Presentation Examples Used in Class 5 Distribution Channels

How startups become companies.

While most of our everyday transactions are driven by the marketplace, are there some things money shouldn't be able to buy -- a spot in line, maybe a human life? As part of his Making Sen$e of financial news series, Paul Solman speaks with Harvard professor Michael Sandel about his new book, "What Money Can't Buy."

Responding to a question from Peter Fenton of Benchmark Capital, Polyvore CEO & Co-Founder Jess Lee shares some of the mistakes that she learned from in leading an organization, including not talking to enough fellow entrepreneurs and waiting too long to rectify hiring mistakes. View more clips and share your comments at http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=3031

This talk is based on Business Model Generation, The Lean Startup, Four Steps to the Epiphany, and The Startup Owner's Manual

Clay Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and the world's most influential management guru according to the Thinkers50, lays out his landmark theory.

Nancy Duarte, author of the "HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations," explains how to avoid PowerPoint hell.

Firms must develop major innovations to prosper, but they don't know how to. However, recent research into the innovation process has made it possible to develop breakthroughs systematically. 15.356 How to Develop Breakthrough Products and Services explores several practical idea generation development methods. To convey the art required to implement each of these methodologies, experts are invited to present real cases to the class.

What Have We Learned Lesson 1: Types of Startups Lesson 2: Ecosystem Lesson 3: How to Fail Less Lesson 4: Can we Teach Entrepreneurship?

Presentation examples for class 3 value proposition

Entrepreneur and business model innovator Alexander Osterwalder discusses dynamic, yet simple-to-use tools for visualizing, challenging and re-inventing business models. Osterwalder articulates how to use the visual language of his business model canvas framework, and shares stories of how this approach helps organizations of all sizes to better create, deliver and capture value.

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston describes how he met his co-founder, Arash Ferdowsi. After a visit to Silicon Valley, Houston and Ferdowsi were introduced and decided they would work together on the project. While it worked out great, says Houston, "It was kind of like getting married on the first date." View more clips and share your comments at http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2986

Entrepreneur Jeff Church discusses whether social enterprises can sell products to affect change in the world. As the co-founder of social enterprise Nika Water, Church believes social entrepreneurs can only have lasting success if they start their enterprises as "nine parts business, one part cause." View more clips and share your comments at http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2937

HarperCollins President and CEO Brian Murray discusses the shifting economics of publishing and how his company, which launches 12 new products per day, is working to succeed in this disruptive period. In conversation with STVP Executive Director Dr. Tina Seelig, Murray also talks about issues of digital rights management, his company's willingness to explore new business models, and how HarperCollins manages relationships with other major players in the space. View more clips and share your comments at http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2963

Presentation examples for class 2: market size and hypotheses testing

Startup weekend introduction

Getting technology to market How to fail less when bringing technology to market

Kauffman Foundation Senior Fellow Ted Zoller challenges Stanford students to engage in entrepreneurship as a practice of action. Based on his research into dealmaker density and network development, Zoller details the power of seizing opportunities and the pathways to developing an entrepreneurial career.

Is your school or workplace divided between the "creatives" versus the practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he offers ways to build the confidence to create. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)

Business Models and Customer Development

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime designed to easily build fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. Translation: Node.js makes it much easier, faster and efficient for your development team to do cool shit in your app in real-time that will melt your users’ faces.

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