Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Posted by
Ray Leach
I start many mornings each week with an elliptical workout that includes listening to podcasts to see what I can learn. One of the podcast series that I consistently listen to is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series produced by Stanford's University Entrepreneurship Center. Every week a new podcast is released of a recent lecture given at the University by incredible speakers - from successful entrepreneurs to big names in venture capital.
This week, the podcast titled "Retooling Early Stage Development" really made an impact on me, as Steve Blank comments on the illogic most venture-backed companies operate under versus really understanding the needs of the market and their initial customers.
All stakeholders of entrepreneurship can benefit from listening to the insightful people Stanford brings in to speak to their MBA students. These podcasts are not to be missed!
Ray Leach is CEO of JumpStart and brings his energy and leadership experiences from founding five high-growth entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial endeavors in the last 20 years. Ray is a Sloan Fellow and earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He also earned a BA in Finance from the University of Akron.