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  1. A familiar question among potential founders, says Levinson, is how much business and operational experience do I need to have before starting this business? He talks about the best experience a founder can have - the kind learned only by jumping in with both feet and learning as you go.

  2. Professor Summers, former U. S. Treasury Secretary and former President of Harvard University, in this the first of two lectures in honor of former Yale Professor and Council of Economic Advisors chairman Arthur Okun, offers thoughts on the role of monetary policy in economic fluctuations, past and present. In the "Okun period," ending about when Okun died in 1980, the monetary authorities were very much involved in actually creating econo...more

  3. Learning II

  4. In the second of his two lectures in honor of Arthur Okun, Professor Summers points out that real interest rates have been very low in the current subprime crisis. This indicates that the shock to the economy was more a financial breakdown shock than a disinflation shock. But financial breakdown shocks are not necessarily very harmful to the economy, so long as financial intermediation capital is not destroyed. In a financial crisis like t...more

  5. Musk discusses the role that business school can play for an entrepreneur as well as the possibility of learning outside of school. According to him the, the important principle is to be dedicated to learning what you need to know - whether that be in school or empirically.

  6. Success is not how smart you are; it's how you can get people to do what you want. Learning to delegate and to build a team was one of the hardest lessons for Jeff Housenbold, the CEO of Shutterfly, to master early in his career. With the insight of hindsight, he now sees effective team leading as a critical step in learning the right balance between career and self, and keeping the ego and ambition in check.

  7. Multiplication 3: Learning to Multiply 10, 11, and 12.

  8. Correcting a mistake and learning a bit about ion size.

  9. Penchina shares some of his failures and discusses lessons learned from them.

  10. Verma stresses the importance of listening to customers and learning what they need and want, rather than building a product based on assumptions.

  11. Keller-Bottom gives entrepreneurs some tips and asks them to learn from history and understand the market to help shape their businesses.

  12. Verma believes that learning from mistakes is something that every entrepreneur must do, and become comfortable doing. Rather than trying to avoid ever making a mistake, learn from them and move on, he says.