Lecture entrepreneurship for students of the Hotel Management School in Maastricht by the author, DJ, and Quintessentially director Sebastiaan Hooft. Sebastiaan Hooft talks about the five facets of entrepreneurship skills and shows which areas you as a hospitality professional should be focusing.

1. Becoming
A Happy, Healthy and
Successful Entrepreneur
Sebastiaan Hooft

2. 500
15 countries, 3 continents, 3 universities

3. IDEA
TEAM
PLANNING
RESOURCES
HEALTH

4. Entrepreneurship is about skills

5. IDEA

6. HEROES
EXPERIENCED
STARTERS
DREAMERS

7. Your idea
A big facet of sustainable
success is doing what enjoy
doing and are good at
Your idea should feel like an
important mission
Most people will think your idea is
bad and that you sound crazy
Focus on a small, specific market
You need a market that is going to
be big in ten years

9. Develops
Over ten years
Think global
Change the world
Why now?
Do you like it yourself?
Clearly articulated vision

10. Find an audience
Make what people want

13. TEAM

15. Friends, family and fools

16. Your team
Formalized, empowered and
responsibilities
Get the best people
Find experts in a domain
Find tough and calm people
Experience matters a lot
Try not to hire

17. Try not to hire
You’ll lose a lot of money
Be proud on a small team
Hire if you have a desperate need
Mediocre people kill your career
Find new hires through hires

18. How to find
good people?
Three questions
Are they smart?
Do they get things done?
Do you like them?

19. Date
Get to know them

20. Mentors
You need them when you’re on a roll

22. What is your
job?
Figure out what to do and how
to get it done
Set the vision
Make money
Take people on your journey
Hire and manage
Make sure the team executes

24. Start a
movement
How do you do that?
Quick
Do whatever it takes
Show up
Don’t give up
Be courageous

25. PLANNING

26. The planning
process
Online tools. Share.
Business Model
Strategy
Timeline

27. Business Model Canvas

28. Digital Maturity Level

29. Roadmap

30. Checklists

31. Always keep momentum

32. RESOURCES

33. What do you
have?
What don’t you have?
Money
People
Time

34. Unique
What resources are unique to
your situation?
Education
Location
Knowledge
Patents
Connections

35. HEALTH

36. How do you
measure?
Find help from experts
Financial health
Emotional health
Physical health

38. 0,0001%
Makes it to the DJ Mag Top 100

39. $19.09
Hourly mean wage independent artists (US, 2014)

41. Later stage
advice
But a waste of time until you
have something going on
Management
HR
Productivity
Legal, finance, accounting and tax
Your role in the team
Marketing and PR
Dealmaking

42. Books
Two must reads + a bonus tip

43. Your WA
Mentor Team
Sebastiaan Hooft
+31 6 11 61 80 22
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Thank the mentors