Episodes
Chuck Eesley wraps up the course and shares some final takeaways and pieces of advice. The key themes of turning problems into opportunities, experimentation, and iteration and the importance of teams are emphasized.
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Chuck Eesley discusses fundraising. In this video, he talks about venture capital firms and the process of raising money from VC firms.
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Chuck Eesley discusses venture financing and raising money. In this video, pre and post-money valuation along with dilution are discusses with example calculations.
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Chuck Eesley discusses venture financing and raising money. The three main topics covered are the amount of funding, the structure of the deal, and sources of capital.
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Fergus Hurley, a founder of Focal Labs, discusses entrepreneurship, the role on the founding team, and the importance of networking and work experience for building the startup team.
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Clint Korver, a venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, discusses the Board of Directors. He explains the duties and function of the board as well as the typical structure of board meetings.
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Eric Case discusses starting Domainr, a domain name search engine, as a side project. He talks about his career, the inspiration for Domainr, and how they have thought about the revenue model.
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Chuck Eesley discusses learning through work experience. He talks about seeing each career experience as an opportunity to experiment and learn about different aspects of the industry and different parts of the business model.
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Kirsten Luete from Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing discusses how the OTL works, statistics and how to find a technology from Stanford to license into your startup.
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Alex Rampell, founder and CEO of Trialpay, discusses distribution channels and partnerships. Concepts such as bidirectional relevance and channel conflict are discussed.
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Chuck Eesley discusses entrepreneurial sales, elevator pitches, and presentation skills. Sales is presented as an experimentation process in a startup firm.
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Henry Wong discusses the acid test for entrepreneurs, and talks about what elements to present when thinking about raising venture capital.
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Chuck Eesley discusses entrepreneurial sales and marketing, including the role of marketing in defining the target customer and how this choice then drive the go-to-market strategy.
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Chuck Eesley discusses entrepreneurial marketing, market positioning, and go-to market strategies.
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Bjoern Herrmann and Max Marmer from the Startup Genome Project present their model and results on startup failures due to premature scaling.
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Jason Freedman, founder of FlightCaster, talks about his entrepreneurial career and lessons learned. He discusses making something people want, the importance of distinguishing good and bad advice and how optimize does not equal iterate.
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Chuck Eesley continues to talk about customer acquisition as well as the lean start-up model. In this video, he tries to answer the question of why customer acquisition is so difficult, describing it as a balancing act between many different factors.
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Chuck Eesley discusses the customer development methodology and the business model canvas. In this video, he talks about how the scientific method can be applied to the process of entrepreneurship.
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Chuck Eesley discusses the customer development methodology and the lean startup. In the video, he talks about how the scientific method can be applied to the process of entrepreneurship.
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Chuck Eesley discusses the case method style of instruction and some guidelines for analyzing cases and case discussions. He also introduces the idea of the business model which will be discussed in greater detail in the following videos.
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Chuck Eesley discusses technology life cycles and technology diffusion. The typical industry cycles of product and process innovation are discussed. This video also covers some insights that technology entrepreneurs might take away from these patterns.
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Chuck Eesley discusses how to organize productive brainstorming sessions. In this video, he covers the factors that inhibit idea production in brainstorming and how brainstorming is useful in startups.
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Chuck Eesley discusses creativity and improvisation. He goes over the sources for new entrepreneurial ideas and the more productive sources including lead users and industry experience. He also touches on communities of innovation and user innovation.
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Chuck Eesley discusses some of the basics of forming a founding team for an entrepreneurial venture. He stresses that without a strong central team a project will often have very little chance of success.
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Chuck Eesley discusses entrepreneurship as a search for a repeatable, scalable business model. In this video, he discusses the group projects in the class, using the business model canvas, creating a low-fidelity website and market size analysis.
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