Transcript of What They Don’t Teach in Business School about Entrepreneurship – Part of 2010 Conference on Entrepreneurship at Stanford GSB…
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Chuck Holloway – Professor, Stanford GSB
A session on what they don’t teach in business school about entrepreneurship. Having taught entrepreneurship in Stanford business school for something like 13 years, I can tell you there’s a lot. Some of it we know we don’t teach, and some of it we probably should teach if we knew a little more about the subject. So, I think it’s a very pertinent subject today. So Mike, why don’t you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about what you did, and just remember, I’ve got a little bio here. So if you don’t include things, I can include it, and if you do include things that, that aren’t in here, I may question you on it.
Mike Cassidy: Okay. It’s like the Senate Investigation Committee.
Chuck Holloway: Exactly. Except you’re not sitting out there.
Mike Cassidy: I do have lights flashing at me. So I’ve been the CEO and co-founder of four startups. I was very lucky with the first three. One was, the first one was, I started with $500 of myself and each of my two partners putting $500 so we had $1,500. We started in my second year of business school at the Stanford of the East Coast, in Boston.
Chuck Holloway: You’re very kind.
Mike Cassidy: We never raised venture capital. It started as a company called Dial A Fish. It was where you could order groceries from home. It was insane. This was before the internet and everything. We eventually sold it for — we had to change direction because that was not going to work into a computer telephony tool. We sold it for $13 million a few years later, which was tiny for Silicon Valley standards, but, a fair New England return on the $1,500 investment.
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