Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
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In our first-ever ETL Research bonus episode, we look at one of the first empirical studies of lean startup. In a recent paper published in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, researchers Michael Leatherbee and Riitta Katila find that lean startup’s emphasis on “customer discovery” — that is, directly testing business hypotheses with potential costumers during product development — does help teams converge on business ideas. They also find that MBAs are both hesitant to embrace the method and especially successful when they choose to employ it. Katila is a professor in Stanford’s Department of Management Science and Engineering and research director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and Leatherbee is a professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile as well as President of the Advisory Board for Startup Chile. In this conversation they are joined by Stanford adjunct professor Steve Blank, whose Lean Launchpad class and 2003 book The Four Steps to the Epiphany were foundational to the lean startup movement.
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Qasar Younis (Applied Intuition) - Radically Pragmatic Insights
Sharon Prince (Grace Farms Foundation) - Designing From Values
Sophia Edelstein and Nathan Kondamuri (Pair Eyewear) - From Stanford Students to Co-CEOs
Clara Shih (Salesforce AI) - What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship
Shiza Shahid (Our Place) - A Meaningful Entrepreneurial Path
Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) - ‘Helpful, Honest, Harmless’ AI
Ernestine Fu (Brave Capital) - Taking Action for Startup Success
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Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao (Stanford) - Smart Leaders Understand Friction [EXPLICIT]
Adrian Rodriguez (Dreamlinks) - A Visually Impaired Founder’s Journey
Jessica Jackley (Kiva and Untapped Capital) - ‘What If?’ Changes the World
Sarah Lamaison (Dioxycle) - Climate Tech Insights
Michelle Lee (Medra) - From Conviction to Company
Andy Dunn (Bonobos) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs
Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford) - Strategy for New Companies
Andrew Ng (AI Fund) - The Near Future of AI
Garry Tan (Y Combinator) - Unconventional Advice for Founders
Cody Coleman (Coactive AI) - Starting from ‘Why’
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