Free Online Lectures and Courses for Entrepreneurship

140 Courses

• New Schools Venture Fund: Investing in Entrepreneurship in Education

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    Hybrids: Entrepreneurs Must Lead People from Radically Different Sectors

    Kim Smith 00:01:40
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    Founding of Teach for America: Entrepreneurs Envision What Others Say is Impossible

    Kim Smith 00:03:50
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    A Theory of Change = Business Model + Strategy

    Kim Smith 00:02:25
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    Focus

    Kim Smith 00:01:20
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    Hybrid Leaders

    Kim Smith 00:00:40
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    Education: Shift From Culture of Compliance to Culture of Performance

    Kim Smith 00:00:59
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    Venture Philanthropy

    Kim Smith 00:01:49
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    New School Venture Fund History and Operations

    Kim Smith 00:01:42
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    New School Portfolio

    Kim Smith 00:02:21
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    Strategic Investment Analysis Via a Hybrid Partner Group

    Kim Smith 00:00:56
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    Leadership, Communication, and Facilitation Skills

    Kim Smith 00:01:02
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    Taking Risks

    Kim Smith 00:01:26
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    Achieving Profits Through Customer Focus

    Kim Smith 00:02:26

• Nokia Innovent: Managing Innovation Within a Big Company

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    Collaborate to Enter Markets

    Stephanie Keller-Bottom 00:01:55
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    Separation from Nokia's Core Business

    Stephanie Keller-Bottom 00:01:26
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    Building Your Business

    Stephanie Keller-Bottom 00:00:55
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    Picking Your Partners and Your Team

    Stephanie Keller-Bottom 00:02:20
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    Focus, Flexibility and Market Validation

    Stephanie Keller-Bottom 00:02:40
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    Creating Commercial Value for Your Product

    Stephanie Keller-Bottom 00:00:46
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    Working with Your Investor

    Stephanie Keller-Bottom 00:00:46
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    Learning from History

    Stephanie Keller-Bottom 00:02:34

• Ooma: Building a Team, Seeking Mentors

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    Recruiting Lessons for an Entrepreneur

    Andrew Frame 00:02:06
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    Building the Board of a Startup

    Andrew Frame 00:01:52
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    Building a Vision

    Andrew Frame 00:02:15
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    Mis-hires in a Startup

    Andrew Frame 00:01:53
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    Mentorship for an Entrepreneur

    Andrew Frame 00:02:16

• PalmOne: PDAs as Convergent Devices

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    The Career Path of a palmOne Executive

    Ken Wirt 00:02:29
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    The Convergence of Technology

    Ken Wirt 00:03:02
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    Examples of When Convergence Works and When it Does Not

    Ken Wirt 00:05:21
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    Historical Example of Convergence - Steam Powered Factory.

    Ken Wirt 00:02:41
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    Distributed Computing Became an Appliance

    Ken Wirt 00:02:25
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    From Revolution to Evolution

    Ken Wirt 00:02:47
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    From Convergence to Appliance

    Ken Wirt 00:08:21
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    The Future of Appliances

    Ken Wirt 00:05:09
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    Future of PDAs as Convergent Devices

    Ken Wirt 00:05:20
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    Growth Prospects for PDAs and for PalmOne

    Ken Wirt 00:03:30
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    How PalmOne Evaluates What Customers Want

    Ken Wirt 00:03:06
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    International Markets

    Ken Wirt 00:01:32
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    Convergence of PDAs with Automobiles

    Ken Wirt 00:02:46
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    Is PalmOne Focusing on Business or Personal Segments?

    Ken Wirt 00:03:31
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    PalmOne and Palm Source

    Ken Wirt 00:01:33
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    How Do You Compete Against More Established Competitors?

