Posts Tagged ‘execution’

Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Daniel Ek

by Scott Edward Walker on May 23rd, 2012

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.”  Each week, we share a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics.  This week, we present Daniel Ek, the founder and CEO of Spotify and a brilliant, serial entrepreneur.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: September 12th – 18th

by Scott Edward Walker on September 19th, 2011

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues.  Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly) for the past week and a couple of blog-related tweets.  If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.  Cheers, Scott

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Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Jason Calacanis

by Scott Edward Walker on April 27th, 2011

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series entitled “Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.”  Each week, we post a short video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics to help entrepreneurs succeed.

This week, we present Jason Calacanis, a highly-successful entrepreneur, angel investor and founder of Silicon Alley ReporterWeblogsTechCrunch 50Mahalo, ThisWeekIn.com and Launch.  In this very interesting, recent presentation at the California Institute of Technology, Jason shares some extraordinary words of wisdom for entrepreneurs, including:

  • Ideas mean little – execution is everything;
  • Iteration is much more important than inspiration or ideas;
  • Focus is overrated – and pivoting is underrated;
  • Hard work is the most critical part of being an entrepreneur, coupled with resiliency;
  • Execution is critical to raising money;
  • The selection of a domain name is an important “tell”; and
  • When you pivot proactively, that’s when you really become a great entrepreneur.

I hope you enjoy it.  Many thanks, Scott

Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: William Sahlman

by Scott Edward Walker on January 31st, 2011

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.”  Each week, we post a short video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics to help entrepreneurs succeed.

This week, we present William Sahlman, a professor at Harvard Business School and a very intelligent, engaging guy. In this interesting, three-minute clip from a few years ago (courtesy of Stanford University’s Entrepreneurship Corner), Bill discusses, among other things, (i) the importance of the “relentless pursuit of opportunity” and (ii) how  “ideas are a dime a dozen and execution is all that matters.”  I hope you enjoy it.  Many thanks, Scott