What your Mother should have taught you about Entrepreneurship

I’m holding a talk today tonight at ACACES 2008 in lovely l’Aquila outside Rome. This posting is a placeholder for putting up information related to that talk and facilitating audience follow-ups.

The Amazon listmania for the suggested books is http://tinyurl.com/psm20080714B.

Below are selected slides from the presentation. These are also available as a public Google document.




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2 Responses to “What your Mother should have taught you about Entrepreneurship”

  1. Wei Says:
    July 14, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    Hi Peter, it’s a great talk tonight and I enjoyed it very much. While you’re telling all the computer engineers to start up companies, I was just wondering whether you would also be so kind enough to offer your perspectives on how to become a successful venture capitalist? thanks, -Wei

    [PSM] Thanks Wei. I haven’t been a successful VC myself (yet), but that shouldn’t stop me from having an opinion. I would like to believe that you should be an entrepreneur first, or at least work in a (successful) startup first, and that seems to be borne out by the evidence.

  2. Ross Dickson Says:
    July 15, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    Good to see you posting again, though this doesn’t really give us any clue as to what you are doing these days.

    [psm]Well, right now I am touristing in Rome. :-)

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