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    How To Survive In A Downturn Economy

    September 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Despite Chile having many scientists and entrepreneurs, Economic Minister Fontaine claims his nation currently needs greater interconnection between these professional groups. Learning from the...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Sustenance Of Growth Rate

    October 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Venture capitalist Mark Suster believes being a lean startup is related to size and funding levels, rather than speed and product iteration. However, once a startup finds a strong product and...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Persistence Pays Off

    September 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Amit Chatterjee, CEO and founder of Hara, discusses the learning benefits an entrepreneur gains from "Putting on a suit" inside a larger company. Compared to launching his own entrepreneurial...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Becoming An Angel Investor

    January 20, 2010, 12:00am PST

    David Heineimeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals in Chicago, says that planning is guessing, and for a start-up, the focus must be on today and not on tomorrow. He...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Veer Away From Heavy Management Theory

    October 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig, formerly the COO of Yahoo!, discusses how Google supplanted Yahoo! as the leading desktop search engine during the mid-2000s. Rosensweig points out Yahoo! served many...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Setting Prices, Evaluating Opportunities

    April 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    The market doesn't set the price, says Jensen Huang, Co-founder of NVIDIA. The competition does. And the function of an effective manager is to decide how to allocate resources for the best...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Effective Choices, Not Longer Days

    May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Throughout his thirty-year career launching four start-up organizations (including founding Numenta), Jeff Hawkins has always sworn that they would be home for breakfast and dinner with his family...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Constraints Are Your Friends

    January 20, 2010, 12:00am PST

    David Heinemeier Hansson reminds the audience of a simple fact: you'll never outdo Microsoft or Google; they will always have more resources than start-ups. But an entrepreneur must realize that...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Strategic Philanthropy

    May 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Find something in the world you're capable of fixing, and use all the skills at your disposal to make it work. Acting for the common good should be as commonplace and as devotional as going into...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Forgo The NDA: Find Support Where You Can

    May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Jeff Hawkins, Founder of Numenta, encourages entrepreneurs to involve people in their problems and to solicit as many qualified opinions as they can. Don't get tangled in product secrecy and idea...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    On The Verge Of An Acquisition?

    May 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Microsoft came knocking, but they and Yahoo! could not agree on a price, says Sue Decker, president of the search engine and online community. Decker attributes the incomplete partnership to a...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Exit Strategy For The Single Product Company

    February 20, 2008, 12:00am PST

    How you exit your venture is of equal weight to entering the market, says Mir Imran, CEO of InCube Labs and entrepreneur behind 20 different ventures. Particularly for the high-risk,...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Building Resistance To Acquisition

    January 14, 2009, 12:00am PST

    To build an enterprise that can surely go the distance, Pacific Biosciences' Chairman and CEO Hugh Martin suggest a short list of strategies. Among them, the board must have confidence in a strong...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Building Hi-Tech Skyscrapers

    October 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga, equates building a sustainable online empire with building the skyscrapers that shaped the look of modern cities at the turn of the last century. Pincus reflects upon...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Creating True Value Proposition In Clean Tech

    April 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Improved safety and water quality aren't the only results of displacing chlorine as a water purifier. Carlos Perea, Miox CEO, points out that saving money is the main reason that his private and...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    The Innovation Hub Of South America

    September 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Economic Minister Fontaine points out that to reach Chile's economic goals, the nation must strive toward true innovation and entrepreneurship. By doing so, Chile aims to become the innovation hub...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Economic Lessons From Silicon Valley

    September 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Despite Chile having many scientists and entrepreneurs, Economic Minister Fontaine claims his nation currently needs greater interconnection between these professional groups. Learning from the...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Lean Startups And Fat Startups

    October 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Venture capitalist Mark Suster believes being a lean startup is related to size and funding levels, rather than speed and product iteration. However, once a startup finds a strong product and...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    The Value Of Putting On A Suit

    September 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Amit Chatterjee, CEO and founder of Hara, discusses the learning benefits an entrepreneur gains from "Putting on a suit" inside a larger company. Compared to launching his own entrepreneurial...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Unlearn Your MBA (Entire Talk)

    January 20, 2010, 12:00am PST

    David Heineimeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals in Chicago, says that planning is guessing, and for a start-up, the focus must be on today and not on tomorrow. He...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Why Google Won Desktop Search

    October 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig, formerly the COO of Yahoo!, discusses how Google supplanted Yahoo! as the leading desktop search engine during the mid-2000s. Rosensweig points out Yahoo! served many...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • White Papers

    Secure, Consumer-Friendly Web Authentication and Payments With a Phone

    September 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    This paper proposes a challenge-response authentication sys-tem for web applications called Snap2Pass that is easy to use, provides strong security guarantees, and requires no browser extensions....

