Noubar Afeyan: evaluation

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…How did you learn how to teach that? By putting myself in the shoes of the students and imagining what I would have wanted to know before I launched down a path of doing entrepreneurship in as professional a way as I could fathom because I also think that, generally, the field believes that entrepreneurship is condemned to be a perpetual, improvisational, unprofessional act. I, some 25 years ago, decided that it would be much more productive if we could think about which aspects could be made more professional. The first way to do that is to figure out that it’s neither genetic nor somehow only about these amorphous characteristics than hard work, learning ways to do the future-backwards planning that we’re involved in. It turns out those things can be learned by both practice and by hearing about case examples and how people make decisions. Now, at Flagship, you have a string of successes of what, over 40 companies that you have helped to create. Is that correct?…

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