Recently Added STVP Entrepreneurship Corner Materials

Podcast: Young at Heart: How to Be an Innovator for Life - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Stanford Technology Ventures Program — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Tom Kelley, general manager at the world-renowned design firm, IDEO, presents five core practices that enhance creativity. Through entertaining stories and examples, he describes how these techniques help us all become more innovative in every aspect of our lives and lead to more success.

Video Clips:
Innovation Made Personal
Orbiting the Giant Hairball
Thinking Like a Traveler
Field Observations with Fresh Eyes
Treat Life As an Experiment
Cultivating an Attitude of Wisdom
Case Study: Best Buy's Failure to See Napster
Using Your Whole Brain
Do What You Love

Stanford Technology Ventures Program — Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

As a research scientist at Stanford University, Anna Patterson committed herself to indexing the world's online information. Her latest venture, Cuil (pronounced "cool") is a search engine that is challenging Google. She explains how she is using her experience with startups and non-profits to take on her former employer.

Video Clips:
The Mission-Driven Start-Up
New Opportunities in Search Engine Technology
Don't Sell Yourself - Or Your Product - Short
Value in User Click Rates
Irish Pub Culture

Stanford Technology Ventures Program — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

JLabs LLC CEO and author Judy Estrin puts the processes and philosophies of innovation under the microscope. Her current analysis indicates that we're short-changing the business arena and culture at large, as we've stopped planting the seeds for true, monumental invention and problem-solving.

Video Clips:
Don't Take Innovation for Granted
Three Types of Innovation
Diversity in Innovation
Factors that Impact Innovation
The Benefits of Constructive Failure
The Price of the Decline of Innovation

Stanford Technology Ventures Program — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Toss the old notions of environmentalism into the recycling bin. Investor Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures shatters conventional wisdom of energy reduction, and instead encourages entrepreneurs to solve environmental problems via cost-effective, innovative, and scalable engineering.

Video Clips:
Emerging Energy Solutions Must Compete on Price
Broad Environmental Solutions Require Brawny Change
Shaping the Future with Entrepreneurship
Problem-Solving Paradigm
Stock Prices Are Irrelevant
Book Recommendations for Entrepreneurs

Stanford Technology Ventures Program — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

How do we love all of the children of all species for all time? The unlikely answer comes from architect, materials designer, VC, and eco-efficiency expert William McDonough, who sees the challenge of cycling biological and technical "nutrients" as industry's ultimate goal.

Video Clips:
Beyond Socially Responsible Business
Opportunity in the Failure of Design
Being Less Bad is Not Being Good
The Goal of Efficient Leadership
Business Fueling - And Refueling - Itself
Clean Design Protocol from the Bottom Up
Products for Life, Customers for Life
Architecture's Effect on Productivity