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EMGT 373 Technology Entrepreneurship: Weekly Guidebook Summary Week 2 - Team Formation and Development
EMGT 373 Technology Entrepreneurship: Weekly Guidebook Summary Week 2 - Team Formation and Development
Have Good Contacts Most people feedback by telling theirs friends they were taking Entrepreneurship class was positive. It was odd to hear that a classmate had a negative feedback of someone, that all his ideas were bad. I expected that people would feel tempted to discuss all their marvelous ideas hidden for year of how to make people live forever or to make infinite money. I enjoyed a lot talking to friends about the class, most of them were very interested in knowing what we were supposed to learn out here, specially for being in the Silicon alley, my !ra"ilian friends got so excited and wanted me to keep reporting about the class, maybe some ideas may come up from those discussions, which is exactly the intention of spreading the news around. #gain, good contacts, better chances of coming up with the new best idea in the world. Every big solution was created from small ideas. Entrepreneurial Events $ith the thoughts in mind that people can be both an enemy and a partner about our so special ideas I started trying to make my mind working towards sharing them. I attended a very nice %obotics event where I could see a few companies and a lot of other groups of hobbyists that created their own robots. &ust like the companies that were showing their products, these groups were showing their ideas of a possible future product, some of them were even in a startup process to develop a robotic solution. I had a chance to talk to a 'h.(. student at Stanford who showed me his prototype live and we talked about how the idea was born. It was nice to see that even a person like him started small like all of us) *e took his knowledge from since his undergraduate time, software, hardware, everything and put up into a uni+ue idea, that now may be in the market for selling anytime. ,hat was great for reali"ing that every step we make now is preparing us for a bigger achievement in the future. Self Exposure Events are all made focusing a single objective, but nothing keeps you from making your own objective achievable in that event. Step up in that important speech given by a ' and expose yourself. Introduce yourself, ask +uestions, make yourself seen. 'eople that share the same idea you have but don-t have the power or will to debate that in open public may come to you and share their ideas. ,hat is a great chance of learning and even making future partnerships. !eyond that, what if that ' likes your thoughts and want to talk more to you about that. !usiness are made everywhere and every time. !y changing business cards you increase your chances of contacting that guy speciali"ed in something you may need in the future. !ut be prepared, before an event take a few minutes and read about the person or organi"ation holding the event, that may put you a step ahead in an interesting talk, other than being just someone %afael 'ereira .
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