solved First, watch the John Doerr lecture, “Ideas are easy, execution
First, watch the John Doerr lecture, “Ideas are easy, execution is everything.”Â
Then, consider the following:
“Is it better to start a business now or wait until you gain experience working for someone else?”
When preparing your response, support your view with facts from John Doerr’s lecture. The first person to respond will pick a side to support. The next person to respond will constructively disagree with the first person to post. Each person thereafter will disagree with the previous person who posted. Try not to repeat ideas already stated. Therefore, you may want to access resources outside of the class materials to support your position.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (Mar 4, 2015). John Doerr: Ideas are easy, execution is everything. Â
Although it could be beneficial, working for someone else and waiting to gain enough experience will not necessarily prepare you for the challenges you might face when starting your own business. It will definitely give you some sense of what a business should look like but that knowledge can be gained in other fields. When starting a new company, you have the opportunity to learn the most valuable business lessons out there. In my opinion, surrounding yourself with the right mentors who have different sets of skills and experience is a great way to learn to start a business. You might not think so, but there are many high-profile entrepreneurs that are willing to share their knowledge and experiences to help people achieve their goals.
John Doerr mentioned in the video a quote from Thomas Edison that says “Innovation without execution is a hallucination”. Something I’ve learned from watching this video is that your ability to execute matters enormously, so it is important to start somewhere. When starting a business with no experience, you will encounter some situations that you will not have the knowledge or the skills to solve on your own so it is ideal that you find people that possess the skills you might be missing.
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