Learning from experience

Erik Hanberg gave a lecture about his personal experience in starting his own company at UWT. I was not able to attend his lecture because I was too busy being awesome skiing at Crystal Mountain. It was my birthday that day, which by the way it was only ones (1/11/11) how cool is that? But going back to Erik Hanberg, from what I got from my other classmates that where at his lecture and from what I've read from other blogs. Erik emphasized that in order to be an entrepreneur you must put yourself in the correct situation in order to be able to connect all the pieces together. He recommended going to bars or parties in order to socialize with other people, because by doing that you can great ideas of business to start or if you already have an idea you can get feedback from other people. In order to start a business you don't need to be the smartest or most skilled person in the world. It's all about  making connections with other people and be able to get them to work together. You can just come with a great business model or copy other business model and convince people that business model works and then connect all the people you know to make it happen. Some people will have the skills needed, other will have great ideas, other will have the money or know how to convince other people to give their money, some will have connections with other people. If you put all that together you can get your self a business.