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Silicon Valley Startup School

Време21. фебруар 2007. 13:00
ПредавачKevin Laws, MBA of MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, "Silicon Valley Startup School"
МестоSvečana sala Građevinskog fakulteta u Beogradu

The talk is about what it takes for a new graduate to make it at a fast-moving venture startup. The first year or two out of school is actually a continuation of a student''s education, not the end of it. In startups, graduates will learn how to take the technical and practical knowledge from school and apply it to building real businesses. Startups are a special, accelerated world where that can happen much more quickly. However, there are some very important lessons students should keep in mind before working at a startup. Given the experiences Vast.com has had building a top team in Belgrade, the issues we face with every new graduate are similar. This speech prepares graduates for what kind of expectations they will face in a startup, and how that is different from what many think when they begin.

Speaker Biography:

Kevin Laws is the Chief Operating Officer of the Silicon Valley Vast.com, a company with 30 employees in Belgrade. He was previously Vice President, Products, at Epinions.com (IPO in 2004 as Shopping.com, bought by Ebay in 2005 for $600 million), and was a Venture Capital investor in startups for 5 years in between. He started as a software engineer for Computer Sciences Corporation in Germany over 15 years ago, and worked as a strategy consultant with Booz-Allen & Hamilton for media &entertainment companies for 5 years as well. He has also taught economics to incoming MBA students at MIT and taught the New Venture Finance course to MBA students at San Francisco State University. Mr. Laws has a degree in Computer Science from Dickinson College, a Master''s Degree in International Relations from Boston University, and an MBA from MIT.