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Get Together -- TED Talks! (3/16/11)

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The Entrepreneurs Club mantra is to live your passion. What does that mean? Well, to start, we have to talk about entrepreneurship. To many, entrepreneurship is a big, hairy, convoluted concept. But it’s not and it’s found everywhere. It’s simple really: it’s about figuring out what you love doing and making it happen. If you’d like learn more and you want to meet others pursuing their dreams.This Get Together was about bringing the group closer together by focusing on:- Opening their minds- Seeing the World from , ^, v (different angles)- Digging Deeper- Starting thingsSide note: Mike Rowe talks about biting off a lambs testicles (which got some people a bit uncomfortable), we got everyone to dance, and Ken Robinson is AMAZING!
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Live Your Passion!

Northeastern.edu/entrepreneurs

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TED TalksLive Your Passion!

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School of Technological Entrepreneurship

Sponsored by:

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Sponsored by:

College of Business Administration

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What is the E-Club?

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The

Future?

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Today is all about:

• Opening your mind• Seeing the World from <,>, ^, v• Digging Deeper• Starting things

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The goods

• Intro– Program updates

• ChitChat• TED– Mike Rowe– Singing– Ken Robinson– Start a movement

• Survey

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Updates

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Circle up!

• Form two concentric circles. Discuss away.

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Mike Rowe

WARNING: a bit graphic

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Mike Rowe

• Disturbing? Maybe

• BIG QUESTION: what do we really know? – Whose right?

• Life is full of contradictions and preconceptions

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Mike Rowe

• Why are we OK with taking things at face value?• Doing things “the way have been?”

• Consider: what are some of your own anagnorises and peripeteias?

• Entrepreneurship: changing the way we look at the World

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“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy.”

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Conclusion

• It’s easy to make assumptions about how things should be. Why?

• The movement of many starts with the power of one. Why?

• Be bold, prepared to be wrong and perpetually learn. Why?

• Live your Passion!

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Next Week

• Tomorrow: round table chat with Seed Stage Investor and young entrepreneur

• Tuesday (3/22): How to’s of Networking• Get Together (3/23): Dinner with the Chinese

Entrepreneurs Group


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