Building a Team and Picking the Right VCs
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Worthington talks about how the founders understood that the key to creating a successful company was picking only the very best people at every level of the company, especially the VCs and Board of Directors. Gajus sacrificed time (it took a year and a half to recruit some board members) and money (settling for a lower valuation from a better VC) to assemble the right team.
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Lectures
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Lecture 1: Forming the Founding Team and Seizing the Opportunity
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Lecture 2: The Breakthrough Idea
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Lecture 3: Breaking Convention: Technology First, Market Opportunity Second
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Lecture 4: Building a Team and Picking the Right VCs
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Lecture 5: The Challenges of Building a Company
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Lecture 6: Product Development
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Lecture 7: Keeping a Financial Focus
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Lecture 8: Raising Money and Recognizing Interest in VCs
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Lecture 9: Can You Continually Increase Value?
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Lecture 10: Recruiting the Best
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Lecture 11: Challenges of Managing: Firing People
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Lecture 12: How to Recruit Top Talent
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Lecture 13: To MBA or Not?: Technical Degree or MBA
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Lecture 14: Envisioning the Future: Other Potential Applications of the Technology
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Lecture 15: Lowest Lows and Highest Highs
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Lecture 16: Going Global: Why Singapore?
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Lecture 17: Founding Team: Technical or Business Saavy?
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Lecture 18: Experimenting with New Technologies
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Lecture 19: Finding a Market
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Lecture 20: Disposable vs. Reusable in Biology
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Lecture 21: Establishing a Market
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Lecture 22: How Do You Establish a Decision-Making Process?
Instructor
Gajus Worthington
Fluidigm
Before co-founding Fluidigm, as Mycometrix, Mr. Worthington held a variety of engineering, operations and marketing positions at Actel Corporation, which designs, develops and markets field programmab…
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