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An entrepreneurs journey the good, bad, and the awesome!
Steve Jennings
Halloween 2013
1961
1969: I was 9 years old when this happened
1969: this was happening
1969: and so was this
1969: and I saw this man play live (by accident)
1969: An obsession (according to my Mum)
1961
The internet did not exist
My journey as an entrepreneur
1991-99
2000-01
2001-02
2002-05
2010
2012
20092001
55% valuation growth
2006-09
2006
2007
2010-11
Steve Jennings entrepreneur journey
2013
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If there’s something you
need to do DO IT
Allow yourself to be a beginner, a
learner
Naturally we are scientists and
explorers
We’re equipped to prototype with whatever we have
Create a company that feels like play
Play is a human super power
Create conditions in which no one
is vulnerable
Create a company that can offer
people jobs that are meaningful
Not all jobs are created equal
Spend your life around people
you resonate with
You will pivot, be prepared to kill
your darling
Your founder team are
everything
Treat the people that use the
product you make as a community
They’re not users or customers, they are your
neighbors
Choose your investors wisely
Don’t just take the money
Invest in yourself
Believe in yourself
Seek connections between the
world’s needs and your strengths
Don’t talk about what you invented.
Tell people what you changed!
Bake your value system into your
business plan
Build the company that you wouldn’t
sell
1.I will get outside
the building
2.I will test my assumptions
3.I will measure what matters
4.I will be flexible
and pivot
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
@stevejennings1