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Developing Yourself Professionally and Personally, through starting a nonprofit
The document outlines Ryan Witt's experiences and lessons learned in starting a nonprofit aimed at helping individuals, particularly patients. It emphasizes the importance of defining a clear problem, developing a business model, building a team, and maintaining patience and openness throughout the process. Career decisions are influenced by learning potential and impact, and the journey of personal and professional development is nonlinear.
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- 1. Developing yourself professionallyand personally, through starting a nonprofit By me (Ryan Witt) E: ryan.witt@innovationandchoice.com
- 2. Me & Innovationand Choice Lessons learned, in starting a company Professional and personal development tips
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- 6. 1. the problemhelping my grandfather live 80%
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- 9. Then… I met+ “ Compassionate Use” +
- 10. What’s the problem,now? Start End
- 11. My personal goalHelp people (survive)
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- 14. From legislation toEducation
- 15. Business model /Revenue My tree
- 16. Revenue + businessmodel Value… Individual donors – patients? private companies Pharmaceuticals? Diagnostics? DTC? public and private grants
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- 19. Today, where arewe Registered at State level, not 501(c)3 On vacation
- 20. Summary of steps& biz lessons 1 specific and actionable problem, define it clearly… Do your HW; make a plan Inspire others & build team Develop revenue / business model Even 4 nonprofit Motives don’t sell, results do. Results take time, time takes money, get money to keep u moving build a sexy solution… Get out and talk (feedback), refine product/service Make mistakes Obey your vision, but don’t be married to your methods of accomplishing it Think big, start small Time it Repeat as needed
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- 23. Hypothesize -> test-> learn/incorporate -> redo
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- 28. Chocolate-y Delicious! “Chocolate can be as bitter as failure or as sweet as success; regardless we must look at it as delicious nonetheless."
- 29. How do Ichoose what I want to do??
- 30. COO @ SDPadres 2 factors for career decisions -- Learning potential Impact potential Your heart Your opportunity cost Other notable remarks… Better yourself Life isn’t linear, always be prepared for those “hidden doors”
Editor's Notes
- #7 How specific is specific?... If you were to go pay for advertising for the solution you built, and target it to the audience you mention in your problem, would it give you a positive ROI? Is it sufficient and necessary to say that the “target audience” you mentioned will face the problem and be desirous of your solution? Not all terminal patients will want to know about how to access experimental therapies – only those who wish to continue fighting will Moreover, not all terminal patients who want to continue fighting will PAY for your solution – who will? That is your target audience. Who is your product focused on helping, specifically? Who gets VALUE Who pays?
- #10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO_ApjKPaI&feature=player_embedded What did I want? Did I want to help people in my grandfather’s and my situation (lack of knowledge)? Did I want to help myself given current circumstances (I know what CU is, but the problems still exist… moreover, if grandpa/I knew, we’d still face those problems)? Did I want to help people in general? 1 st thing is to discover what you want… and stick to it. Pretend you’re a baby and fixated on food. The only thing you want is a cookie… and that’s it. Decide what is your cookie. If any one mentions anything to you, you have to remain fixated on the cookie and ask yourself if doing X helps you get that cookie. I want to have fun and help people in the most strategic way, as well help myself in the most strategic way. I want to make the optimal choice given this goal and my constraints. Guess what, you will be learning your goals as you do this stuff. You will likely tell people you have this goal, but it will change… your motives will change many times throughout your life. But, when asked, you need to have an answer.
- #23 When you don’t know where you’re going, just go… You can always turn around. Just pay attention, form some defined hypothesis