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Early Employee or Intrapreneur as a lifestyle choice
1. Ian Graham,
Founder and President, TheCodeFactory
ian@thecodefactory.ca
Early Employee or Intrapreneurship
as a LIFESTYLE Choice
Making Startups Happen!
2. About Us
The Team TheCodeFactory
Startup of Startups
Bootstrapped Business
Entrepreneurial
Organization
Eat our own cooking
Mmm, mmm good!
Making Startups Happen!
Algonquin Grads
3. It is about you …
Finding Neo
“You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
MORPHEUS: – The Matrix
5. Lifestyle
Employee / Entrepreneur
TEST FOR DHARMA
“If you had all the time and money in the world … what
would you be doing?”
Do you know?
6. More than a career
Choosing a LIFESTYLE Option
Crazy Ones
Entrepreneurs
The 90%
Employees
Employee Entrepreneur
Banker
Founder
ALL IN
Play it Safe
RISK
Lifestyle
Making Startups Happen!
“Good entrepreneurs learn from their mistakes.
GREAT entrepreneurs learn from OTHER PEOPLE’S mistakes.”
7. Your third choice … the yellow pill
Students and Startups
SNS-1 was in 2009
SNS-16 was at Algonquin in 2014
Our metrics of success are hires and smiles:
405 Smiles, 32 Hires
Connecting students to small teams
Early Employees and Intrapreneurs
9. Your third choice … the yellow pill
Intrapreneurship or Early Employee
Less risk than doing your own thing
Great way to transition to being an entrepreneur
Lots of variety of tasks
You wear many hats
Keeping career options open
You’ll learn a lot and develop new skills
www.studentsandstartups.com