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Why Business Schools Don’t Breed Entrepreneurs

Stanford’s Steve Blank explains the history of the MBA and the difference between business startups and large corporations.

Leveraging Relationships Between Bulge Bracket Banks & Startups

The Wharton Entrepreneurs Workshop, developed jointly by Wharton | San Francisco and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, features Gary Johnson, Vice President at Credit Suisse, discussing the current and projected state of the U.S. public equity markets, the financial and business attributes of a startup that are essential for a successful IPO or acquisition, and investment areas that are attracting the most attention in the technology sector.

Johnson also outlines what startups can expect to gain by establishing early relationships with traditional investment banks and how those relationships evolve.

A preacher, 500 startups, and a dream to change it all

Dave McClure represents that egregious class of geeks whose success makes a suit consider the so-called “hoodie” path. Beyond founding 500 Startups and Geeks On A Plane, Dave has gone on a bender, trying to discover entrepreneurs in different corners of the world, bringing their emerging talents to the forefront.

Heading Paypal’s marketing in the 2000s, McClure was later given $3 million to manage the Founder’s Fund and Facebook Fund. This small pool of money led to the birth of 500 Startups. Why not help launch startups for cheap earlier where the cost impact can be minimized? Now McClure hopes to take his success to destinations like Latin America and India, where startup-dom is the new wave. Gigaom’s link provides a nice in-depth article into why McClure’ boyish dream may actually become a reality. 

Lessons From Entrepreneurs | 500 StartUps

Startup entrepreneurs who have been part of the 500 Startups Accelerator Program talk about their experience, what they’ve learned, the value in being part of the Accelerator program to their startup and show the prep that goes into pitching at Demo Day.

How to Deliver Your StartUp Pitch | StartupStories

In the first of a series by NASDAQ and NYTM about how to build and grow a great entrepreneurial venture, founders and investors from Birchbox, SideTour, Proclivity Media, Of A Kind, Artsicle, Warby Parker, OKCupid, Shelby.TV, TechStars and Union Square Ventures share their insights and advice about what it takes to craft a great pitch.

Everyone a Changemaker | RSA

World-renowned social entrepreneur and founder of Ashoka, Bill Drayton discusses the key skills every person must learn in order to contribute meaningfully to a rapidly changing world.

The Future of Water | Mark Owen

Mark Owen is an OSU Mechanical Engineering graduate and has a Masters of Technology in Advanced Manufacturing from the University of Limerick Ireland. He is an inventor and entrepreneur, and was the founder of both Phoseon Technology and Puralytics. Puralytics has developed a water purification technology and products which are sustainable and have applications in both here and in the developing world. Puralytics has won numerous global awards for their technology and products. In this video, Mark Owen discusses the future of water and how new technology will be required sustain it.

25 Up-And-Coming Startup CEOs In New York

New York City is always pushing itself to compete with Silicon Valley in terms of launching competitive startups. Although New York City startups do not share the same prominence as that of the Googles and Facebooks, it is has young and up and coming entrepreneurs who share the same promise, with their raw energy levels and desire to persevere. 

Below is the list of CEOs, who represent the 25 hottest up and coming startups. To learn more about each CEO, please click on the title.

  1. Jason Goldberg, CEO of Fab
  2. Dave Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal, co-CEOs of Warby Parker
  3. Jake Schwartz, CEO of General Assembly
  4. Lily Liu, CEO of Public Stuff
  5. Matt Meeker, CEO of BarkBox
  6. Vinicius Vacanti, CEO of Yipit
  7. Perry Chen, CEO of Kickstarter
  8. Bre Pettis, CEO of Makerbot
  9. Neil Capel, CEO of SailThru
  10. Jonah Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed
  11. Wiley Cerilli, CEO of SinglePlatform
  12. Irving Fain, CEO of CrowdTwist
  13. Jason Baptiste, CEO of OnSwipe
  14. Chantel Waterbury, CEO of Chloe + Isabel
  15. Ari Jacoby, CEO of Solve Media
  16. Philip James, CEO of Lot18
  17. Noah Brier, CEO of Percolate
  18. Nihal Mehta, CEO of LocalResponse
  19. Britta Riley, CEO of Windowfarms
  20. Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna, co-CEOs of Birchbox
  21. Jordy Leiser, CEO of StellaService
  22. Joe Essenfeld, CEO of Jibe
  23. John Laramie, CEO of AdStruc
  24. Jonathan Hefter, CEO of Neverware
  25. Aaron Schildkrout and Brian Schechter, co-CEOs of HowAboutWe

The Growth of Gilt Groupe

Want to learn more about Gilt Groupe’s hyper growth to revenues of approximately $500 million and employee size of 1000 employees in just 3 years? Founder Alexis Maybank discusses the growth strategy and what led Gilt to become a power player in the online retail industry. 

Ridesharing Made Easy

Taking a trip but don’t want to drive by yourself? Ride-sharing startup Zimride enables drivers to sell empty seats in their cars. Passengers can buy rides with people already driving to where they want to go. SmartPlanet looks at how the company uses Facebook to connect drivers and passengers together.

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