Tech changes and the entrepreneur: How to keep up

Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that over the next 20 years, we’ll see as much change in technology as we’ve seen in the past 100. If that’s true, it means the future changes faster than we can keep up with it, notes Draper Fisher Jurvetson managing director Steve Jurvetson in this entrepreneur thought leader lecture at Stanford University. And the only ideas worth following for entrepreneurs are the ones that seem crazy. Ignore consensus, he says, and look for ways to change the world.

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Chris Morris is editor of the Entrepreneur Corner on VentureBeat, helping start-up business owners launch and grow their companies. He previously worked at Yahoo! Finance, where he was managing editor, and as director of content development at CNNMoney.com. He is also a widely respected journalist in the video game and technology fields, whose work has appeared in Variety, CNBC.com, AOL and Forbes.com. Follow him on Twitter at @MorrisatLarge

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