think like an entrepreneur (for gotowebinar)

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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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PEOPLEOPPORTUNITYEXECUTION

Peoplehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/furnari/

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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