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Serial entrepreneur Mitch Kapor encourages start-ups not to compete with giants.  Instead, the young upstart should consider how it could benefit by working in concert with their giant's footsteps.  He cites as an example his own young enterprise, Foxmarks, which tracks search trends through the amalgamation of Firefox bookmarks.
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Mitch Kapor
Foxmarks
Mitch Kapor has been at the forefront of the information technology revolution for a generation as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist, and philanthropist.

Most recently, Mr. Kapor founded Foxmarks, an upcoming search engine based on bookmarks and related metadata. He received a B.A. from Yale College in 1971 and studied psychology, linguistics, and computer science as part of a major in Cybernetics. He attended the Sloan School of Management at MIT before leaving for a Silicon Valley startup. Mr. Kapor founded Lotus Development Corp. in 1982 and with Jonathan Sachs created Lotus 1-2-3, which made the PC ubiquitous in business in the 1980's.

In 1990, he co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He founded the Mitchell Kapor Foundation in 1997 and the Open Source Applications Foundation in 2001. He became the founding Chair of the Mozilla Foundation in 2003 and is a trustee of the Level Playing Field Institute. From 1994-1996, he served as Adjunct Professor at the MIT Media Lab. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Kapor was a partner at Accel. In 2006, he became an Adjunct Professor at the School of Information at Berkeley. Mr. Kapor has contributed pieces on information infrastructure policy, intellectual property, and antitrust in the digital era topublications such as Scientific American, The New York Times, and Forbes.

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  1. Lecture 1: Competing with Giants

    Serial entrepreneur Mitch Kapor encourages start-ups not to compete with giants. Instead, the young upstart should consi…


  2. Lecture 2: A Successful Business Solves Problems

    A solid business model can't survive long-term if it just draws traffic. Serial entrepreneur Mitch Kapor points out that…


  3. Lecture 3: Disadvantages of Venture Capital

    While entrepreneur and former Lotus 1-2-3 founder Mitch Kapor understands how selling finance can boost a burgeoning ent…


  4. Lecture 4: Choosing an Investor

    Selecting a financial partner for your growing enterprise should be as careful a process as selecting a member of your s…


  5. Lecture 5: The Great Talent Vacuum Cleaner

    Former Lotus 1-2-3 founder Mitch Kapor has launched a number of new ventures, and he knows firsthand the difficulty of c…


  6. Lecture 6: The Value of Company Culture

    Former Lotus 1-2-3 founder Mitch Kapor speaks candidly about the most valuable legacy of his wildly successful 1980's te…


  7. Lecture 7: Social Responsibility from the Ground Up

    Social entrepreneur Mitch Kapor believes that social responsibility must be integrated into the organization, and not ju…


  8. Lecture 8: Balancing Information Asymmetry for the Entrepreneur

    Mitch Kapor has been an entrepreneur since the 1980's, and here he pinpoints useful websites, educational programs, and…



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