Videos for Sessions 1 to 3

SEGMENT 1 - For help in finding a team go to http://venture-lab.org
Remaining videos will come one session per week.

Session 1

Course Overview: Silicon Valley and Key Frameworks

• Videos
• Video 1 - Overview
• If you use a supported browser, you can view Youtube videos via the YouTube HTML5 Video Player, which may be more accessible for keyboard and assistive technology users. This can also be used to playback the video at a faster rate of speed.  

[Transcript download]
Slides

               

• Business models
• If you use a supported browser, you can view Youtube videos via the YouTube HTML5 Video Player, which may be more accessible for keyboard and assistive technology users.


• Video 2
• If you use a supported browser, you can view Youtube videos via the YouTube HTML5 Video Player, which may be more accessible for keyboard and assistive technology users.
[Transcript download]
Slides
        


• Video 3
• If you use a supported browser, you can view Youtube videos via the YouTube HTML5 Video Player, which may be more accessible for keyboard and assistive technology users.
[Transcript download]
Slides
        
 
• Video 4 - This video encourages you to set up a blog - do NOT do this just yet, we will provide more detailed instructions for how to do this so that they can be aggregated more easily.
• If you use a supported browser, you can view Youtube videos via the YouTube HTML5 Video Player, which may be more accessible for keyboard and assistive technology users.
[Transcript download]
       
 
• Video 5: Building the Team
• If you use a supported browser, you can view Youtube videos via the YouTube HTML5 Video Player, which may be more accessible for keyboard and assistive technology users.
[Transcript download]
Slides

       
 
• Instagram cofounders on Startup Ideas
• Recommended Reading
• Ch. 1.1, 1.2, 1.5
• Ch. 2.1, 2.4
• The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar, Prologue, Preface, and Chapters 1-3
• Additional Resources (optional)
• "The Secret History of Silicon Valley," Steve Blank, Nov 20, 20008. 
• It's Not the People You Know. It's Where You Are, Randall Stross, NYT, Oct 22, 2006. 
• "When it Comes to Innovation, Geography is Destiny," Pascal Zachary, NYT, Feb 11, 2007.
• "Growth of a Silicon Empire", Henry Norr. 
• Fred Terman at Stanford 
• More videos on ECorner on team and culture

Session 2

Creativity and Improvisation

• Videos
• Video of talk by Kirsten Leute from the Stanford Office of Technology Licensing
• If you use a supported browser, you can view Youtube videos via the YouTube HTML5 Video Player, which may be more accessible for keyboard and assistive technology users.
[Transcript download]


• Video 2-1
• If you use a supported browser, you can view Youtube videos via the YouTube HTML5 Video Player, which may be more accessible for keyboard and assistive technology users.
[Transcript download]


• Video 2-2 
• If you use a supported browser, you can view Youtube videos via the YouTube HTML5 Video Player, which may be more accessible for keyboard and assistive technology users.
[Transcript download]
• Assignment
• Submit first assignment at http://venture-lab.org or in the comments on these posts "best" ideas and "worst ideas" by 4/16, 12:00pm noon PST (UTC-8)
• Recommended Reading
• Ch. 3.1-3.4, Ch. 5.3-5.5, 6.2, 6.3
• Brainstorming Rules, Stanford Design Institute, Jul 26, 2009.
• Additional Resources
• Brainstorming Fundamentals, Stanford Design Institute
• More videos on ECorner on Creativity

SEGMENT 2

Session 3

From Idea to Opportunity:

• Videos
• Video 2-3
• If you use a supported browser, you can view Youtube videos via the YouTube HTML5 Video Player, which may be more accessible for keyboard and assistive technology users.
•  [Transcript download]
• Video 3-1
• (note that we will not be doing case discussions, so you should pay more attention to the business models section in the 2nd half)
  If you use a supported browser, you can view Youtube videos via the YouTube HTML5 Video Player, which may be more accessible for keyboard and assistive technology users.
   [Transcript download] 


E145 Session 3 on Prezi
• Recommended Reading
• Ch. 4.1, 4.4-4.6, 4.8, 9.3-9.4
• Assignment
• Submit 2nd assignment (commercial for another team's worst idea) at http://venture-lab.org by 4/23, 6:00pm (18:00) PST (UTC-8)
• Startup the OAP project - form your main project team, begin brainstorming and deciding on a startup idea for the OAP project. For help in finding a team go to http://venture-lab.org
• Your team should update a blog each week with the hypothesis you tested, what experiment(s) you ran, and what the outcome was. Start with talking to potential customers.
• Additional Resources
• More videos on ECorner on opportunity recognition