Because that is exactly what is required....
Not opinion, nor learned behaviour nor methods. Rather, the ability to look inside yourself, and impart the best of you; your wisdom, compassion, experience.
Requirements are maturity, experience (both life & business), a track record of success & failure, a lifelong willingness to learn & to share, and a journey that 'marks the trail' for those that follow.
Renumeration will be absolutely defineable, via multiple streams (in addition to the usual options), such as self-actualisation, a requirement to 'pay it forward', recognition, accolades and personal & professional satisfaction.
Do you meet these criteria?
Do I?
The stories, thoughts & learning of an Australian startup entrepreneur on a journey to success, through perseverance, to cross the 'valley of death' despite pain & personal tragedy, in order to climb the mountain.
Showing posts with label experience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label experience. Show all posts
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Thursday, 16 May 2013
What did you learn from your last startup?
If you want to work out what you have learned from each of your startups, you should first review in summary what you did & didn't do, so that you can extract the lessons from each of them. By the way, if you don't yet have a journal, get one.
Let's assume that for every project of yours that didn't work, it is automatically assumed that you didn't know enough. The same is equally true of all my projects. But that in itself isn't enough.
You can start to determine what you experienced, and therefore what you learned, by outlining the external factors & events around each of your startups, such as
We'll come back to the learning in part 2.
Let's assume that for every project of yours that didn't work, it is automatically assumed that you didn't know enough. The same is equally true of all my projects. But that in itself isn't enough.
You can start to determine what you experienced, and therefore what you learned, by outlining the external factors & events around each of your startups, such as
- What stage did it get to?
- Who was involved and in what roles?
- What were their skills? their motivations?
- Who did you engage to support the project?
- What research did you undertake?
- Did you have a plan? If so, did it guide you or confine you?
- How flexible were you in deviating from the plan?
- Why it didn't work,
- What you still have to learn,
- What you did learn, and
- What can you do differently next time.
We'll come back to the learning in part 2.
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