Last week Leslie Brinkley, a Reporter for KGO News Radio, came to a training session of the Silicon Valley Founder Institute to give her listeners an inside look at the program. In the peice, Leslie speaks to current participants and Mentors, Graduates, and Adeo Ressi to describe the program. According to Adeo, "This is not an MBA program where you learn great theory - this is a really practical school of 'hard-knocks.'"
Listen to an mp3 of the recording here.
Other great soundbytes include;
"It takes the whole 'climbing the corporate ladder' out of it, and so you instead build the ladder"
- Maren Kate Donovan, Founder & CEO of Zirtual, and Graduate of the Silicon Valley Founder Institute
"Whether you have a stupid idea or a great idea it will still be the same amount of work, so if you can find out that you have a bad idea before you waste 10 years of your life, that's a good thing"
- Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, and Mentor at the Founder Institute
"It has really institutionalized one of the things that is special about Silicon Valley, which is the ability to get an audience of people who have done it before. The most valuable information you are going to get is from someone who has been an entrepreneur. It's not about a theory... it's about 'I was here and here's what I did and it worked', and 'I was here and here's what I did and it didn't work"
- Dan Arkind, Co-Founder & CEO of JobScore, and Mentor at the Founder Institute
Listen to an mp3 of the recording here.
