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From a very serious corporate career in marketing to creating a business based on fun RedBalloon, this is my journey. In this blog I share what it takes to be an entrepreneur and what I have learned - warts and all. I am also the author of 'I want what she is having' which chronicles the first five years of building of a fast growing business.
Very proud to be awarded National Telstra Business Womens Award for 2008 in the Nokia Innovation Catogory
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What does it mean to be an entrepreneur?
I had the fantastic opportunity to be selected for the Entrepreneur's Advanced Business Program at MIT in Boston. The program began last week.
Early on we discussed how do we define entrepreneurialism.
There was some interesting ideas:
One was 'monetised creativity'.
Stephen Spinelli's definition
A way of thinking and acting that is opportunity obsessed, holistic in approach and leadership balanced. For the purpose of value creation and capture.
It was agreed that
"Thought without action is useless - Action without thought is dangerous".
How do you define it?