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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. (6:00 – 7:30). How did you get into VC? (9:30

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. which we call problem curation. “Is Innovators are not entrepreneurs. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem. How can corporations work more closely with universities?

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. The Past (1985-2002). AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. The Present Era.