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Entrepreneurs Need to Focus on Culture, Not Perks

By Greg Besner — 2015

I like to define culture in terms of a high-performance culture, one that exhibits qualities like communication, collaboration, mission and value alignment, innovation and accountability.

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The Entrepreneurial Mindset: From Kid to Entrepreneur | Kim Cope | TEDxGastownWomen

In this talk, Kim discusses the incredible capacity that children have for creativity, risk-taking and brushing aside limitations. She explains that the qualities found in successful entrepreneurs are also prevalent in children, and argues that we need to foster these qualities—not squander them.

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2015
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The Making of a Young Entrepreneur: Gabrielle Jordan Williams at TEDxRockCreekPark

Gabrielle’s “Dream Big” message has inspired countless youth and adults and reminds the entire population that you are never too young to live your dreams. Gabrielle’s favorite activities include spending quality time with her family and supporting her friends with their business ideas.

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2013
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Steve Blank: "Entrepreneurship is a Calling"

Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur and Stanford consulting associate professor, explains what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur.

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2012
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The Power of an Entrepreneurial Mindset | Bill Roche | TEDxLangleyED

When we help youth to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, we empower them to be successful in our rapidly changing world. Whether they own a business or work for someone else, young adults need the skills and confidence to identify opportunities, solve problems and sell their ideas.

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2018
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Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More than They Take

These massive dual challenges—and other profound shifts, such as pandemics, resource pressures, and shrinking biodiversity—threaten our very existence.

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Paul Polman, Andrew Winston
2025
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Out-Innovate: How Global Entrepreneurs—from Delhi to Detroit—Are Rewriting the Rules of Silicon Valley

Startups have changed the world. In the United States, many startups, such as Tesla, Apple, and Amazon, have become household names. The economic value of startups has doubled since 1992 and is projected to double again in the next fifteen years.

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Alexandre “Alex” Lazarow
2020
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

There has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industries, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue while capturing the imaginations of hundreds of millions of people in over 190 countries.

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Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
2020
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The Secrets to Writing a Successful Business Plan: A Pro Shares a Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Plan that Gets Results

Secrets to Writing a Successful Business Plan: A Pro Shares a Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Plan that Gets Results by Hal Shelton will open your eyes to insider tips, hints, and techniques for creating a winning business plan and attaining funding.

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Hal Shelton
2017
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The Culture Code

Where does great culture come from? How do you build and sustain it in your group, or strengthen a culture that needs fixing? In The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle goes inside some of the world’s most successful organizations—including the U.S.

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Daniel Coyle
2025
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Regeneration Through Culture: Building Spaces for Communities | Hannah Taylor | TEDxWolverhampton

In her insightful talk Hannah explores the lack of public space and its effects on community and how providing supportive spaces for the coming together of communities to realise ideas is the most important way to regenerate a city.

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2019
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