Bill Draper: The Early Days of Silicon Valley

Bill Draper is one of the West Coast's first venture capitalists. He founded venture capital funds Draper Richards, Draper International, and Sutter Hill Ventures. In this talk, he discusses the early days of Sand Hill Road and Silicon Valley.

MS&E 476: Entrepreneurship through the Lens of Venture Capital

We often discuss how technology is reinvented and disrupted, but there is also a good amount of change occurring within the venture capital industry. Within the past several decades there have been new entrants, from incubators to angels to different models of venture capital.

The course explores changes in the venture capital industry: from the rise of Sand Hill Road and investing in the dot-com bubble, to incubators and accelerators, equity crowd funding platform, and different models of venture capital today.