Students have a great opportunity being on campus to get to know people really well. And the relationships that you’re going to build here are going to be valuable for a long time after you live. So being in this environment, being in Silicon Valley, and a long heritage here at Stanford of Entre...
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He talks about new companies in three stages. Basically in the first stage, what you really want are the commandos. Those that don’t obey any rules, they take the beach, and they break everything. And they do things that in many ways what most people would consider irrational. And I view that as...
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From an investment perspective, we’ve invested quite a bit in open sourced models. J Boss and Zen Source are two recent ones, and a slope of others. And I think open source is not a model for every business, so don't every go start of with open source businesses. But I think there are certain dy...
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I would say more entrepreneurs are commandos like Ashwin. The reality is we got comfortable on a couple of dimensions. One is we saw that there’s a huge opportunity here, with some really fundamental deep technology, solving a really big problem. That's kind of the first order bit that you have ...
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