Fail Spectacularly

17 LESSONS

WATCH

These are videos clips taken from actual Draper Univerisity lectures. You can learn about entrepreneurship directly from founders, VCs, execs, lawyers, and more.

We’ve cut them up into short, easy clips for you. If you’d like to access the full lectures you’ll need to upgrade to a Superhero Membership.

Aim High- Joon Yun

5:34

Changing the World Through Innovation- Naveen Jain

2:39

SpaceX and Daring to Think Big- Steve Jurvetson

4:27

CHALLENGE

Learn by doing”. These are a list of activities that we’ve come up with to help you practice your entrepreneurial skills. Many of these are again, actual activities that we have students do at Draper Univeristy, designed to push you outside of your comfort zone.

Absolutely feel free to post your progress or results and share with students so we can give you feedback!

Make 5 predictions about how technology will fundamenta...

It’s easy to lose sight of what’s important in life in ...

Many entrepreneurs get rejected by more than 50 investo...

Memorize the Draper University Oath and record yourself...

DISCUSSION

We’ve come up with some discussion questions and topics to help you start thinking in the right direction about startups.

Share your ideas and thoughts with other students. Keep an eye out for Draper U Alumni, mentors, and staff! We’ll come on regularly to give feedback, and share our own insights.

Failure is only good if we learn from it. Think about t...

Sometimes we can even optimize failure. How can you “ri...

Apply one thing you learned from Joon Yun’s talk to ima...

READING

We’ve pulled together a collection of books and articles for you to supplement your learning. These are the same recommendations we give to students here at DU, we hope you find them just as helpful!

The Time You Have Now (in Jelly Beans) https://www.yout...

Book: Physics of the Future - Michio Kaku http://www.am...

No One’s Gonna Remember You https://medium.com/what-ive...

Book: The Startup Game - William H. Draper http://www.a...

A Brief History of Airbnb http://techcrunch.com/gallery...

Taming the Mammoth http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/06/taming...

TOOLS

Starting a company is hard enough on your own, everyone needs a little help. These are tools and servies already built by other entrepreneurs we think would help you get closer to your goals.

We’ve tried to mostly find free to use tools, but some software may require a purchase.

http://startupquote.com/

INFORMATION

As a founder, you must think big in order to have a true impact. Being afraid to fail will prevent you from doing that.

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