Noam Wasserman (Harvard Business School) - The Founder's Dilemmas

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

🗓️ 31 October 2012

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Drawing on a decade of research and interviews with company founders, Harvard Business School Associate Professor Noam Wasserman explores many of the momentous early decisions and pitfalls faced by entrepreneurs and investors. Wasserman outlines paths and options for founders, with an emphasis on the frequently challenging people issues that can inhibit startup success.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series,
0:07.0	brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.
0:15.0	.
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0:18.0	Noam Osserman is one of the leading teachers, researchers about entrepreneurship in the world.
0:26.6	He's got a best-selling book called The Founder's Dilemma that I'd encourage you to read.
0:30.6	I've assigned it to one of my classes.
0:33.6	He began his career at the Harvard Business School 15 years ago as an MBA.
0:40.3	The faculty that quickly identified somebody that they knew would be a world-class teacher
0:44.3	and asked him if he would join them.
0:46.3	And he got his doctorate, began teaching soon after, and he's been just making the world better ever since.
0:53.3	So, Noam, come on up. I don't want to spend any more time than I have to.
0:55.7	Noam, awesome.
0:57.0	Awesome.
1:02.2	Thank you, Tom.
1:03.2	Thank you to the other Tom.
1:05.4	Thank you to Tina.
1:06.1	Thank you to Matt and everyone else who's been arranging everything for reaching out,
1:09.7	asking me to come up here.
1:11.4	I'm going to drive the cameraman crazy because I tend to roam the room.
1:15.8	My wife actually gets very excited when our semester is starting because she knows that
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