The Career Channel (Video)

Garrett is a co-founder of Alta, and was also a Partner at Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. founder of Ask.com and a co-founder of Alta Partners. He has more than two decades of experience in the fields of software development, systems engineering and corporate development. Garrett also founded Ask Jeeves, now Ask. Com, a leading Internet search engine which is now part of IAC. Series: "Distinguished Inn...

Keval Desai discusses his 20 year history in Silicon Valley, including time spent at Google and Digg. He relates his experiences in product management with mobile and Internet start-ups. Series: "Distinguished Innovator Lectures" [Business] [Show ID: 23023]

Alex Le, executive producer of CityVille by Zynga, discusses his experiences as an entrepreneur in the era of social network games. Series: "Distinguished Innovator Lectures" [Business] [Show ID: 23022]

Tom Byers brings his passion for teaching and communicating with technology venture students to this talk on his path to entrepreneurship, with anecdotes about both the successful and not so successful experiences that shaped his evolving career. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 22003]

Explore the legal needs of tech starts ups with Lawrence Cohn who represents medical device, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and investors in their corporate transactions, private venture capital and public securities financing, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, strategic alliances, and technology transfers. His clients range from early-stage start-ups to public companies with global...

Jeff Sandefer runs an energy investment firm, Sandefer Capital Partners, that holds over a billion dollars in assets. For the last sixteen years, Mr. Sandefer has also taught entrepreneurship at the graduate level. Four years ago Mr. Sandefer and a band of successful entrepreneurs left a nationally recognized program they had built at the University of Texas to start the Acton School of Business....

Darrell Brown, Senior Vice President, US Bank, argues that in order to teach managers to be successful and prosperous where others fail, one must engage an entrepreneurial mindset in a world that embraces the status quo. Series: "Creativity and Innovation" [Humanities] [Business] [Show ID: 21578]

Rich Lechner Vice President, Energy & Environment, IBM "Sustainability on a Smarter Planet" Abstract The world is becoming increasingly instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent - in a word, 'smarter'. Organizations now have the ability to see the exact condition of practically everything in near real-time and can leverage this information to achieve financial, environmental, social, and opera...

Brett Bullington is a serial entrepreneur currently an active Angel Investor and board member working with entrepreneurs to build their businesses. He is also a board member of Carolina for Kibera, an organization working to alleviate poverty in the Kibera slum of Nairobi. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 22759]

Ann Winblad is one of very few women who are venture capitalists. From a background in the software industry, to the first company she co-founded, Ann built a career that has propelled her into the technology investment arena. Her skills and smarts show how gender has nothing to do with what it takes to become a respected investor with a successful venture company. Series: "Innovator Stories: Crea...

Dave Hofstatter describes how his entrepreneurship, beginning at an early age, took him through the ups and downs of creating, and then investing in, successful technology companies guided only by his wits, his technical skills, and determination. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 22005]

Jon Funk shares his insights into what makes new technology startups appealing to investors and what he’s learned, over the years, from the successes and failures of the companies he’s invested in. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 22004]

Canaan Partners describes themselves as venture catalysts. Join Deepak Kamra as he talks about how he became a venture capitalist, the startups he funded, and the ones that got away. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 21405]

Women hold just 9.5 percent of board seats and highest-paid executive positions in California’s 400 largest public companies. Why? Professor and Associate Dean Michael Maher and Ph. D. candidate Amanda Kimball present findings from the UC Davis Graduate School of Management’s 2010 UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders followed by UC Davis faculty sharing their perspectives on the cor...

Tom Patterson discusses the challenges facing entrepreneurs attempting to launch a web business in the current economic climate. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 20637]

Ted Jenkins, former Vice President and Director of Corporate Licensing, Intel Corp. shares technology career insights. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 15976]