Tweeter @tristanwalker and VC @jeffclavier speak at Stanford today. @tristanwalker (right), 2nd year GSB student, discussed his work at foursquare—location based mobile social gaming app winning over Pepsi, Bravo, and loads of brand marketers and content providers. He spent last summer at Twitter writing up their business guide and picked up 315K Twitter followers since ...
Jessica Jackley co-founder of Kiva.org speaks at http://bit.ly/postw10 today. Former temp at the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford GSB went Africa to help document effects of micro grants. She started Kiva.org with her husband to do what they could in micro-finance. She then started her MBA at Stanford in 2005 and during that ...
Avinash Kaushik began blogging on web analytics in 2006. Wiley called him to turn it into a book, Web Analytics an Hour a Day. He wrote it in 7 weekends working 7am to 9pm. Royalties from the project, ~$90K after 2 years, go to his favorite charities. His second book, Web Analytics 2.0, donated $16K ...
John Doerr said something like ”Email me three books you like read, and I’ll email you a list of my favorites as well”. He spoke last week at the GSB with fellow Kleiner Perkins partners Trae Vassallo and Chi-Hua Chien. Above: (left) Trae Vassallo; (right) John Doerr It’s days like these when I can’t believe ...