Guest Post
When his son announced he was going to become an entrepreneur, Accuray’s John Adler breathed a sigh of relief. Trip Adler, who went on to run Scribd, had always been a free spirit — and the senior Adler notes that …
In a startup, you’re never going to be able to outspend a big company – but David Heinemeier Hansson a partner in 37signals and the creator of Ruby on Rails, says you don’t need to. In this recent entrepreneur thought …
Silicon Valley celebrates its successes, but the failure rate is generally much, much higher. But what makes the Valley different than other entrepreneur-rich areas is how it deals with those failures. Randy Komisar of Kleiner Perkins, in this entrepreneur though …
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, …
Is it possible to execute flawlessly, build a compelling product and be loved by the media and still be a colossal failure? You bet, says Eric Ries, in this entrepreneur thought leader lecture given earlier this year at Stanford University. …
Launching your own business is a daunting task – and one that can make even the most confident entrepreneur doubt his or her skills. Mark Pincus, CEO and founder of Zynga, in this entrepreneur-though-leadership lecture given at Stanford University, says …
Marketing experts might be aghast to hear a CEO say “sometimes you have to ignore your customers,” but in the tech world that’s necessary.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, in this lecture given to Stanford University’s technology venture’s program, notes that …
There’s a classroom exercise that the Stanford technology venture program hits its students with each year: If you had five dollars and two hours, what would you do to make as much money as possible? STVP Executive Director Tina Seelig …
A few weeks from now, the University of California and Stanford University may both institute across-the-board bans on tobacco-industry research funding, a sign of the latest struggle between academic integrity and university buckraking to play out across higher education.
The …
Cytyc Corporation, a publicly traded company targeting women’s health and cancer diagnostics, said it has agreed to acquire Adiana, a venture-backed Redwood City company that has developed a “non-incisional alternative to tubal ligation” for permanent contraception for women.
Cytyc, based …
