Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar is a weekly speaker series that brings innovation leaders from business, finance, technology, education, and philanthropy, to share their insights with aspiring entrepreneurs from all over the world.
Polly Sumner, president of global services and chief adoption officer at Salesforce.com, and Elizabeth Tinkham, managing director at Accenture Ltd. Chicago, discuss their career paths and offer advice to aspiring entrepreneurs. (March 3, 2010)
Steve Case, co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online (AOL), kicks off Stanford's Entrepreneurship Week (E-Week), discussing his own career and offering advice for aspiring entrepreneurs. (February 24, 2010)
Rashmi Sinha & Jonathan Boutelle, the Co-Founders of SlideShare, discuss how they launched their business and found success with their online presentation sharing software. (February 17, 2010)
Young entrepreneurs Jeff Seibert, Kimber Lockhart, Clara Shih, Steve Garrity, Joshua Reeves, and Tristan Harris discuss their experiences starting companies. (February 10, 2010)
William Hagstrom, CEO of Crescendo Bioscience, discusses his journey from working in a corporation to becoming an entrepreneur. Hagstrom states that passion is more essential than simply having strength. (February 3, 2010)
Elizabeth Pate-Cornell, chair of the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford, discusses risk and risk management from an engineering perspective. (January 27, 2010)
John Adler, Founder of Accuracy, and Trip Adler, Founder and CEO of Scribd, father and son, both successful entrepreneurs, discuss their experiences founding their own businesses. (January 13, 2010)