#Entrepreneur “Only the Paranoid Survive” Andy Grove – Intel CEO 1987-1998 I just had an urgent “can we meet today?” coffee with Rohan, an ex-student. His three-year-old startup had been slapped with a notice of patent infringement from a Fortune 5...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
How Saboteurs Threaten Innovation–and What to Do About It #BusinessTips
Saturday, October 5, 2024
What Does Product Market Fit Sound Like? This. #BusinessTips
#Entrepreneur I got a call from an ex-student asking me “how do you know when you found product market fit?” There’s been lots of words written about it, but no actual recordings of the moment. I remembered I had saved this 90 second, 26 year-old a...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Security Clearances at the Speed of Startups #BusinessTips
#Entrepreneur Imagine you got a job offer from a company but weren’t allowed to start work – or get paid – for almost a year. And if you can’t pass a security clearance your offer is rescinded. Or you get offered an internship but can’t work on the...
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Lean LaunchPad @Stanford 2024 – 8 Teams In, 8 Companies Out #BusinessTips
#Entrepreneur This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. We just finished the 14th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. The class had gotten so popular that in 2021 we started teaching it in both the winter and spring sessions. During t...
Monday, June 24, 2024
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2024 – Lessons Learned Presentations #BusinessTips
#Entrepreneur We just finished our 9th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for Defense, now in 60 universities, has teams of students working to understand and help solve national security problems. At Stanford this q...