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Enterprise Tuesday

December 1, 2009 10:28 pm tonkas Strategy

As part of my effort to keep on learning and supplement my reading on the personal MBA, and figure out how I can be more entrepreneurial I have been going to Enterprise Tuesdays, which is a series of lectures and talks every Tuesday evening at the University of Cambridge.
It’s the end of the first term now and I’ve been looking back over notes I’ve made and there seems, to me, to be some similarities in what everyone has said.

• An idea is worthless until you do something about it.
• Stress test your idea with a few people (who will tell you the truth!) is it really a good idea? Is the timing right, is the idea ready, is the market place ready?
• Put everything in to it, you must be passionate about it.
• Be passionate about it, if you’re not then no one else will be.

Obviously there was a lot more to the lectures than that, but to me these seem to be the common themes across the lectures so far.

I’m still having difficulty with the post lecture networking, the place is full of MBAs, CEOs and all sorts of other acronyms and I feel like a fraud for being there, which I think fits in with what Josh calls Imposter Syndrome