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6 Tips on Being a Successful Entrepreneur | John Mullins | TED

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In 1995,

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a graphic design teacher named Lynda Weinman,

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and also an aspiring entrepreneur,

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decided to get the website Lynda.com.

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She did so because she needed a sandbox to play in,

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with the new graphic-design tools,

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the digital tools that were being developed at that time:

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Photoshop, Illustrator and many more.

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And she needed a place to put her students' work

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so all could see it.

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Well, she put that website together,

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and the business began to grow.

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And in 2002, she discovered it could be much, much more,

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so she moved all of her teaching online.

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Later, the business was sold to LinkedIn,

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who renamed it LinkedIn Learning,

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sold for 1.5 billion US dollars.

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Lynda is the poster child

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for what I call the counterconventional mindsets of entrepreneurs.

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So I want to tell you about these mindsets today,

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and here we go.

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So, number one,

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why do I call them counterconventional?

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First, these six mindsets run counter

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to the best practices, as we call them, that are done in big companies today.

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They fly in the face of much of what we teach at London Business School

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and other business schools

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about strategy, about marketing, about risk and about much more.

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Now, you might say,

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“John, what do you mean by ‘mindset?’”

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A mindset, of course, is up here, right?

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It's those things, attitudes, habits, thoughts, mental inclination

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which, when something comes our way,

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predetermines the response we make to that something that comes our way,

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and those somethings, as we entrepreneurs call them,

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are opportunities.

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So I want to tell you about these six mindsets,

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and the first one, I call "Yes, we can."

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Now, B-school strategy 101 says the following:

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what we're supposed to do, in a company, is stick to our knitting.

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We've got to figure out what we're really good at --

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we call them core competencies --

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and we've got to build on them, invest in them, nurture them,

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make them more robust.

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And if somebody comes along and says,

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“Can you do something different, that’s outside of that?”

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what are we supposed to say?

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"No, I'm sorry, we don't do that around here."

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Well ...

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A Brazilian entrepreneur named Arnold Correia

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built a wonderful business that, today, is called Atmo Digital,

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by disregarding those rules.

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He'd already reinvented his business twice,

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to become a major provider

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of event management and production services,

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when one of his customers said to him,

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"You know, I have 260 stores scattered all around Brazil,"

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and Brazil is a big country,

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"and I'd like to be able to broadcast training and motivational events

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to the stores in real time.

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So, Arnold, could we put televisions in the training room of all my stores,

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and could we build a satellite uplink

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so we can send all this wonderful stuff to the stores?"

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So what did he say?

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He said, “Yes, we could do that,”

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even though he knew nothing about satellite technology,

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had never operated outside São Paulo,

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but he got it done.

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