One of “the best commencement speeches ever”

— National Public Radio

 

Inspire new thinking with these videos.

Victor Hwang, CEO of T2 Venture Creation, gave his commencement speech, "Three Love Letters" at the Austin Community College Fall 2014 Graduation Ceremonies ...
 

Remake the frontier in little ways.

National Public Radio named this one of “the best commencement speeches ever.” Seven guidelines to live by: 

Be uncomfortable.
Open doors.
Empathize with strangers. 
Try new things out. 
Seek serendipity. 
Take chances with new friends. 
Pay it forward to people you don’t know. 

Recognize the heroism happening every day.

Join Victor on a road trip through America’s Heartland to meet entrepreneurs and innovators. It’s the first in a series of six videos. Learn about the hidden heroism happening in communities everywhere.

 
When Victor Hwang, vice president of Entrepreneurship, came to the Kauffman Foundation earlier this year, it became very clear to him that there was a renewa...
Kauffman Sketchbook 31 Victor Hwang, vice president of Entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation, discusses the barriers that entrepreneurs face when start...
 

Break barriers for those who strive.

Barriers are often the invisible stuff. The little things add up. Entrepreneurs don’t die from one blow of a hammer. They usually die deaths of a million cuts.

Discover the modern way to create wealth.

There’s a new way to spin gold. It comes from people working in certain ways together. Innovation thrives in ecosystems where people collaborate, ideas flow, and value grows. (TEDx University of Nevada)

 
Victor W. Hwang is CEO, Co-founder, and Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital, a Silicon Valley firm that builds startups and designs the ecosystems that f...
Here's a riddle. What a proven way to create jobs, reduce inequality, and fight poverty, but that almost no one talks about? The answer may surprise you. Vic...
 

Remember: all of us matter.

Each month only 3 people out of 1,000 start a business. But what’s the role of the other 997 people? The latest science shows that the success of the 3 depend a lot on what the 997 do. So when it comes to driving entrepreneurship and innovation, all of us matter. (TEDx Augusta)

 

“Ecosystems are environments – like natural rainforests – that are dynamic and interconnected, where serendipitous value emerges from diverse interactions between all of us, where our whole is greater than the sum of our parts.”