think like an entrepreneur (for gotowebinar)
Post on 17-Oct-2014
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Lessons for big orgs on how to be more like a startup, drawn from my experience and that of others. Grateful and indebted to Marc Andreesen, Scott Berkun, and Kathy Sierra for some of the ideas shared within.TRANSCRIPT
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Entrepreneur
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What " a #a$up?A startup is an entrepreneurial-driven organization formed tosearch for a repeatable andscalable business model.
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What " a #a$up?A certain amount of innovation andrisk is central to the development ofmost start-ups.
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in %ree sentences:All my secrets
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FIND PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DOWHAT THEY'RE GOOD AT1GIVE THEM ROOM TO DOWHAT THEY RE GOOD AT2
LET THEM DO IT OVER AND OVERUNTIL THEY GET IT RIGHT3
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DRIVE
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I define drive as self-motivation.People who will walk right through brickwalls, on their own power, without having tobe asked, to achieve whatever goal is infront of them.People with drive push and push and pushand push and push until they succeed.
Marc Andreesen, Netscape
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We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on tothe end, we shall fight in France, we shallfight on the seas and oceans, we shall fightwith growing confidence and growingstrength in the air, we shall defend ourIsland, whatever the cost may be, we shallfight on the beaches, we shall fight on thelanding grounds, we shall fight in the fieldsand in the streets, we shall fight in thehills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
Motivation > experience
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Curiosity counts
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Lead passion with knowledge and experience
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Failure is, in a sense, the highwayto success, inasmuch as everydiscovery of what is false leads usto seek earnestly after what is true,and every fresh experience pointsout some form of error which weshall afterwards carefully avoid.
John Keats
Many of life s failures are peoplewho did not realize how close theywere to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
Many organizations punish failure
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Many organizations punish trying
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Create a culture of experimentation and candor
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Push decision-making down the ladder
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Humor, courage, and trust
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Execution
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ITERATION
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“If everything seems undercontrol, you re just not goingfast enough.”
Mario Andretti
Ideas are worthless without executionhttp://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/01/be_brave.html
Your first idea is never your best idea
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The devil doesn t need an advocate
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Recover quickly and move on
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