Introduction to Entrepreneurism

This course is designed to deliver the challenges, tools, and frameworks to prepare me for a meaningful life as a principled entrepreneur. The easiest way to think of this course is as a compressed preview of your life ahead, an accelerated version of the trials and lessons you are likely to face on your own life journey as an entrepreneur. I am anxious to know these things. But one thing I've realized is that will not be easy, it will require sacrifice and consecration.

Some notes I took:

·         I learned today that  sacrifice pertains only to mortality.  In the eternal sense, there is really no such thing as sacrifice  (Elder Bruce R. McConkie).

·         “Understand that there is no perfect “next step.” No matter what you choose to do next, there will be surprises and missteps. You will have to advance through struggles, through trials and errors. That’s just the way life works. But you know this.And you know that just as there is no perfect next step, there is no perfect “next job.” Nevertheless, you have two choices: (1) to be thoughtful about asking questions and setting priorities, or (2) to flail about without making difficult decisions and setting priorities, hoping the perfect job will come to you, until you run out of time, energy, and money and take the next job that just comes along, a job that is unlikely to advance your life in the direction you want.Life is difficult. And life is full of challenges. But life can also be full of joy and meaning if you ask the right questions, make thoughtful commitments, and pick up just a little bit of luck—or gratitude—along the way.. Work hard to begin to discern your special calling as an entrepreneur, have the courage to etch a few more good habits into your character and to take the next steps on your adventure, and you’ll be well on the way to your own Hero’s Journey of Entrepreneurship.”

·         Kawasaki was saing that companies like Nordstrom, Audi, and Nike make the world a better place. His advice: “don't start a business because you think that's what's hot. You should study and do what you love”, he says. He can't promise you that the money will come, he does promise that if you start a company simply for the money, you will probably end up miserable..” How can we do of our company a better place in the world  and at the same time be ecologically sustainable?

·         Gordon B Hinkley: "... We will be part of a peculiar people. How? Be faithful, be ambitious, be true, go foward,, do not stop now, continue, continue. Educate your minds and your spirit. And never doubt the fact that you are children of God with a divine destiny.The work of this world is done by ordinary people who do things in an extraordinary way, be decent, and the God of heaven will smile to you "

       We are all born entrepreneurs.

       Great leaders have many great friends and principles of Success:

→   Bridge to success

→   Formula For Success

→   The Richest  Man in Babylon, G. Clason

→   The Ten Ancient Scrolls For Success

→   Man´s Searching For Meaning, V. Frankl

→   The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Productivity piramide

→   Good to Great, J. Collins

→   The Ministry of Business,

→   Your life plan

·         Reid Hoffman talking about career-building tools said: “You are always investing in yourself. You are not a finished asset, You can always learn better, you can always do better. We have to understand how important the network around us is. Linkedin is an essential tool. How do I invest myself? Witch tools do I use? What is happening in the industry? Do I use spreadsheets? "