Leadership

15 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.

Negotiations- Heidi Roizen

5:16

Origin of AirBnB- Nate Blecharczyk

8:21

Have Difficult Conversations- Josh Buckley

2:16

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!

Good leaders need to be able to reduce complex and comp...

Many think leadership is about making decisions and con...

Knowing yourself helps with determining your strengths,...

Being a good leader means more than showing your follow...

Leaders need to be good at figuring out other people’s ...

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.

Knowing our own blind spots is important in more than j...

Are you an aggressive negotiator or more of a mediator?...

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!

8 Common Leadership Styles https://www.asaecenter.org/R...

Holacracy - The new iterative corporate structure that ...

What it’s like to work with Elon Musk http://www.quora....

Mean People Don’t Succeed http://paulgraham.com/mean.ht...

12 Traits of Startup Leaders http://www.inc.com/young-e...

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.

We're still coming up with content for this section. Keep checking back for updates!

INFORMATION

A company is not just about it’s business and ideas, it’s about the people you work with and lead as the founder.

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