Bill Barnett: Where Great Companies and Leaders Come From (video)

Stanford GSB Professor Bill Barnett: Where Great Companies and Leaders Come From:

Great leaders push for innovation despite fear of failure. How does initial group consensus or disagreement affect perception of success? Video recorded on October 14, 2016, as part of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Fall Reunion/Alumni Weekend. 

Speaker: William Barnett Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations, Stanford GSB Affiliated Faculty, Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford. Video above published Oct 21, 2016.

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Buffett: A Big Bank Account Doesn't Make You Successful (video)

Warren Buffett: A Big Bank Account Doesn't Make You Successful:

A segment from the series 'Big Problems. Big Thinkers,' billionaire investor Warren Buffett reflects on what success means to him.

Watch the full episode: How to Live a Successful Life, According to the Dalai Lama, Warren Buffett & Other Big Thinkers

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Vinod Khosla: Failure does not matter, Success matters (video)

Vinod Khosla: Failure does not matter. Success matters:

“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try,” emphasized Vinod Khosla (MBA '80) during the Roanak Desai Memorial View From The Top talk on May 1, 2015. Khosla, the founder of Sun Microsystems and Khosla Ventures, also discussed the importance of having a belief system and the "indulgence" of brutal honesty. Published May 11, 2015

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Bill Gross: Single Biggest Reason Why Startups Succeed (video)

Bill Gross: The single biggest reason why startups succeed - Bill Gross has founded a lot of startups, and incubated many others — and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, his own and other people's, and ranked each company on five key factors. He found one factor that stands out from the others — and surprised even him. (Originally published on Jun 1, 2015)

Bill Gross: Founder @Idealab. Created more than 100 companies leading to 45 IPO's and acquisitions, including 7 more than $1 Billion exits

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Vinod Khosla: Failure does not matter, Success matters (video)

Vinod Khosla: Failure does not matter. Success matters. - “Try and fail, but don’t fail to try,” emphasized Vinod Khosla (MBA '80) during the Roanak Desai Memorial View From The Top talk on May 1, 2015. Khosla, the founder of Sun Microsystems and Khosla Ventures, also discussed the importance of having a belief system and the "indulgence" of brutal honesty. Originally published on May 11, 2015.

Read more #GSBvftt takeaways on Twitter: http://stanford.io/1PcRiFf

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Peter Thiel on Startup Success: Secrets, Monopoly, Unique (video)

Peter Thiel on Startup Success: Secrets, Monopoly, Unique (video above)

Peter Thiel: successful businesses are based on secrets - speaking with Wired magazine editor David Rowan in London at an event on 25 September, Thiel said that "uniqueness", "secrets", and a monopoly on the marketplace were the key to successful startups. Published on Sep 30, 2014

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Key to Startup Success, Purity of Motivation, Compelling Value Proposition

Imagining the future is not a science but an art. This description from Botha about what he is looking for is qualitative: “The key to start-up success is purity of motivation… If they can weave a believable story with a compelling value proposition, they’ll have us hooked.” (source infra)

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Roelof Botha about Venture Capital and Business | 25iq: "Many businesses described by founders as needing venture capital are really just small businesses looking for what amounts to small business finance. The people who start these businesses are genuine entrepreneurs. Often they are better off with bootstrap financing or borrowing money in the form of a loan. The businesses created by these entrepreneurs are very important businesses, and a key part of building an economy and creating jobs. But they are not the sort of businesses that are suitable for venture investing. Again, that’s OK.  the total amount of venture financing is overall a relatively small part of an economy. Because of its impact on innovation and productivity venture capital punches far above its weight in terms of impact, but the absolute dollar amount invested per year is relatively small." (read more at link above)


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