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Entrepreneur versus employee (my presentation at StayFresh08)

Posted: June 12th, 2009 | Author: Satish | Filed under: Community | Comments

A couple of weeks ago I gave a quick talk at Refresh Events: StayFresh08 at the Centre for Social Innovation on the topic of choosing the path of entrepreneurship versus employee. Refresh is a rapidly growing monthly meetup that brings together Toronto’s interactive community in a learning, sharing, and networking setting.

The content came inspired by decisions I’ve had to personally consider over the last few years – both when I first became a partner of a small creative agency in 2006 and again when I left that to join the corporate world in 2008.

The presentation was done Ignite style, meaning I had a total of 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide automatically changing. Excuse the fast talking, it was only 6.5 minutes :).

It flows from determining what success means to you, to evaluating the key variables that change, to bringing-method-to-the-madness diagramming, through to why you might not even have to choose.

Here’s the presentation with the full audio track:

 
Here’s some blurry video of it courtesy of @xclarke78x’s phone:

Here’s the collection of my favourite tweets from it:

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  • @aniket - Let me know if you ever want to chat. Think it's always good to act while you have the fire :).

    @rich - Thanks for your positive feedback. I had a good time putting this one together. Business is good, but keeping real busy!
  • Great presentation Satish. Love your enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit. Great stuff! Good luck.
  • Aniket
    Great inspirational presentation, Satish! I'm watching while at a point in life where I debate the same "question"...now I just need to ACT...
    Cheers!
  • Thanks Hilori, you're more than welcome to put that on your fb ;).

    Appreciate the comment Alex. Ignite style provides a really interesting format for learning - both for the presenter and hopefully the attendees. Forces you to be succinct and smart about your content.
  • An enjoyable presentation, Satish! This was a great intro. for me when it comes to Ignite style presentations. Nice use of video + audio as well!
  • Hilori
    That was a great presentation. I might just have to put your "It's okay to fail" quote in my fav quotes section on fbook! ;)
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