Finding your Entrepreneurial Passion: An Exercise

A talk given on March 3rd, 2012 to Mitch Kapor's Summer Math & Science Honors Academy that outlines an exercise for the students to help find out what they're really passionate about.

Transcript

1. SMASHCAST / 3.3.12 Matthew Moore, Entrepreneur
2. SOME CONTEXT Middle School Learned to Program High School Co-Founded a Company Undergrad Started & Led a Club First Job Led a Company Raised first Outside Capital Hired & Managed First Employee First Internship
3. -STEVE JOBS
4. -MATT Well, I'm here to tell you that you're probably gonna find out, as you go out there...
5. What’s your dent?
6. You don’t have to know yet. (but know that you want to make one!)
7. JUST DO IT try ^
8. -LIL JON What?
9. • Passions? • Related Businesses? • A Valuable Product? • Related Heroes? AN EXERCISE
10. What do y! love?
11. What are the related businesses?
12. What does a valuable product look like?
13. How
14. How  many  people  are  there  in   the  world  that  would  use  it? (and  how  often?)
15. • The dots of your life will be connected. – Paraphrasing Steve Jobs • You are a business. –Reid Hoffman, Founder of LinkedIn • Stay hungry, stay foolish. –World Almanac & Steve Jobs • Feel free to email me at matt@crowdmob.com –Matthew Moore, Entrepreneur THANK YOU!