Mike Rothenberg (Rothenberg Ventures) - Blue is Where You Should Be

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2015

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Mike Rothenberg, founder and CEO of Rothenberg Ventures, describes the entrepreneurial approach he took in starting his firm and how failures along the way were actually opportunities to reset. He also explains the business concept of red versus blue ocean, where the latter represents an uncharted market that entrepreneurs should swim toward at all costs.

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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 eCorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	Today we have a super special guest.
0:21.3	In fact, it is super special to me because Mike Rotherberg, 10 years ago, was on this stage.
0:28.3	But he was not on this stage as a speaker.
0:30.3	He was on this stage because he was a student who was leading the basis team that worked on this lecture series.
0:38.3	So 10 years ago, he was sitting here like these other students,
0:41.3	imagining that sometime in the future he would be here as a speaker.
0:45.3	And it has happened.
0:47.3	Since then, 10 years ago, he graduated from Stanford School of Engineering.
0:51.3	He went on to Harvard Business School.
0:53.3	And soon after, he graduated from Harvard Business School,
0:56.7	he started Rothenper Ventures, which he calls the millennial
1:00.8	VC firm.
1:01.9	I'm sure we're going to learn a little bit about what that means.
1:04.9	But it's not just 10 years ago since Mike was here on the stage
1:08.8	as a student.
1:10.1	Today is also his 31st birthday.
1:12.9	So please join me and welcome you, Mike,
1:14.8	and wishing him a wonderful birthday.
1:23.1	Hey, everybody.
1:26.8	Hi. Yes, as Tina mentioned, Hey everybody.
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