Ping Li, Partner at Accel, talks about how they evaluated Bit Torrent as a potential venture capital investment. Li suggests that Bit Torrent possessed three things which led to the eventual investment: 1) Deep, distinctive technology and a really meaningful problem, 2) A strong team that had pr...
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Ping Li, Partner at Accel, argues that open source can be an effective business model for some startups although not all startups. Li argues that the key value of an open source model is not the collective input of a broad contributor base--the reality is that the application creator almost alwa...
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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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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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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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Ashwin Navin, Co-founder and President of Bit Torrent, talks about founding teams--where they come from and how to form them. Navin suggests that founding teams emerge from relationships developed in school or work and that founding teams work best when the team members have complimentary skills...
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Ashwin Navin, Co-founder and President of Bit Torrent, alludes to a theory by Bob Cringely about the three stages of a company - Commandos, Infantry and Military Police. Navin suggests that startup success relies on successfully identifying and executing on the demands of each phase, as well as ...
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Yang LiPing is the goddess of dancing, She is the high pristess of nature, She let the spirit of life flowing thru her body Her dance is the expression of the universe as such ... Yang LiPing Spirit of Peacock yang li ping li-ping
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Stages of a Startup
