Ann Miura-Ko (FLOODGATE) - Funding Thunder Lizard Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2010

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Stanford Engineering lecturer and FLOODGATE partner Ann Miura-Ko offers insight into the democratization of innovation in the Internet age, and its affect on investment cycles. Additionally, Miura-Ko speaks candidly about the need to test business models, her firm's desire to be an advocate for "thunder lizard" entrepreneurs, and the challenges of achieving true work/life balance.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.2	I'm Steve Blank. I'm your host today. I teach MSN 878, the spirit of entrepreneurship, the class that wraps around this class. And today we're honored to have Anne Murakow of Floodgate Ventures. I've been proud to know Anne for the last couple of years. Her career has been incredibly
0:42.3	distinguished and its rapid rise is due to her extraordinary talents, which you'll see on display today.
0:49.3	Ann has an engineering degree from Yale, worked at McKinsey, was an analyst at Charles River Ventures,
0:57.0	went back here to Stanford to get her PhD where I met her as my teaching assistant,
1:02.0	and then realized that my teaching assistant was, unfortunately, for me, much smarter than I was.
1:09.0	And so to get her out of my classroom, I actually introduced her to her partner, Mike Maples,
1:13.8	at Floodgate Ventures, and thought that would be the end of her.
1:17.9	But fortunately for all students here at Stanford, Ann is going to be back next year as we
1:23.3	teach in the winter quarter a new class on how to actually launch and build companies called
1:28.2	the E245 for any of you interested. I'll be there, but the most interesting person in the room
1:34.7	is the one that's been called the most powerful woman in venture capital, which I actually
1:40.6	think is a derogatory term because she's actually the smartest person in venture capital than I happen to know.
1:47.0	So with that buildup, Anne, let's see what the next hour is going to be.
1:51.0	So Anne Miracle.
1:53.0	Thanks so much, Steve.
1:56.0	Hi, it's great to be here this afternoon and it's really wonderful to see so many familiar
2:02.0	faces in the audience. I actually had a really amazing set of slides that you guys would
2:09.2	have learned tremendously from, but as it may happen, my hardware all crashed about 20 minutes
2:17.4	ago. And so now I'm in a position where
2:20.3	I have to wing it. And so I'll show you some of my ninja assassin skills today. So there
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