Four Constructs

What

Stories of founders; generalizations; what goes wrong; philosophy; life advice. Most of you are just getting started. This is an amazing adventure. Understand what you are getting into and how to make the most of it.

I realize this module contains a lot of material. You are the founder of your career, startup, and whatever else you're investing in to make yourself better. All of these materials are worthy of full consideration.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this module you should be able to:

• List at least three good reasons for becoming an entrepreneur and at least three bad reasons to become an entrepreneur (Dustin Moskovitz below)

• Appreciate the centrality of leadership (and followership where appropriate) in entrepreneurship and the need to be able to craft and communicate a compelling vision, mission statement, and value proposition.

• Embrace the "startup" nature of being in your twenties and being a "startup of you" in terms of building valuable skills and networks and learning to envision and produce extraordinary value for yourself and others.

• Identify the attributes of a suitable complementary co-founder or co-founder(s) to round out your startup management team needs.

• Describe the steps so-called "non-technical" founders can take to build substantial value into their new ventures before taking on a "technical" co-founder (see Dan Sullivan below)

Instructions

• Watch the assigned videos and presentations;

• Read the assigned readings;

• Complete the practice quiz or other assigned practice activity

• Complete the assessment;

• Complete the "Mark as Complete" checklist.

Presentation

Readings

NO ASSIGNED READINGS FOR THIS MODULE

Practice

Assessments

Mark as Complete