Entrepreneurs everywhere
Every once in a while at this business school, you really get a feel for what they mean when they say that the MBA program has an entrepreneural focus. Take today for example:
Hiring and being hired in a startup
This lunchtime, I went to a talk by Rod Cook, a local HR consultant who works for a number of small startup companies as their HR department. He spoke with us about the importance of getting a good team together when you start a new company. He also reinforced what we have been hearing which is, the most frequent way that one gets hired by a startup is through networking.
So you're a startup, what now?
In my Entrepreneurship and Technology Ventures class this afternoon, we had a guest speaker in, Hakker Overli (right) of Active Health Partners, came in to give us a view into starting up and growing a successful business in the UK.
What happens when you make it big?
As if that wasn't enough, in the evening I attended a lecture by Thor Bjorgolfsson, the Icelandic billionare who is not yet 40. What an amazing man. The key to his success is to "spot the trends", "take a risk" and "surround yourself with hard headed people, like yourself".
I asked him "what was your biggest failure and what did you learn from it" and he was stumped. I'm not sure that failure is even in his dictonary :) He said that he has little failures every day but he tries to learn from everything that happens and take it to the next endeavour. You know what, I believed him. I think that when something goes wrong, like the Summer of 98 in Russia and the Equity that he had sorted from the bank fell through when the Russian Government had their crisis, he didn't see a failure, just a small setback and an opportunity.
I'd like to work for him.
It could be you next
I look around at my classmates, some of whom have already started companies, others who will go on to do so, and still others who will join those companies and make them big. This year out is a break, a reprise from the work which distracts and an opportunity to focus and think about the rest of our life. Who will be the next Thor Bjorngolfsson? It could be any one of us.
Hiring and being hired in a startup
This lunchtime, I went to a talk by Rod Cook, a local HR consultant who works for a number of small startup companies as their HR department. He spoke with us about the importance of getting a good team together when you start a new company. He also reinforced what we have been hearing which is, the most frequent way that one gets hired by a startup is through networking.
So you're a startup, what now?
In my Entrepreneurship and Technology Ventures class this afternoon, we had a guest speaker in, Hakker Overli (right) of Active Health Partners, came in to give us a view into starting up and growing a successful business in the UK.What happens when you make it big?
As if that wasn't enough, in the evening I attended a lecture by Thor Bjorgolfsson, the Icelandic billionare who is not yet 40. What an amazing man. The key to his success is to "spot the trends", "take a risk" and "surround yourself with hard headed people, like yourself".
I asked him "what was your biggest failure and what did you learn from it" and he was stumped. I'm not sure that failure is even in his dictonary :) He said that he has little failures every day but he tries to learn from everything that happens and take it to the next endeavour. You know what, I believed him. I think that when something goes wrong, like the Summer of 98 in Russia and the Equity that he had sorted from the bank fell through when the Russian Government had their crisis, he didn't see a failure, just a small setback and an opportunity.
I'd like to work for him.
It could be you next
I look around at my classmates, some of whom have already started companies, others who will go on to do so, and still others who will join those companies and make them big. This year out is a break, a reprise from the work which distracts and an opportunity to focus and think about the rest of our life. Who will be the next Thor Bjorngolfsson? It could be any one of us.
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