At Stanford University since 1995, Professor Tom Byers focuses on education regarding principled entrepreneurship and responsible technology innovation. He is the first holder of the Entrepreneurship Professorship endowed chair in the School of Engineering and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. He has been a faculty director since the
This was a fun and interesting session. Diana White, incidentally, was a talented interviewer … a natural. Ordinarily “10 Lessons it took me 50 years to learn” is about inspiring and insightful life lessons (or business lessons) from experienced leaders. And originally I did indeed provide my own personal “10
Dr. Thomas Duening is the El Pomar Chair for Business & Entrepreneurship, associate professor of management, and director of the Center for Entrepreneurship - at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs - College of Business.
Trish Costello is founder and CEO of Portfolia, the leading venture investing platform designed for women. Trish founded Portfolia with a vision to activate the capital of women to invest in the companies we want in the world. Portfolia now has 13 funds and has made 92 investments in 66
And the 1 phrase you should say Today’s startup entrepreneurs — the one’s who are risking it all to build breakthrough products, with the potential the change the world and improve the lives of millions —they endure a more intensive kind of entrepreneurship. The pace, the stress, the uncertainty and the existential isolation,
Mark Moeremans serves as the Senior Vice President of Entrepreneurship and Venture Development at the Arizona Commerce Authority. An alum of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business Mark has brought his experience as a private equity operating executive to the public sector. An innovator and economic development leader, Mark oversees the
David S. Rose is an Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and investor who has founded or funded over 100 pioneering companies. He has been described by Forbes as “New York’s Archangel”, by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering entrepreneur”, by Crain’s New York Business as “the father of angel investing
Jason Fried is the cofounder and president of Basecamp (formerly 37signals — and currently 37Signals! ) — a privately held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based tools possible with the least number of features necessary. With David Heinemeier Hansson, Fried is the coauthor of Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to
Swati Chaturvedi is the co-founder and CEO of Propel(x) — an investment platform that enables accredited investors worldwide to invest in startups and venture capital funds. Ms. Chaturvedi has a long history of working in the alternative investments space and is the founder of the MIT Alumni Angel Investors group.
Heidi Roizen is a venture capitalist, corporate director and former technology CEO/entrepreneur. Today, Heidi is a partner at leading venture firm Threshold Ventures and serves as a board member for private companies Upside Foods, Lumity and Polarr, all in the Threshold portfolio. She is currently also an independent corporate director