On September 23, 2010 at 9:56pm

thestartupstudent:

Accelerated Learning: How to Find and Take Advantage of Smart People

In June I gave a talk at Ignite Boulder 11 on accelerated learning. I’d love your feedback on it. I’m really proud of the talk. I’d never spoken in front of so many people before (around 1,450). 

I approached Ignite as a challenge. In Boulder, we have the largest Ignite talks anywhere in the world so this was a bit intimidating. 

The short version of the video is this: learn from people who are better than you. It doesn’t really matter what the subject. Business, ping pong, chess…it all works.

Find someone smart who blows you away and learn all you can from them.

Spot on Zack! There’s some great advice here. Have you narrowed your network of smart people to a board and/or found yourself a business mentor?

On April 25, 2010 at 9:06pm

hiten:

The video of my presentation about Pivots at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23rd, 2010.

Really useful advice from Hiten Shah