahoo. Mastermind behind Google’s clean home page, 2006.
- Tom Kelley. Founder of legendary innovation design firm, IDEO, 2008.
- David Baszucki, Founder of Roblux, platform for player-generated games, 2018.
- John Hennessey, President of Stanford University, 2016.
- Scott Cook, Founder of Intuit, 2015.
- Ben Horowitz, founder of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, 2014.
- Tina Seelig, Stanford professor and mastermind of this entire podcast series, 2014.
successful entrepreneurs
This advice is free. These hour-long talks are recorded on video, but they are just as good listened to by podcast here. Perfect for those airplane trips and airport waits when your opportunity cost is zero.
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything learned in school” – Albert Einstein
Thanks for these links. I’d heard just one of the talks before, but didn’t realize there’s such a huge library of them on the eCorner site.
If you like watching dynamic speakers, here are a few from my blog, about presenting:
http://remotepossibilities.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/analog-presentation-tips-1-use-a-flipchart/
http://remotepossibilities.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/analog-presentation-tips-2-use-a-prop/
http://remotepossibilities.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/boost-testosterone-present-better/
Also, a question about your site: I use the same theme as you, so I’m wondering which widget or other method you used to put all those images in the footer? (It was only by seeing your site that I realized I could make the header image on my own blog less than about 290 pixels tall. Thanks for the inspiration!)
Craig, Thanks for your comments and links. Went to your blog and saw lots of good instruction and tips. Presenting is certainly a science and art, and glad you tackling that.
The Stanford speakers are not the most polished (it is a classroom, not a TED conference), but they have lots of substance, and gritty insights about entrepreneurship.
The images at the bottom are a widget called Top Posts (by Image). Cheers.
Thanks for checking out my blog.
The Stanford speech I’d heard before was by Olivia Fox Cabane, on charisma. If you haven’t seen that one, I highly recommend it. (Its content is useful for any kind of speaking, not just in public.)
After seeing your blog, I’ve now also added a list of recent comments, posts, and popular posts to my footer. Previously, I didn’t realise that the footer (unlike the sidebar) shows up on every post, as well as on the home page. Neat! Thanks again.