An interesting perspective on the life cycle of an entrepreneur. A new way of looking at classification of startup Ideas!

1. Entrepreneurship
The core belief of capitalism!
The Entrepreneurial Life-cycle
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2. The Child
Why I do what I do?
Is this the life I sought
Maybe……maybe not.
Anonymous
What governs my choices; passion or peers?
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3. The Child
• The child lives in all of us
• The child asks a lot of questions
• The questions are tough, disconcerting…
Do we nurture the child or kill it?
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Dell
Newton
Branson
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4. The Adolescent
What if I could do this…or that?
Ideas are like babies.
Fresh, naïve and fearless!
Anonymous
What if I could do what I want to do…all my life?
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5. The Adolescent
• The adolescent is an idea-machine
• The adolescent is a dreamer
• The adolescent is a visionary
So many ideas. Is the confusion good?
OOO
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Edison
Steve Jobs
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6. The Teenager
Let’s try it out!
Choose the life you want to live?
• Feel no pain
• Dance in the rain
Risk what risk? It is so much fun!
The Myths
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7. The Teenager
• The teenager is the innovator
• The teenager is the adventurer
• And nothing else matters…
OOO
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Branson
Welch
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8. Forever young!
This is my dream. That is my road!
Life is but a game, however, in this game the
rules are not revealed until well into the game;
and then, to only those courageous enough to
seek them. Ryan P. Allis
The road is tricky but I know the pebbles and potholes!
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9. Forever young!
• He knows what he can do
• He knows what he needs to learn
• He aims for the stars but knows the distance
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Mahatma Gandhi Harsha Bhogle
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10. entrepreneur: Who is he?
• An idea becomes an obsession
• You know the goal and have planned your way
• You know what you are leaving behind
The Play-ground
The Trade-off
The Risk
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11. the myths
• It is a short cut to getting rich
• I am my own master
• It is about running my own business
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12. the myths
• A great idea = A great business
• You should have a management degree
• Formal education is of no help!
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13. the million dollar idea!
Don’t be afraid of ideas!
The way to have a good idea is to have lots
and lots of them.
Having ideas is easy. Having a good one is difficult!
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14. ideas: the three cousins!
She’s rare
She weds the intellectual mind
You’re lucky if you get her!
The world will pay for your marriage
She’s quite common
She makes many a millionaire
She weds the opportunistic mind
You’ll have to convince people to pay for your marriage
She’s rare
She weds the rich and rebellious mind
Absolutely no one is going to pay for your marriage
The Break-though
The Eccentric
The Better
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15. is it a profession?
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, wasn't really
interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I
had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep
my magazine going.
Richard Branson
A perspective! A skill!
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16. is it a job?
Don’t waste your life working for money
Make your money work for you!
Robert Tiyosaki
Earning money does not make you rich.
How you spend it does!
Robert Tiyosaki
A way of life! A way to think!
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17. is it a choice?
If I would be born again, I would be an industrialist. I
would complain because it is very hard work with no
weekends. But I would still do it.
Sakip Sabanci
If today was the last day of my life would I do what I am
about to do today?
Steve Jobs
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18. I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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19. Thank you!
Saurabh Saxena
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