ENTREPRENEUR BIZ TIPS: TEDxPhnomPenh – Chris Brown – Lean Startup a bootstrapping guide for budding entrepreneurs

ENTREPRENEUR BIZ TIPS: TEDxPhnomPenh – Chris Brown – Lean Startup a bootstrapping guide for budding entrepreneurs

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Software developer, entrepreneur, and general geek, Chris is a vocal and omnipresent figure in Cambodia’s burgeoning hacker community. Chris has founded or partnered in several software startups which are proud to have built their products in Cambodia and sold them globally. Chris is an active member of the Barcamp movement, attending and speaking at events across the region, and is also a founding member of the up-and-coming Phnom Penh HackerSpace. Chris’s vision is for Cambodia’s software sector to leap-frog its neighbors by skipping IT outsourcing and moving straight to product-focused startups fueled by the entrepreneurial spirit that Cambodia has in abundance.

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8 Replies to “ENTREPRENEUR BIZ TIPS: TEDxPhnomPenh – Chris Brown – Lean Startup a bootstrapping guide for budding entrepreneurs”

  1. This guy is obviously not good at analyzing a situation, or picking up on fundamental principles. He tries to say ideas are worthless and maybe he's just trying to be controversial but in the end he's wrong. His arguments are also contradictory – he said ideas are worthless but goes on to say they are "important, but worthless if you can't execute them" and "you need to innovate" when did innovation come from anything other than an idea? even if it's process innovation it's all ideas. 

    BUT that being said, he struck gold when he began talking about "failing cheaply". that is the absolute truth, which is why I love bootstrapping – I think the ability to experiment cheaply with new (or old) ideas is 1000x more important than all the motivational "PUSH THROUGH IT" entrepreneurial videos out there.

  2. Disagree with ideas are worthless… It all starts with them. OF COURSE you have to execute on them and that is all there is to it, execution. But ideas ARE NOT worthless, if you did not have an idea in the first place, you could never execute anything! It all starts with a dream, then yea execute on it, unlike 99% of humanity. But to say that ideas are worthless is pretty ridiculous.

  3. Thank you for making my plans so very clear , I think it is hard to find start up capitol in any market but now I will just concentrate on finding my customer base with Google Ads , I have however spent mt own money on prototyping me idea just to check to see if it actually works , and it does so that is a relief . Thank you for your presentation and I wish you well on all of your entrepreneurial endeavors . sincerely, Donald Brant

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