    Provided by Stanford University

  • White Papers

    Human Resources From An Organizational Behavior Perspective: Some Paradoxes Explained

    November 26, 2007, 12:00am PST

    American workplaces exhibit three facts which, taken together, could constitute anomalous or paradoxical organizational behavior, especially when seen through the lens of the rationality and...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • White Papers

    Ripcord: A Modular Platform for Data Center Networking

    June 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Data centers present many interesting challenges, such as extreme scalability, location independence of workload, fault-tolerant operation, and server migration. While many data center network...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • White Papers

    Strategic Directions in Software Engineering and Programming Languages

    January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST

    The techniques and tools that will be needed for efficient and accurate system development, in the face of increasing system complexity and declining life cycles, require deep, new and exciting...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Choosing The Right Projects

    May 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Despite Microsoft's size and market dominance, CEO Steve Ballmer considers himself to be a "Mini venture capitalist" in a sea of bright ideas and new market possibilities. Working with the best...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    The Scaling Of Vision

    April 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    People running organizations often make a distinction between management and leadership - the former being mathematical and scientific; the latter being more artful and magical. While management...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Knowing When To Step Down

    April 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    It sometimes happens that a leader deems it necessary to take the company in a new market direction. And it takes a leader with courage to admit that they do not have the skills, connections, or...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Dutiful Delegation

    April 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Success is not how smart you are; it's how you can get people to do what you want. Learning to delegate and to build a team was one of the hardest lessons for Jeff Housenbold, the CEO of...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Microsoft's Research And Development

    May 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Touch, voice, natural language input, smart hardware, and new platforms: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, outlines the company's $9 million path of product research for 2009. Overall, he states that...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    The History Of Palm And The Part-Time Entrepreneur

    May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Jeff Hawkins, Founder of Numenta, was an early observer of the idea that people wanted their primary personal computer to be in their pocket, thus he launched Palm in 1992. The self-described...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Transferring Big Company Culture To Startups

    October 17, 2007, 12:00am PDT

    Dominic Orr, CEO of Aruba Networks, describes his experience applying the HP way to a startup environment. Orr speaks about his focus on giving people freedom and trust which in turn sparks the...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Three Necessities For Start-Up Success

    May 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Seasoned serial entrepreneur Marc Andreessen shares his three criteria for a successful start-up. He states that there must be a substantial market opportunity, a product that's a 10x better...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Balance And Tension In Company Culture

    May 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, considers the importance of balance and the tension between symbiotic and opposing forces in the enterprise. In this webcast, he takes a philosophical perspective...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Choosing An Investor

    January 16, 2008, 12:00am PST

    Selecting a financial partner for your growing enterprise should be as careful a process as selecting a member of your senior staff, says serial entrepreneur Mitch Kapor. In this webcast he...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Retaining Good People

    November 12, 2007, 12:00am PST

    Dan Springer, CEO of Responsys, suggests strategies to retain good people. Springer suggests that the most important strategy is to help team members feel excited about their career path, whatever...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Silicon Valley: Ground Zero For The Deal

    January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST

    Don't live in Silicon Valley? If you're serious about business, you'd better pack your bags. The local ecosystem of ideas, entrepreneurship, and venture is so powerful, says investors Ron Conway...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Culture Trumps Strategy

    March 5, 2008, 12:00am PST

    Building great corporate culture is more than just metaphors; it's what motivates a winning team. Most people at corporations in the US are unhappy, says Silicon Valley Bank CEO Ken Wilcox. But...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    One CEO's Take On Talent

    April 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    In addition to the practical knowledge to do the job right, Jeff Housenbold, CEO of Shutterfly, seeks out employees that have a healthy self-awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses. In...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Company Building As Shakespearean Tragedy

    October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Silicon Valley lore includes anecdotes of company founders being thrown out of their own companies. But starting a company and growing a company are two different skill sets, says serial...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • White Papers

    An In-Silico Neural Model of Dynamic Routing Through Neuronal Coherence

    January 11, 2008, 12:00am PST

    Authors describe a neurobiologically plausible model to implement dynamic routing using the concept of neuronal communication through neuronal coherence. The model has three-tier architecture: a...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • White Papers

    Efficient Topologies for Large-Scale Cluster Networks

    December 3, 2009, 12:00am PST

    Increasing integrated-circuit pin bandwidth has motivated a corresponding increase in the degree or radix of interconnection networks and their routers. This paper describes the flattened...

