While Plan A may begin the backbone on which an entrepreneurial idea is hinged, succinct data gathering and constant market evaluation more often lead to profit with the next idea in line. The tech sector breeds innovation, says KPCB partner and frequent speaker Randy Komisar, and to do so it is required to accept the numerous fits and starts of the start-up.

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Accenture’s Liz Tinkham interviews salesforce.com’s Polly Sumner about entrepreneurship that occurs in both large and small companies. They both agree that innovation and risk-taking occur in any-sized company where the culture emphasizes “no idea is a dumb idea.” Sumner advises young entrepreneurs to not fear risk: every failure teaches you a valuable lesson, and once learned, success is that much sweeter.

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Founded by Steve Case, Revolution seeks to drive transformative change by shifting power to consumers and building significant, category-defining companies in the process.

Im Rahmen der Entrepreneurship Week der Stanford University spricht er über “entrepreneurial leadership” und seine Erfahrungen als Entrepreneur und CEO in seiner Zeit bei AOL.

People, passion, perseverance. Former AOL CEO and Chairman Steve Case describes these words as the bedrock of successful entrepreneurship. Heading into what may be the “golden era of entrepreneurship,” he says that he relies on the “three p’s” as assessment tools to help guide his direction and goals. When all of the three parts are in balance, an entrepreneur can achieve success like that of AOL; when they aren’t, you get the failure of the AOL-Time Warner merger.

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Jonathan Boutelle and Rashmi Sinha, founders of the presentation-sharing site SlideShare, describe the entrepreneurial process as a series of pivots. Boutelle explains it’s not just a jump, but an evolving growth of stages that leads to an idea that can start a business. From there, Sinha says that focused execution keeps the vision moving forward. By continually measuring the activity, they both believe that entrepreneurs can better recognize the growth stages of their company.

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• Hearsay Labs – Steve Garrity und Clara Shih (Autorin von “The Facebook Era“)

• Increo Solutions, Inc. – Kimber Lockhart und Jeff Seibert

• unwrap, inc. – Josh Reeves

• Apture – Tristan Harris

Diese erzählen von ihren ersten Erfahrungen als Unternehmensgründer. Gesprächsthemen sind u.A. die Motivation ein Entrepreneur zu sein, den richtigen Partner für die Unternehmens- gründung zu finden, sowie Vor- und Nachteile während des Studiums zu gründen.

Six young Stanford grads and entrepreneurs — Steven Garrity, Clara Shih, Kimber Lockhart, Jeff Seibert, Josh Reeves, and Tristan Harris — share their experiences on starting a company and raising capital. While being in their 20s may seem to be an obstacle to outsiders, they said they “flipped” this liability into an asset — letting them highlight their innovative ideas and out-of-the-box thinking. Persistent, opportunistic, and scrappy are three adjectives they advise all young entrepreneurs to embody for themselves and their companies.

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It’s not just your strengths as a leader, it’s your passion, says William Hagstrom, CEO of Crescendo Bioscence, in South San Francisco, CA. He strongly advises future entrepreneurs to think of your business as a worthy crusade. Giving example with his own career, he urges those starting a company to architect their venture deeply, form a culture of excellence, and think about risk early. The culmination of his experience has redefined the role of CEO for him as way to empower others.

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David Heineimeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals in Chicago, says that planning is guessing, and for a start-up, the focus must be on today and not on tomorrow. He argues that constraints–fiscal, temporal, or otherwise–drive innovation and effective problem-solving. The most important thing, Hansson believes, is to make a dent in the universe with your company.

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