Tina Seelig asserts that your approach to life determines whether or not problems will drive you to look for new rather than already known solutions. This she describes in her book, “What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World”.
Tina Seelig leads the Technology Venture program at Stanford University and is involved there with partners such as Hasso Plattner Institute of Design to train the next generation of innovators.
Amongst the experiences which she describes in her book, she also brushes a bit on the copycat debate. Copycats are often defended based on pure commercial considerations, such as the assertion from Oded Shenkar in his book “Copycats: How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge”. But how fulfilling is it to start up a copycat business for an entrepreneur?
“What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20” contains several good thought provoking stories and is a recommendation received by one of our Exciting Commerce readers.
This and other book recommendations are to be found in our books column.
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Originally posted in German by Jochen Krisch, adapted for excitingcommerce.com by Jason Soo.
I love the book..Thanks for sharing this book here..
Posted by: Anthony Spence | 09/10/2011 at 04:45 PM