What it Takes to Launch a Successful Venture: Top Takeaways from 30 Years of Coaching Entrepreneurs

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Summary

Mike Lyons, Ray Levitt, and James Currier discuss what their experience as founders and investors have taught them about entrepreneurship and how to teach it.

In this fireside chat, they talk about what makes some founders thrive and others flounder. Drawing from more than three decades as startup founders, investors, and in the classroom, they also share insights into how they teach students to be entrepreneurs.


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The Stanford Gradute Course: Venture Creation for the Real Economy.
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Mike Lyons

Mike Lyons is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Stanford Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is a serial entrepreneur, 12 companies, and a venture capitalist across five different funds. He founded Safeview, acquired by L3-Harris then Leidos-the airport standard of physical security. He is currently chairman of two high tech startups, a General Partner with NativeFirst Capital, and Managing Director of Newline Ventures, an incubator. He was the founding professor of MSE273/CEE 246 Tech Venture Formation, now Venture Creation for the Real Economy. He has built numerous programs for SCPD and is co-founder of Idea to Market (I2M).

Ray Levitt

Dr. Levitt served on the faculty of MIT's Civil Engineering Dept. from 1975-1980, and on the Civil & Environmental Engineering faculty at Stanford from 1980-2017. Levitt founded and was Academic Director of the Stanford Advanced Project Management (SAPM) executive education certificate program, which awarded more than 9,000 certificates to mid-career professionals in a wide variety of industry sectors from 1999-2018. During his time at Stanford, Levitt co-founded three software startups. He is President of the Farmers Investment Club, an angel investment group of Stanford faculty and affiliates. Upon retiring from Stanford in 2017, Levitt became an Operating Partner at Blackhorn Ventures, and has led the firm’s early-stage investments in more than 20 startups focused on the construction and real estate sectors.

James Currier

James is a five-time Founder, an angel investor in DoorDash, Lyft, and Patreon, and a Founding Partner at NFX. Before becoming an investor, James was the co-founder and CEO of Tickle, one of the internet’s first successful user-generated companies. James has co-founded three other successful companies – Wonderhill, IronPearl, and Jiff. As a lifelong learner and developer of talent, James loves sharing wisdom among Founders.

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