6/30/11

Stolen "Quotes" from the Endeavor Entrepreneur Summit in San Francisco - DAY 2(#eSummitSF)

Courtesy of the wonderful Twitter hashtag ,  here are some great quotes of the second day of the Endeavor Global Entrepreneur Summit in San Francisco!!! Not being able to attend is one of the things that I don`t like of leaving Endeavor in one month :( But if this Summit is like the past two, what an awesome learning experience for all the attendees!


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Ps. The affirmations shared below do not always reflect my personal opinion nor are suggested ways of acting or thinking. They`re just interesting pieces to reflect about!





It's not about the ceiling wall but the sticky floor 

"Some things can be made perfect. Your job as the ceo is to perfect the perfectable." 

"Great people want a lot demanded of them." - Bing Gordon 

Quality of the people reflects the quality of successful, fast growth. Be dilligent about your team quality 

 Joy Sen 

Every employee in a 25% growing organization has to double their capacity every 18 months  .R you increasing their capacity too?

"Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company." Bing Gordon 

"As CEO is to tell people to be ok" - build confidence from Bing Gordon

Focus on your top 25% of your team and expand from there. These people can bring similar people into game, makes you succeed 


"missionary not mercenary" -   true - that is what keep us on every up and downs - resilience.

 the new ceo's role is to coach not to dictate ...

 "Hire ahead of your needs" - Gina Bianchini ”

Biggest risk for high growth company -not hiring right person. Focus on best not average. - J Housenbold  

Lessons learned from . 3) On HR - It comes down to making sure ther right people are ALLOWED to do a great job!

 mission statement gets it right: "people are inherently capable but lack equal opportunity" 

John hamm leadership is a practice, like Medical, is a life journy It always matters.. entrepeural leadership matters even more 


So far Carl Schroeder's key note has been my favorite at the . Biased wisdom of experts vs getting out and seeing new stuff.

"Rookie entrepreneurs maximize value rather than control and get the wrong advisors." - Marc Pincus via  

To be top ranked...your goal is to become the authority on your issue, Matt Ackley Google VP 

Get high page rank with: good content, lists, tutorials, frequent updates, controversy   

Gina Bianchini: Focus on the current phase, but always plan thenext two 

Fail cheap, fail at low prototyping. This way you can try again and again very fast and easily.  


Chris Schroeder: entrepreneurs are/should be free of echochambers. They can ask the greatest question of all: why? 

Excited for Global Connections at Endeavor's Summit - speed dating format between entrepreneurs and mentors. 
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6/28/11

Stolen "Quotes" from the Endeavor Entrepreneur Summit in San Francisco (#eSummitSF)

Courtesy of the wonderful Twitter hashtag ,  here are some great quotes of the first day of the Endeavor Global Entrepreneur Summit in San Francisco!!! Not being able to attend is one of the things that I don`t like of leaving Endeavor in one month :( But if this Summit is like the past two, what an awesome learning experience for all the attendees!


Follow the hastag on Twitter!


Ps. The affirmations shared below do not always reflect my personal opinion nor are suggested ways of acting or thinking. They`re just interesting pieces to reflect about!











"Talented people can from strange places." - Guibert Englebienne, cofounder Globant 

The dynamic of VC industry has changed in the last two years. Build trust with people has become key for entrepreneurs. 

Dan Senor: winning entrepreneurs in high risk markets are the ones who go global from day one. 

The entrepreneur summit is the perfect therapy for people called crazy"  

Use someone else money to start up companies. When you get good at it use your own. Nothing bad in that. Scott McNealy at the 

If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing - then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.  Scott McNealy


Scott Mc Nealy, Sun: "Forget about privacy! Most of the startups here in the Valley r about invading your privacy" 

"Be controversial. But the thing about being controversial, is you better be correct!" -  

Invitation for all VCs thinking about going global, please think about settling in & building ecosystem  - not all money is green


Top 15 IT firms in the US have $250 billion in excess cash. That is almost 1% of the worlds GDP. Hope they use it wisely! 

