Greed and Capitalism

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.
- Milton Friedman

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Bill Coleman: Silicon Valley From Past to Present


Bill
Coleman has one of the longest track records of success in Silicon
Valley, as both an entrepreneur and investor. Bill was founder and CEO
of BEA Systems, founder and CEO of Cassatt Corporation, partner at
venture capital firm Alsop Louie Partners, and is now CEO of Veritas.

MS&E 476: Entrepreneurship through the Lens of Venture Capital

We
often discuss how technology is reinvented and disrupted, but there is
also a good amount of change occurring within the venture capital
industry. Within the past several decades there have been new entrants,
from incubators to angels to different models of venture capital.

The
course explores changes in the venture capital industry: from the rise
of Sand Hill Road and investing in the dot-com bubble, to incubators and
accelerators, equity crowd funding platform, and different models of
venture capital today.






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