Tom Byers - High-Growth Technology Ventures - Stanford

The relationship between Stanford and Silicon Valley is just amazing, it's been going on for decades.  It's an amazing ecosystem of innovation and company creation.  

http://techventures.stanford.edu/

http://www.technologyventures.org/

Top 10 Elements of Technology Entrepreneurship for High-Growth Innovation

http://engineering.stanford.edu/pubs/TopTenEshipLessons_Byers_2010_5322.pdf

Built to Last:

http://www.amazon.com/Built-Last-Successful-Visionary-Companies/dp/0887307396

Good to Great

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Companies-Leap-Others/dp/0066620996

Ideas:  Product and Market Strategy

Talent: Team and Culture

Capital: Cash Flow and Venture Finance

The best time to start a company is during a down turn.  

Environment and Sustainability

Security and Economic stability

Digital and Physical infrastructure

Human Health and Education

Waves of Innovation:

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th wave.

What is your competitive positioning and how are you developing your partners and customers?

Blank's customer development model

Steve Blank

Show me that the customers really have this problem.....    You need to make sure that customers really need this service..??

Articulate a customer development process to verify that you actually have a viable customer....

Crossing the Chasm

TYPES OF RISK:   

(WHICH DO YOU HAVE. . . )

TEAM RISK

CAPITAL RISK

MARKET RISK

TECHNOLOGICAL RISK

Bill Sahlman

http://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurial-Venture-Practice-Management/dp/0875848923/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280956361&sr=1-2