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Tune in: http://33voic.es/ing6y6v Andrew Yang is the Founder and CEO of Venture for America, and has worked in startups and early-stage growth companies as a founder or executive for more than twelve years. He was the CEO and President of Manhattan GMAT, a test prep company that was acquired by the Washington Post/Kaplan in 2009. He has also served as the co-founder of an Internet company and an executive at a health care software startup. Andrew was named a Champion of Change by the White House for his work with Venture for America and one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business” among other awards. He is the author of “Smart People Should Build Things,” published by Harper Business about the ideas behind VFA (excerpts here and at Amazon). He’s appeared on CNBC, Morning Joe, Fox News, TIME, Techcrunch, the Wall St. Journal, and many other media outlets. He is a graduate of Columbia Law and Brown University and lives in New York City with his wife, son and little white fluffy dog.
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Andrew Yang is the Founder and CEO of Venture for America, and has worked in startups and early-stage growth companies as a founder or executive for more than twelve years. He was the CEO and
President of Manhattan GMAT, a test prep company that was acquired by the Washington Post/Kaplan in 2009. He has also served as the co-founder of an Internet company and an executive at a health
care software startup. Andrew was named a Champion of Change by the White House for his work with Venture for America and one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business” among other awards. He is the author of “Smart People Should Build Things,” published by Harper Business about
the ideas behind VFA (excerpts here and at Amazon). He’s appeared on CNBC, Morning Joe, Fox News, TIME, Techcrunch, the Wall St. Journal, and many other media outlets. He is a graduate of Columbia Law
and Brown University and lives in New York City with his wife, son and little white fluffy dog.
Andrew Yang@andrewyangvfa
Founder and CEO of Venture for America
If you look around your workplace and don’t see someone whose life you’d like to emulate,
you’re probably in the wrong place.
Insight #1
Insight #2
Entrepreneurship is a journey from ignorance to competence. Your best source of
knowledge will forever be your experience.
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
- Lao Tsu
Insight #3
Remarkable careers are hardly built in a straightforward, linear fashion - rather, its a zig-zag approach of recognizing and
capitalizing on opportunities as they arise.
Insight #4
If you aspire to join a high growth organization, be prepared to work yourself out of a job
if you expect to get ahead.
Insight #5
Above all, these four skills will give you an edge:
Problem solvingRisk taking
Communication, andFinancial literacy
Insight #6
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” - Dr. Seuss on resilience
Insight #7
Although the role of an early stage founder is ever evolving, it’s likely to
prioritize recruiting co-founders with a complementary skill set, searching for a repeatable and scalable business model
— and fundraising.
Insight #8
“If you treat the future as something definite, it makes sense to understand it in advance
and to work to shape it. But if you expect an indefinite future ruled by randomness, you’ll
give up on trying to master it.”
- Peter Thiel on the future
Insight #9
A successful individual finds value in unexpected places — for her highest priority
is to create something new, better and different.
Insight #10
To muster the confidence to work toward your goals, Rosabeth Moss Kanter recommends you avoid these eight traps:
Self-defeating assumptions Goals that are too big or too distant
Declaring victory too soonDo-it-yourself-ing
Blaming someone elseDefensiveness
Neglecting to anticipate setbacksOver-confidence
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/overcome-the-eight-barriers-to-confidence/
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