Geoff Yang (Redpoint Ventures) - Timing Matters

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

🗓️ 17 October 2012

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Venture capitalist Geoff Yang challenges entrepreneurs to "think huge" and to complete the due diligence necessary to understand markets they plan to enter. Yang dispels myths about relationships between founders and investors and encourages new entrepreneurs to be thoughtful about taking on outside capital and engaging venture capitalists.

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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.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	It is my incredible honor to introduce our guest today.
0:21.6	Jeff Yang is a founding partner at Red Point Ventures.
0:25.6	And his focus is on consumer media and infrastructure.
0:29.6	The thing that most be relevant to you is that he was also an engineering student.
0:33.6	He got an engineering degree from Princeton and then got his MBA at Stanford Business School.
0:38.3	I'm sure he's got a lot to share with us.
0:40.3	Jeff.
0:41.3	Thank you.
0:42.3	Thank you.
0:45.3	It's a pleasure to be here with you all.
0:49.3	My contact information is here, as is my Twitter handle.
0:53.3	And if you don't follow me, feel free if you'd like to.
0:58.0	If you do, I apologize for all the spam that came out today.
1:02.0	Apparently somebody hacked my Twitter account and was throwing out all this advice on how to lose 20 pounds in two weeks.
1:09.0	And I actually didn't realize how many friends I had
1:11.6	because I had a whole mailbox full of direct messages
1:14.6	earlier on Twitter.
1:16.6	And people said, people were asking all about,
1:19.6	you know, all these nutrients and things.
1:21.6	And the next thing, you know, I guess it's nice to hear
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