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Whatever you build, says Kawasaki, it's about passion, and less about money. Your goals should be about changing the world, or making the world a better place, he says. He also talks about his experience growing up thinking that money was the most important thing in life. He advises students to study abroad and to spend as much time learning as possible.
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Savi Technology has been called an overnight success 15 years in the making. Vic Verma, president and CEO of Savi Technology, talks about what he wanted to do as a Stanford student, the path that led him to Savi, and Savi's various clients and purpose.
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I build companies, it's what I love to do, says Neeleman. I want to build a legacy--something that will last for a long time, he says. We came up with a simple model of bringing humanity back to air travel, and making a difference, he adds. Becoming a better company, being the best in a really bad industry, is his mission.
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We're living in the YouTube world, say documentary film Tapestries of Hope creators Michealene C. Risley and Anand Chandrasekaran. While the statistics are stacked against their film making money, these seasoned cinematic entrepreneurs say still possible to find investors willing to support their core mission and bolster their passion.
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Winblad advises entrepreneurs to boil down their business plan and tell everyone in the company the top five assumptions for success. As time goes on, turn the assumptions into facts, she says. Understand the core assumptions you are making and keep reevaluating them, she adds.
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Verma talks about how the biggest mistake when identifying a market segment is not identifying the customer with the purchasing power. Your original market can be narrow, and will eventually grow, he says, but only if the correct customers are targeted. Find out who is making the final decisions about a purchase, he adds.
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According to Hoffman, working as if you will succeed, getting to failure points and measuring them as early as possible, making a timely entry and exit into the market, taking controlled risks and finally, solving the easiest problems and not the most complex ones are some of the most fundamental principles of entrepreneurship.
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Fraser believes that besides creating meaning for the world, an entrepreneurial venture should be able to create meaning for the people who comprise it as well. In this regard, people are able to passionately and zealously work toward making the company and product successful.
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Number 1 in Frank Levinson's Top 10 Things You Must Have to Start a Business. Levinson claims that the people you work with and your team are key in making your business successful. He explains the factors that should go into choosing your partner
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Kawasaki provides advice about foundation, priorities, financing, key employees, getting the word out, leveraging resources, scope, business development, raison d'etre, and the big picture. For example, a few years ago, cleverness was the priority, he says. Today, expertise in technology is important and entrepreneurs should be thinking of making the world a better place, he adds.
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Find something in the world you're capable of fixing, and use all the skills at your disposal to make it work. Acting for the common good should be as commonplace and as devotional as going into business, says Google.org Executive Director Larry Brilliant. Making the world a better place should take the same focus as devising the next great widget.
