Bjoern Herrmann: Benchmarking Female Startups

Video interview with Bjoern Herrmann.  Bjoern is the 26 year-old founder of the Startup Genome. One year ago he & his team set out to find a scalable way to accelerate businesses across the world. After releasing two research reports on success & failure of startups that were downloaded 25,000 times he most recently released the first software product that is best described as a virtual mentor for now more than 13,000 software businesses. The published research has been adopted by more than 50 universities globally -including Stanford and Berkeley. Harvard Business School Professor Thomas Eisenmann called the findings an important contribution. You can try the product at Startup Compass Genome and learn more about the research at their blog. Before, Bjoern founded and led 4 for and nonprofit ventures in Germany, Bangladesh & the US. He also worked as an executive in Russia for one year for a mid sized marketing company. His personal passion or “leitmotif” is: unleashing human potential. His higher purpose is to strive to maximize the capitalization of every single individual. You can find Bjoern on Twitter @bjoernlasse

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Vinod Khosla: Energy Transformation #TIECon

Vinod Khosla, Founder Khosla Ventures, speaking on ‘Energy Transformation’ @TIE Conference 2011.  Vinod is a charter member of TiE, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals founded in 1992 that now has more than forty chapters in nine countries. He is also a founding board member of the Indian School of Business. His current passion is social entrepreneurship, with a special emphasis on microfinance as a poverty alleviation tool. He is a supporter of many microfinance organizations in India and Africa. He has been experimenting with education and global housing. Vinod is also passionate about alternative energy, petroleum independence, and the environment. You can find Vinod on Twitter @vkhosla

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Mashup TIE Conference 2011 #TIECon

Mashup of TIE Conference 2011 featuring Kindra Tatarsky, Vice President, ASTIA Silicon Valley; Cathy Lego, Founder Lego Ventures, Vinod Khosla, Founder Khosla Ventures;Drew Houston, Founder Dropbox; Salman Khan, Founder Khan Academy & some great Indian dancers.

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