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The Entire Video of John Doerr Giving 10 Tips for Start-ups to Avoid the Econalypse

Here’s a video of star VC John Doerr reciting his 10 tips for start-ups to follow in the economic downturn.

Doerr gave out the advice at VentureBeat’s “How to manage your start-up in the downturn” roundtable event, which took place at the Stanford Park Hotel in Palo Alto yesterday morning.

The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers VC got a lot of attention for his list, which he culled from a survey of 18 of the companies his firm has invested in.

Doerr didn’t need a massive, noisy PowerPoint like Sequoia Capital to make his quick and clear points, which he delivered in four minutes flat.

Doerr was on an investors panel with Ram Shriram, one of Google’s first investors, Ron Conway, Kittu Kolluri of New Enterprise Associates and Matt Cohler of Benchmark Capital.

I moderated the second panel of entrepreneurs, including: Toni Schneider, chief executive of Automattic, the company that makes the WordPress blogging software; Max Levchin of Slide, Jason Calacanis of Mahalo; and Nirav Tolia of Web 1.0′s Epinions. Video of interviews with them and also Shriram to come later today!

But here’s Doerr reciting his 10 tips:


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  • http://www.knowprashant.blogspot.com Prashant Singh

    #11 Internet errr….. Ethanol is under hyped

  • http://kara.allthingsd.com Kara Swisher

    P:

    :)

  • http://blog.macb.net Mac Beach

    VW has video of item 11. Pretty sad.

    The bubbles were the disease. We are now dealing with the symptoms. If we can stay away from the kooky home remedies everything will be fine.

    His first 10 points sound like they should have been SOP all along. Lesson learned for a new generation.

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    Great blog, this could be the best blog I ever visited this month. Never stop to write something useful dude!

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