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  • White Papers

    Private Cloud Computing

    September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    In the sixty-plus years since business computing began, there have been two major trends: first there was mainframe computing, followed by client-server. Now there is a new paradigm. Cloud...

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  • White Papers

    CS 229 Final Report: Location Based Adaptive Routing Protocol(LBAR) Using Reinforcement Learning

    December 12, 2008, 12:00am PST

    In this paper authors present an algorithm for a location based adaptive routing protocol that uses both geographic routing and reinforcement learning to maximize throughput in the mobile vehicle...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • White Papers

    Introduction to Cloud Computing Business & Technology

    January 28, 2010, 12:00am PST

    Cloud computing, managed services, Software as a Service (SaaS), software on demand, Software+Service, Platform as a Service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service have all been used to describe new...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    No VP's In A Start-Up

    October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Start-ups are not junior versions of larger companies. It's a different animal, says serial entrepreneur Steve Blank. Rather than developing a sales team or a marketing team from the get-go, Blank...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Company Building As Shakespearean Tragedy

    October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Silicon Valley lore includes anecdotes of company founders being thrown out of their own companies. But starting a company and growing a company are two different skill sets, says serial...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    One CEO's Take On Talent

    April 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    In addition to the practical knowledge to do the job right, Jeff Housenbold, CEO of Shutterfly, seeks out employees that have a healthy self-awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses. In...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Culture Trumps Strategy

    March 5, 2008, 12:00am PST

    Building great corporate culture is more than just metaphors; it's what motivates a winning team. Most people at corporations in the US are unhappy, says Silicon Valley Bank CEO Ken Wilcox. But...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Silicon Valley: Ground Zero For The Deal

    January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST

    Don't live in Silicon Valley? If you're serious about business, you'd better pack your bags. The local ecosystem of ideas, entrepreneurship, and venture is so powerful, says investors Ron Conway...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Retaining Good People

    November 12, 2007, 12:00am PST

    Dan Springer, CEO of Responsys, suggests strategies to retain good people. Springer suggests that the most important strategy is to help team members feel excited about their career path, whatever...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Choosing An Investor

    January 16, 2008, 12:00am PST

    Selecting a financial partner for your growing enterprise should be as careful a process as selecting a member of your senior staff, says serial entrepreneur Mitch Kapor. In this webcast he...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Balance And Tension In Company Culture

    May 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, considers the importance of balance and the tension between symbiotic and opposing forces in the enterprise. In this webcast, he takes a philosophical perspective...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Three Necessities For Start-Up Success

    May 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Seasoned serial entrepreneur Marc Andreessen shares his three criteria for a successful start-up. He states that there must be a substantial market opportunity, a product that's a 10x better...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Transferring Big Company Culture To Startups

    October 17, 2007, 12:00am PDT

    Dominic Orr, CEO of Aruba Networks, describes his experience applying the HP way to a startup environment. Orr speaks about his focus on giving people freedom and trust which in turn sparks the...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    The History Of Palm And The Part-Time Entrepreneur

    May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Jeff Hawkins, Founder of Numenta, was an early observer of the idea that people wanted their primary personal computer to be in their pocket, thus he launched Palm in 1992. The self-described...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Microsoft's Research And Development

    May 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Touch, voice, natural language input, smart hardware, and new platforms: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, outlines the company's $9 million path of product research for 2009. Overall, he states that...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Dutiful Delegation

    April 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Success is not how smart you are; it's how you can get people to do what you want. Learning to delegate and to build a team was one of the hardest lessons for Jeff Housenbold, the CEO of...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Knowing When To Step Down

    April 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    It sometimes happens that a leader deems it necessary to take the company in a new market direction. And it takes a leader with courage to admit that they do not have the skills, connections, or...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    The Scaling Of Vision

    April 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    People running organizations often make a distinction between management and leadership - the former being mathematical and scientific; the latter being more artful and magical. While management...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Choosing The Right Projects

