3. Understanding the Entrepreneurial Mindset Opportunity Found

4. Two Questions

5. How do entrepreneurs recognize opportunities?

6. How do entrepreneurs recognize opportunities? How do they pull it off?

7. Wisdom and insight straight from the source

8. Module 1: Principles

9. What is entrepreneurship?

10. Entrepreneurship is not management

11. What is an entrepreneur?

13. What does it take to become an entrepreneur?

14. Create the future

15. Risk vs Reward

16. "Imagination is more important than knowledge” -A. Einstein

17. Module 2: Paradigm

18. Organizational Paradigm: Origins and Outcomes

19. Organizational Mindset

20. Thank God It’s Friday

21. Shift Happens

22. The Entrepreneurial Paradigm: Origins and Outcomes

23. The Entrepreneurial Mindset

25. Thank God It’s Monday

26. Old Paradigms Die Hard

27. Assumption of Complete Knowledge

28. Module 3: Opportunity Found: An Entrepreneurs Perspective

29. Fundamentals of Value Creation

30. A Solution in Search of a Problem

31. An inside-out perspective

32. "The market doesn't give a damn about you." -David Morgenthaler

33. Hope is not a strategy

34. It’s not about us…

35. EQ vs IQ

36. “ Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” - Steven Covey

37. Know thy customer

39. Know thy self

40. The maze

41. Problems are opportunities

42. Opportunity assessment

43. $ time 1 2 3 revenue expense Can we make a product? Can we get a few people to buy? Can we get lots of people to buy? Seed/pre-seed Founders ? Capital Mgmt Early stage/ Angels Growth/VC Founders/Prof Mgmt Prof. Mgmt

44. Basic financial aptitude

45. Scalability and growth potential

46. Objectivity

47. Enthusiastic and somewhat inexperienced

48. Module 4: Approach

50. 2. Win X the big brother alliance

52. 3. Social intelligence networking

54. 4. Creativity Finding Solutions for Everyday Problems

55. 5. Intuition The power of thinking without thinking

56. 6. Willingness to embrace change Curiosity is required

57. 7. Tolerance for uncertainty Irreducible uncertainty

59. 8. Vision Tapping the power of human potential

62. 9. Agility Opportunistic adaptation

64. 10. Focus and execution Facing your fears

65. 11. Persistence and determination A positive approach