Ted Zoller (Kauffman Foundation) - Building an Entrepreneurial Career

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

🗓️ 1 February 2012

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Kauffman Foundation Senior Fellow Ted Zoller challenges Stanford students to engage in entrepreneurship as a practice of action. Based on his research into dealmaker density and network development, Zoller details the power of seizing opportunities and the pathways to developing an entrepreneurial career.

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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	.
0:17.0	I'm pleased to introduce our speaker for today.
0:21.6	Ted Zohler, he's a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation.
0:25.6	Have you heard of the Kauffman Foundation?
0:27.6	They're probably the most important entrepreneurship-related foundation or NGO in the United States,
0:34.6	and one of the leading ones on the planet. In fact, there would not be, if you ever watch these videos on E-Corner,
0:43.3	we like you, you always encourage you to do that at eCorder.
0:45.3	at www.d.u.
0:46.3	That wouldn't happen if it had not been seed money from the Coffin Foundation to us 10 years ago. So there's been a long wonderful
0:56.3	relationship between that enterprise and our university. Ted is a senior fellow there
1:03.9	doing research, so he's going to share some of that with us today, which is terrific.
1:07.7	But he's also the leader of our counterpart, meaning the Stanford Technology of Interest program,
1:12.9	he's the leader of that at UNC Chapel Hill.
1:16.4	But he's an educator, so we love educators.
1:19.2	And I just found out he's also writing for Inc. Magazine.
1:23.3	So without further ado, let's welcome Ted Zoller to Stanford.
1:26.4	Thank you.
1:27.4	Thanks, Tom.
1:29.3	It's a lot.
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