These are the slides I usinga talk to a group of undergraduates from the worldwide organisation SIFE. They arebased at Imperial College London. The talk is on "Trust" and "What needs to be done?" Illustrated with stories from the various start ups I have been involved with

2. Scary! Especially on your own Scary! Especially on your own

3. Children’s trust Children’s Trust

4. Some people we trust!

5. Politicians?

6. People are everywhere Organisation People Relationships Trust Promises – Vulnerability – Listening Understanding – Sacrifice - Image

8. Transparency

9. Trackability

10. Tribes & Relationship

11. Do you trust me?My start up stories Imperial Training Day 25thNovember 2009

12. Broadplace begins

13. Broadplaceevolves

14. 18 months in stage 3

15. Sale of broadplace

22. What needs to be done? What needs to be done? What solutions are there? What part can I play in the puzzle? How can we improve next time?

25. Choose people, stories spread

26. Future?

27. Crack Team

28. Servant leadership Fair deal for all involved Relationship & communityCreates freedom & hope

29. M-commerce

31. Building your startup team Alex Hobbs will talk about “self discovery” Servant Leader Tenacious sales person Genuine conversationalist Technical person Aesthetics specialist Administrator

33. Life is too short to do something you don’t believe in. Figure out what needs to be done. Figure out how to trust and be trusted Use what is in your hands Commit to people relentlessly Work with passion

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