”Four trends in technology: cloud computing, mobile, social platforms, massive adoption of IT products”. Marc Benioff 

Marc Benioff (salesforce) at the : NOT concerned about web ownership by a few. Dominant players constantly shift.

My personal opinion: while facebook is eating the web, twitter is saving it. 

"Innovation is a baton being tossed between intemporal entrepreneurial paradigms." -  

USA,Uk,France,Germany,Canada Aus&Benelux make95% of enterprise software.Benioff mentions not location rather than where you sell!

Marc Benioff says Salesforce could not get VCs interested in early days, despite performance and connections 

Benioff: building one successful company is more exciting than serial entrepreneurship. Must stay focused. 

”If you are an entrepreneur you have to overcommunicate” M Benioff, CEO Salesforce 

Most things he learned in b-school are not applicable today. On the job learnings are key. Marc Benioff 



'Start ups by definition are the exceptions to the rule, if they are successful' Matt Cohler 

The give back rule: Donate 1% of your profits, 1% of your equity and 1% of your time. M Benito, CEO Salesforce. 

Education for kids is a good market opportunity  (I love this one in particular)

"A decisão mais estratégica que um empreendedor toma na sua trajetória é a escolha da mulher com quem terá seus filhos" McNearly 

Raise $ when you can, not when you need, do due diligence on investors, make ur startup connected to community w global mindset 

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6/26/11

Today I found out what "looping effects" are and through it that "In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"


Coming from an extremely conservative country like Colombia, but also having had the blessing to interact with a wide array of people from different backgrounds (not only while living abroad, but inside Colombia itself), DIVERSITY has always been an striking topic to me. 




..."In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"...

- and this is how I feel about my capacity to embrace diversity. 

I am absolutely sure that my understanding of it is surely way above the average of my closest circle of influence (of course my elders, my husband, some of my friends) - and I remind you, coming from a highly conservative, narrow minded society this is nothing to be proud of. Yet in terms what it takes to understand that those "labels" (woman, man, entrepreneur, employee, poor, rich,  gay, straight, smart, gorgeous, Latin, African, young, old ...) literally do no exist and that they are a mere creation and reinforcement of our human nature, totally implies a deeper level of consciousness that at time I (we) do not have. 

Recently I read this article that shows through sharing the findings of a series of researches that there is something called "LOOPING EFFECTS", nothing else that all those categories that we use to believe, accept and put ourselves in, and what it`s scariest, categories that because we believe we belong to them, define our behavior. Here is also a sense of the in a nutshell:

"You won't find a legitimation of our self-categories in neurobiology. If biology is the measure of all things, then many of the categories we use to group ourselves into kinds of person — man, woman, gay, straight, black, white, professor, cheerleader — are, in fact, unreal. You don't find them in nature as it is apart from our attitudes and beliefs about that nature. At the same time, what could be more real than the way we experience ourselves as being?"

Next time you believe that you perform very good in diversity management, because you "accept" someone "different", please consider yourself a complete mediocre. Are you conscious enough to see that there are NO differences?

Also, have you realized how many things you have or have not done just because you are from the country you are, from the profession you are, from the gender you are, from the skin color you are? I did a quick refection for myself and results where scary. My motivation and highest challenge/goal at this point though is how to be a mother capable enough to transmit to her kids such a vision. 

BIG PSs.

Ps.  Today 26th of July national marches for gay rights (sadly, not yet for gay "pride"). Being consequent with what I just wrote, I wish homosexual activism would turn to pass a message of awareness to "LOOPING EFFECTS" rather than an "ACCEPT ME" speech. 

(for Colombians, aren´t these "city" posters just too cool? specially from such highly conservative cities as Manizales, Pasto and Barranquilla)



Ps2. I love Benetton ads, even if being again consequent with what I just wrote does ass do not exist at all, since they rather stress even more the categories.














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