本日佳句 – Tina Seelig
Posted in Quote on Jul 20th, 2009
Tina Seelig 是現任 Stanford Technology Venture Program 主任。平時講座多擔任moderator，這回她親自上陣，分享這些年來 teaching entrepreneurship 的心得。以一名教授的標準來看，她的 Passion、口才、反應都算是一流。佳句摘要如下：
The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
the lesson here is that so often we frame problems way too tightly and if we keep unpacking and unpacking them we realized that we have resources that are much larger and more valuable than we even imagined. But we also realized that our own skills that we have and the opportunities around us are bigger than we ever thought at the beginning.
They need to know how to fail, fast and frequently. OK, the fact is as many of my colleagues say, "If you’re not failing sometimes, you’re not taking enough risks." Failure is the secret sauce of Silicon Valley. If you look at the number of ventures that get funded and the numbers that are successful, then you have to conclude that venture capitalists actually invest in failures. And it’s clear that the ratio between our successes and our failures are actually pretty stable. So if you want more successes, you’re going to have to put up with up with more failures.
In most organizations there are endless other opportunities waiting there for you to turn into something wonderful. I realized the other day that when you get a job you aren’t getting that job. You are getting the key to that building. And as soon as you’re in that building it’s up to you to figure out all of the other things you can do. And if you look at people who have really been successful that is what they have done. They haven’t waited for other people to anoint them, for other people to tell them what to do.
Tina Seelig 的著作：”WHAT I WISH I KNEW WHEN I WAS 20”，裡頭提到的 10 點：
1 ) Every problem is an opportunity for a creative solution.
2 ) The harder you work, the luckier you get.
3 ) Find the intersection between your interests, your skills, and the market.
4 ) Try lots of things and keep what works.
5 ) You don’t have to wait to be anointed.
6 ) Don’t burn bridges.
7 ) You can do it all, just not all at the same time.
8 ) It’s the little things that matter most.
9 ) When you are a team, the key is making everybody else successful.
10 ) Never miss an opportunity to be fabulous.
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