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How to find your big idea w/Spanx's Sara Blakely
To find your big idea? Look for it. And look for it. And be ready to act. Spanx founder Sara Blakely was actively seeking a business idea when she th…
6 years, 7 months ago
How to solve an impossible challenge, w/Megan Smith (US CTO, Google, shift7)
Faced with an impossible challenge? Don’t reinvent the wheel. Look for someone who’s already solved the problem, and lift them up. Megan Smith calls …
6 years, 8 months ago
LIVE! Find your Trojan horse, w/Robert F. Smith
Recorded live at Summit LA: Every great founder has a second purpose — something outside their main business they're trying to get done in the world.…
6 years, 8 months ago
Ray Dalio: How to embrace conflict
Want to improve any idea? Find someone who disagrees with it. This is something legendary investor Ray Dalio knows. But there’s a difference between …
6 years, 8 months ago
Raise more money than you need, w/Minted's Mariam Naficy
Think you've raised enough money for your startup? Think again. You have to run through a minefield of unexpected expenses as an entrepreneur. And yo…
6 years, 8 months ago
How to set the drumbeat, w/LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner
Every leader has to set the drumbeat for their company — the culture, mission, and values that get the entire team in sync. And the rhythm has to be …
6 years, 9 months ago
Bill Gates: How to accelerate history (Part 1)
How did Bill Gates scale BOTH a global business and a global philanthropy? He spotted an inflection point in history — and accelerated it. What does …
6 years, 9 months ago
Make it epic, w/will.i.am
What can entrepreneurs learn from a genre-crossing, multi-platinum musician? How to take a big opportunity — and leverage it into something epic. Fro…
6 years, 9 months ago
LIVE! Patience or speed? Both. w/Tory Burch
Tory Burch built a billion-dollar business from the ground up, by speeding forward when others might have hit pause, and showing watchful patience wh…
6 years, 10 months ago
Keep humans in the equation, w/TaskRabbit's Stacy Brown-Philpot
You may think that to scale you need to cut humans out of the equation. The opposite is true. You can harness the power of the "human cloud" to solve…
6 years, 10 months ago