In the world capital of engineering, where per-capita income can seem inversely related to social skills, Campbell was the man who taught founders to look up from their computer screens.
Training founders to be angels is a competitive space, with First Round offering an "Angel Track" program that teaches founders and emerging investors the ropes of investing.
Accepted startups will participate in a 10-week curriculum designed to teach founders things like how to get press, user acquisition strategies, and other skills that all early-stage companies need to succeed.
The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using The Startup Owner's Manual.
Set to music by Edward Bilous, this group piece was created last year by Alison Chase, who taught the founders' first class and encouraged them to improvise and choreograph from the start.
On the flip side, for those aspiring venture capitalists out there, Kraus said that the key is to avoid fostering a dependence among your entrepreneurs — that venture capitalists have to teach their founders to be independent and self-sufficient.
@curtrice He is the author of The Leadership Skills Handbook (Kogan Page), co-founder and trustee of Teach First, and chairman and founder of Teaching Leaders and a founder and trustee of Future Leaders.
Richard Charnley Leamington Spa When considering if Christianity is a civilising force we can only look at the teaching of its founder; teaching such as to turn the other cheek when hurt, love your neighbour as yourself, be merciful, forgive and help the poor.
Five long years in Silicon Valley have apparently taught the Google founders a great deal about the people who are about to make them billionaires.