    May 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Despite Microsoft's size and market dominance, CEO Steve Ballmer considers himself to be a "Mini venture capitalist" in a sea of bright ideas and new market possibilities. Working with the best...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • White Papers

    Strategic Directions in Software Engineering and Programming Languages

    January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST

    The techniques and tools that will be needed for efficient and accurate system development, in the face of increasing system complexity and declining life cycles, require deep, new and exciting...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • White Papers

    Ripcord: A Modular Platform for Data Center Networking

    June 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Data centers present many interesting challenges, such as extreme scalability, location independence of workload, fault-tolerant operation, and server migration. While many data center network...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • White Papers

    Human Resources From An Organizational Behavior Perspective: Some Paradoxes Explained

    November 26, 2007, 12:00am PST

    American workplaces exhibit three facts which, taken together, could constitute anomalous or paradoxical organizational behavior, especially when seen through the lens of the rationality and...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • White Papers

    Secure, Consumer-Friendly Web Authentication and Payments With a Phone

    September 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    This paper proposes a challenge-response authentication sys-tem for web applications called Snap2Pass that is easy to use, provides strong security guarantees, and requires no browser extensions....

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Why Google Won Desktop Search

    October 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig, formerly the COO of Yahoo!, discusses how Google supplanted Yahoo! as the leading desktop search engine during the mid-2000s. Rosensweig points out Yahoo! served many...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Unlearn Your MBA (Entire Talk)

    January 20, 2010, 12:00am PST

    David Heineimeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals in Chicago, says that planning is guessing, and for a start-up, the focus must be on today and not on tomorrow. He...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    The Value Of Putting On A Suit

    September 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Amit Chatterjee, CEO and founder of Hara, discusses the learning benefits an entrepreneur gains from "Putting on a suit" inside a larger company. Compared to launching his own entrepreneurial...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Lean Startups And Fat Startups

    October 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Venture capitalist Mark Suster believes being a lean startup is related to size and funding levels, rather than speed and product iteration. However, once a startup finds a strong product and...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Economic Lessons From Silicon Valley

    September 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Despite Chile having many scientists and entrepreneurs, Economic Minister Fontaine claims his nation currently needs greater interconnection between these professional groups. Learning from the...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    The Innovation Hub Of South America

    September 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Economic Minister Fontaine points out that to reach Chile's economic goals, the nation must strive toward true innovation and entrepreneurship. By doing so, Chile aims to become the innovation hub...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Creating True Value Proposition In Clean Tech

    April 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Improved safety and water quality aren't the only results of displacing chlorine as a water purifier. Carlos Perea, Miox CEO, points out that saving money is the main reason that his private and...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Building Hi-Tech Skyscrapers

    October 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga, equates building a sustainable online empire with building the skyscrapers that shaped the look of modern cities at the turn of the last century. Pincus reflects upon...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Building Resistance To Acquisition

    January 14, 2009, 12:00am PST

    To build an enterprise that can surely go the distance, Pacific Biosciences' Chairman and CEO Hugh Martin suggest a short list of strategies. Among them, the board must have confidence in a strong...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Exit Strategy For The Single Product Company

    February 20, 2008, 12:00am PST

    How you exit your venture is of equal weight to entering the market, says Mir Imran, CEO of InCube Labs and entrepreneur behind 20 different ventures. Particularly for the high-risk,...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    On The Verge Of An Acquisition?

    May 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Microsoft came knocking, but they and Yahoo! could not agree on a price, says Sue Decker, president of the search engine and online community. Decker attributes the incomplete partnership to a...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Forgo The NDA: Find Support Where You Can

    May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Jeff Hawkins, Founder of Numenta, encourages entrepreneurs to involve people in their problems and to solicit as many qualified opinions as they can. Don't get tangled in product secrecy and idea...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Strategic Philanthropy

    May 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT

    Find something in the world you're capable of fixing, and use all the skills at your disposal to make it work. Acting for the common good should be as commonplace and as devotional as going into...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Constraints Are Your Friends

    January 20, 2010, 12:00am PST

    David Heinemeier Hansson reminds the audience of a simple fact: you'll never outdo Microsoft or Google; they will always have more resources than start-ups. But an entrepreneur must realize that...

    Provided by Stanford University

  • Webcasts

    Effective Choices, Not Longer Days

    May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT

    Throughout his thirty-year career launching four start-up organizations (including founding Numenta), Jeff Hawkins has always sworn that they would be home for breakfast and dinner with his family...

    Provided by Stanford University

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