Steve Blank, Serial Entrepreneur Steve Blank Serial Entrepreneur Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in high technology companies and management. He is a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Graduate School of Engineering STVP Program. Steve has been a founder or participant in eight Silicon Valley startups since 1978. His last company, E.piphany, started in his living room. Steve is on the board of CafePress.com, an on-line marketplace, and IMVU, a 3D IM social network. Steve was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California Coastal Commission and is the Chairman of Audubon California and on the board of the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST.) His Google Tech talk, "The Secret History of Silicon Valley" (available on YouTube) is one of the definitive views on the early history of innovation in Silicon Valley. Steve teaches entrepreneurship and a methodology of managing marketing, sales and business development in high technology startups. Related Links:
Vous créez une startup ? Chassez les idées reçues ! Le produit n’est pas intéressant La plupart du temps, vous n’allez pas livrer au marché le produit auquel vous pensiez avant la création de la startup. Si tout se passe bien, de nombreuses « catastrophes » vont venir vous perturber et faire mûrir l’idée de départ. Si vous avez inventé une technologie, elle restera au coeur de l’histoire. Mais il faudra savoir ne pas s’entêter, laisser le marché et la concurrence vous challenger et adapter votre vision. Persévérez mais ne vous entêtez pas Une fois que votre idée s’est imposée comme une évidence et que vous bouillez d’envie de la concrétiser avant tout le monde, mettez au clair votre vision. Les idées ne valent rien Tout cela n’a aucune valeur sans exécution. Les catastrophes sont indispensables Toutes ces « catastrophes » sont normales. Dit d’une autre façon : si vous restez dans votre zone de confort, vous faites probablement mal les choses. Une startup n’est pas une entreprise Dans une situation classique : Mf < Ml < Me
Tina Seelig, Stanford Technology Ventures Program Tina Seelig Stanford Technology Ventures Program Tina Seelig is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program where she is responsible for the management, operations, and dissemination efforts of STVP. In addition, Tina is the Director of the Stanford Entrepreneurship Network and the co-Director of the Mayfield Fellows Program. Tina also teaches a course in the Department of Management Science & Engineering on Creativity and Innovation. Prior to joining STVP, Tina worked as an entrepreneur, management consultant, author, and scientist. Tina has worked as management consultant for Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, has written several popular science books and has designed a series of educational games. After Tina's first book was published in 1991, she became interested in how books are marketed. After selling her business, Tina worked as a Multimedia Producer for Compaq Computer Corporation. Related Links: stvp.stanford.edu
Comment tester et améliorer son idée en un minimum de temps ? - De... Marissa Mayer, Google Marissa Mayer Google Marissa leads the product management efforts on Google's search products- web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and more. She joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer and led the user interface and webserver teams at that time. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google's search interface, internationalizing the site to more than 100 languages, defining Google News, Gmail, and Orkut, and launching more than 100 features and products on Google.com. Concurrently with her full-time work at Google, Marissa has taught introductory computer programming classes at Stanford to over 3,000 students. Prior to joining Google, Marissa worked at the UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. Graduating with honors, Marissa received her BS in Symbolic Systems and her MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
11 Strategies to Rock Your Startup’s Scalability in 2010 This is a guest posting by Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher, authors of The Art of Scalability. I'm still reading their book and will have an interview with them a little later. If 2010 is the year that you’ve decided to kickoff your startup or if you’ve already got something off the ground and are expecting double or triple digit growth, this list is for you. We all want the attention of users to achieve viral growth but as many can attest, too much attention can bring a startup to its knees. If you’ve used Twitter for any amount of time you’re sure to have seen the “Fail Whale”, which is so often seen that it has its own fan club. Take a look at the graph below from Compete.com showing Twitter’s unique visitors. What should you do if you want your startup to scale with double and triple digit growth? 1) Scale Out – Not Up This one shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. 2) Use Databases Appropriately 3) Soar Through the Clouds 4) Goldfish not Thoroughbreds 5) Simplify, Simplify, Simplify
Mark Suster, Serial Entrepreneur Mark Suster Serial Entrepreneur Mark Suster is a serial entrepreneur who grew up in Northern California. After graduating from UCSD (economics) and University of Chicago (MBA), he joined Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in Los Angeles to build computer systems for large corporations. In 1994 he transferred within Accenture to their technology center of excellence in Sophia Antipolis, France, where he traveled extensively throughout Europe. Suster started his first company in 1999 while headquartered in London - a SaaS platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects including the London Underground, Thames Water, BNP Paribas, and all of the top German construction firms. He then launched his second company, Koral, in San Mateo, California, which later sold to Salesforce.com, where he became VP Product Management. Suster joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner. Related Links:
Que faire après le conseil en stratégie? E-mail Détails Parcours dans le conseil 6 septembre 2011 Lu : 3082 fois Les débouchés du conseil en stratégie : Mythes et réalités Les directions de grands groupes, les fonds d’investissements, les banques d’affaires sont autant d’opportunités de carrières que chérissent les consultants en stratégie. Beaucoup de raisons peuvent pousser le consultant à quitter le monde du conseil en stratégie : les horaires, la pression, la charge de travail parfois même l’impression que le produit final est toujours le même et souvent inutile. De plus, le conseil en stratégie n’est pas une fin en soi pour beaucoup de consultants, mais une continuité du parcours académique qui offre aux consultants des débouchés vers des voies royales parmi lesquelles : la finance, les directions de grands groupes, et l’entreprenariat. Une étude qui sera publiée prochainement par WIT Associés montre que ces voies sont empruntées plus ou moins fréquemment selon les grades : Un accélérateur de carrière dans les grands groupes
Randy Komisar, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Randy Komisar Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Randy Komisar joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a partner in 2005. Several years prior, Komisar partnered with entrepreneurs creating businesses with leading edge technologies. He was a co-founder of Claris Corporation, he served as CEO for LucasArts Entertainment and Crystal Dynamics, and he's acted as a "virtual CEO" for such companies as WebTV, Mirra, and GlobalGiving. Komisar holds a BA in Economics from Brown University and a JD from Harvard Law School. Related Links: www.kpcb.com Larry Page, Google Larry Page Google Larry Page was Google's founding CEO and grew the company to more than 200 employees and profitability before moving into the role as President, Products in April 2001. After Eric Schmidt's tenure as CEO, Page stepped back into that role in 2011. The son of Michigan State University computer science professor Dr. While in the PhD program in computer science at Stanford University, Page met Sergey Brin and together they developed and ran Google, which began operating in 1998. In 2002, Page was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow. Related Links: www.google.com