    Ken Wirt 00:02:54

• PayPal vs. SpaceX: Different Entrepreneurial Challenges

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    Career Development

    Elon Musk 00:02:56
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    Founding of Paypal

    Elon Musk 00:03:13
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    Success Through Viral Marketing: PayPal

    Elon Musk 00:01:20
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    Selling the Company: Paypal to eBay

    Elon Musk 00:01:10
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    Opportunities in Space: Mars Oasis

    Elon Musk 00:04:21
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    Space Travel Today

    Elon Musk 00:06:31
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    Positioning and Competition: Space Travel

    Elon Musk 00:05:07
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    Startup Successes: Comparing Zip2 and Paypal

    Elon Musk 00:03:14
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    Viral Marketing

    Elon Musk 00:00:46
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    Challenges in the Space Industry

    Elon Musk 00:01:27
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    Why is Space Travel So Expensive?

    Elon Musk 00:02:12
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    Customer Base: Paypal vs. SpaceX

    Elon Musk 00:01:05
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    Qualities of an Entrepreneur

    Elon Musk 00:01:13
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    History of SpaceX

    Elon Musk 00:01:04
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    Career Development: To MBA or Not?

    Elon Musk 00:01:10
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    Reducing Company Costs: Paypal and SpaceX

    Elon Musk 00:02:47
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    Patents and Paypal

    Elon Musk 00:00:50
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    Space Mining vs. Human Space Flight

    Elon Musk 00:01:17
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    Government and Space Travel

    Elon Musk 00:01:06
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    What is the Right Time to Sell?

    Elon Musk 00:02:20
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    History of Zip2

    Elon Musk 00:02:11
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    Decreasing Costs in Space Travel

    Elon Musk 00:01:49
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    Space Travel is Not for the First-Time Entrepreneur

    Elon Musk 00:00:54

• Persevering and Learning from both Success and Failure

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    Coming to Silicon Valley

    Chong-Moon Lee 00:03:11
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    Facing Challenges

    Chong-Moon Lee 00:08:33
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    Never Give up Spirit

    Chong-Moon Lee 00:01:57
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    Skills of an Entrepreneur

    Chong-Moon Lee 00:06:33
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    Success and Failure

    Chong-Moon Lee 00:04:14
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    Change Yourself Constantly

    Chong-Moon Lee 00:01:16

• Perspectives on Silicon Valley

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    Silicon Valley: History and Secret

    John Hennessy 00:03:36
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    Faculty and Startups: Conflict of Interest or Conflict of Commitment?

    John Hennessy 00:02:05
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    Observations on the Biotech and Biomedical Devices Space

    John Hennessy 00:03:19
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    A Good Team Needs Technical and Non-technical People

    John Hennessy 00:03:01
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    If You're So Smart, How Come You're Not Rich?

    John Hennessy 00:03:07
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    The Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It

    John Hennessy 00:03:23
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    The Downside of Silicon Valley

    John Hennessy 00:01:40
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    Envisioning New Centers of Entrepreneurial Activity

    John Hennessy 00:01:03
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    Bioengineering: Supporting Innovation Across Disciplines in a University Setting

    John Hennessy 00:02:32
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    Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship

    John Hennessy 00:01:41
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    Gravity Pro-B: Government Projects and Spin-off Companies

    John Hennessy 00:02:29

• Proactiv Solution: Discovering and Meeting Market Needs

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    Benefits of a Partnership

    Katie Rodan 00:00:48
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    Discovering and Meeting Market Needs

    Katie Rodan 00:02:40
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    Market Research

    Katie Rodan 00:02:48
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    Raising Money and Importance of Licensing Your Product

    Katie Rodan 00:03:20
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    Infomercials - A Way to Reach Your Audience

    Katie Rodan 00:02:05
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    Owning Your Product Formula

    Katie Rodan 00:01:23
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    Growing the Organization

    Katie Rodan 00:02:00

• Prosper.com: Building a Business in a Regulated Industry

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    The Emotional Roller Coaster

    Jim Breyer 00:02:34
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    Defensibility Through Regulatory Constraints

    Jim Breyer 00:04:00
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    Importance of Building a Strong Culture

    Jim Breyer 00:01:34
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    Managing the Burn Rate

    Jim Breyer 00:04:56
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    Career Advice for Students about Entrepreneurship

    Jim Breyer 00:02:05

• Public Sector Leadership

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    Life and its Purpose

    Jackie Speier 00:02:06
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    Leadership Style of Women

    Jackie Speier 00:02:20
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    Politics in Public and Private Sectors

    Jackie Speier 00:02:00