Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Four Mantras to Help You Move Past Fear
Practice recognizing the difference between fear and risk assessment.
Mike Peña
Stanford University
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Why Africa is Fertile Ground for Tech Entrepreneurs
Burst your own bubble. Be part of an emerging ecosystem.
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
What’s Your Tolerance For Risk?
Decide how much you’re willing to risk before taking the next step. The right role will bring out your full potential.
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Advice for Designing Your Business Model and Beating the Odds
Your business model is just as important as your product.
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
How Competition Ups Your Innovation Game
Take a broad view of who you’re up against. The more competitive the field, the more innovative you’ll end up being.
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Will Blockchain Disrupt Banks, Black Markets and Business as Usual?
Align the core strengths of emerging technologies with human values and apply them to the biggest challenges we face.
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Need Funding for Your Startup? Here’s What VCs Want to See
Tell a story about a growing wave of new market opportunities. Ground your pitch with data from customers who are actually using your minimum viable product.
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
How Startups Survive the High-Growth Stage
Prepare for change as your startup begins to mature. Your initial strategies must change as you scale.
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
How Startups Can Bake Diversity Into Their DNA
Create an environment where people want to bring 100 percent of themselves to their work. Early-stage startups are positioned to make inclusion a core value.
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Entrepreneurship Will Steer Self-Driving Cars Forward
Small and agile startups will outmaneuver tech giants by staying singularly focused on autonomous vehicles and niche products.
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Amazon: The GMO that Swallowed Whole Foods Markets
Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of the Whole Foods Market chain, which is now a done deal, ...
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Great Leaders Get Off the Couch
A few months after her failed bid for California governor in 2010, veteran Silicon Valley CEO Meg Whitman found herself on the couch, completely deflated. The ...
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Five Tips for Original Thinking
Why are the best ideas often the ones that don’t seem to make sense? Bestselling author Adam ...
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
The Need for Alliances in Uncertain Times
Businesses and entire industries are coping with major uncertainty due to President Donald Trump: from carmakers that fear his next tweet, to health insurers who ...
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Extreme Constraints and Curiosity Lead to True Innovation
Boundaries force you to find truly new solutions. For your next project, remove a given like a big budget or access to electricity to push your ideas further.
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
How Chinese Cities are Spurring Innovation
Cities around the world with emerging tech hubs are asking what’s in Silicon Valley’s so-called “secret sauce,” and how they can emulate the ...
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Ignoring Diversity Hurts Tech Products and Ventures
Everyone has blind spots. Diverse teams are better at seeing the full horizon of opportunities and consequences.
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Is ‘Lean’ the Secret to Startup Success?
Every sector can benefit from agile thinking. Get out the building and start talking to your customers.
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Entrepreneurship Can Be Learned
Business classes are not a prerequisite for entrepreneurship, and yes, some of the most storied startup founders were college dropouts. But many others say they ...
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
A More Modular and Manageable Google
For most of us, the reorganization of Google into a network of separate subsidiaries under the holding company Alphabet had zero effect on our lives. ...
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Why Failure to Launch is a Good Thing
If you’re going to lead the lab that launches moonshots like self-driving cars and balloon-powered Internet, you need to be incredibly ambitious and intelligent. ...
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Yoda was Wrong: Apply Design Thinking to Life’s Problems
Stanford Engineering Professor Bernard Roth, a founding faculty member of the university’s renowned design institute, told audience members attending one of his recent talks ...
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
It’s Everybody’s Business Now
In the startup world, there may be no such thing as becoming too successful. But for those few ventures that end up ...
Mike Peña,
Stanford University
Is the App-pocalypse Nigh?
It’s easy to see why much of America sees Silicon Valley as out of touch, even as we tap and swipe our devices with ...
