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Starting a Business Mårten G Mickos Otaniemi 15 Dec 2009 Aalto Entrepreneurship Society
Here’s to a lot of failure!
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"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." — Winston Churchill
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Keep going 1 2 Ambition Outcome 3 4 5 6 7 8
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." — Michelangelo
Starting Your itch / your passion A real market demand with a window of opportunity + Fail fast Scale fast => Don’t worry – be crappy
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Growing a business FOCUS. FOCUS. FOCUS. Pick the business that you want to be in. Period. Everything else is out of mind. Done. Finished. Gone. Just get on with it!
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Thank you! Please start great businesses. [email_address]

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Aaltoes Talk with Mårten Mickos

  • 1. Starting a Business Mårten G Mickos Otaniemi 15 Dec 2009 Aalto Entrepreneurship Society
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  • 4. "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." — Winston Churchill
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  • 6. Keep going 1 2 Ambition Outcome 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • 7. "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." — Michelangelo
  • 8. Starting Your itch / your passion A real market demand with a window of opportunity + Fail fast Scale fast => Don’t worry – be crappy
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  • 11. Growing a business FOCUS. FOCUS. FOCUS. Pick the business that you want to be in. Period. Everything else is out of mind. Done. Finished. Gone. Just get on with it!
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  • 18. Thank you! Please start great businesses. [email_address]