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15 Opportunity recognition Videos
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Finding and Evaluating an Idea
gsb.stanford.edu— — “Often the hardest part about starting a new business is coming up with a good idea. What environmental clues should you look for to help make the process easier?”
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Trends and Opportunities in Consumer Internet
gsb.stanford.edu— — “Panel include management team members from Ebay, Paypal, Youtube,and Facebook and include factors such as success factors and innovation”
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Trends and Opportunities in Mobile Technologies
gsb.stanford.edu— — “Moderator: Janice Roberts, Mayfield Fund, Joel Jewitt, Good Technology, Jim Madsen, NextWave Wireless, Dipchand Nishar, Google Inc, Scott Raney, Redpoint Ventures”
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Identifying Retail Opportunities
gsb.stanford.edu— — “This panel gives suggestions on potential opportunities for businesses in the retail sector”
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Identifying HealthCare Opportunities
gsb.stanford.edu— — “This panel gives suggestions on potential opportunities for businesses in the healthcare sector”
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Identifying Energy Opportunities
gsb.stanford.edu— — “This panel gives suggestions on potential opportunities for businesses in the energy sector”
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Identifying Education Opportunities
gsb.stanford.edu— — “This panel gives suggestions on potential opportunities for businesses in education.”
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Finding the Idea
gsb.stanford.edu— — “This short video gives suggestions on how to find an idea for a new venture”
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Identifying the Idea
gsb.stanford.edu— — “The hardest part about starting a new business is often coming up with a good idea”
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Paul Bennett: Design is in the details
ted.com— — “Showing a series of inspiring, unusual and playful products, British branding and design guru Paul Bennett explains that design doesn’t have to be about grand gestures, but can solve small, universal and overlooked problems”
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Charles Leadbeater: The rise of the amateur professional
ted.com— — “In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn’t just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can’t.”
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Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia
ted.com— — “Jimmy Wales assembled “a ragtag band of volunteers,” gave them tools for collaborating, and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished encyclopedia of the future.”
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Seeing Failure as Opportunity
edcorner.stanford.edu— — “Neeleman tells the story of his first startup failure during college, and the airline partner he was working went out of business. He shortly thereafter received a call from June Morris, who encouraged him to come and build Morris Air”
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Timing is Important: The Same Idea Can Have Different Fates
edcorner.stanford.edu— — “Kaplan says that every idea is repeatedly proposed. Timing of an idea is very important and very difficult to call”
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Any Big Problem is a Big Opportunity
edcorner.stanford.edu— — “Khosla states that any big problem is a big opportunity. If there is no problem, there is no solution, and no reason for a company to exist”