I gave a talk this eve at Digibury - a tech, art, creative MeetUp at The Gulbenkian, Kent. I used to run Digibury, but this time was back sharing my experience of how I set up ThinkNation. And how I have learnt to manage my inner founder mentality. Oh, I also fully appreciate speaker nerves now.

1. If you love something let it go
(or how to manage your inner founder mentality)
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3. Founders are known for:
Creativity, innovation, determination, native intelligence,
and a sense of fearlessness.
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4. Founders (often) create something from nothing.
Abracadabra. They’re magic.
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5. Founders are also relentless.
No matter how bad it looks.
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“Hang on a minute…
I’ve got a great idea”

6. Founder’s mentality:
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Founder's mentality (also founderitis) is a popular
term for a difficulty faced by organisations where one
or more founders maintain disproportionate power and
influence following the effective initial establishment of the
project, leading to a wide range of problems for both the
organisation and those involved in it. The passion and
charisma of the founder or founders, which was such an
important reason for the successful establishment of the
organisation, becomes a limiting and destructive force,
rather than the creative and productive one it was in the
early stages It occurs in both non-profit and for-profit
organisations. It may simply limit the further growth and
success of the project, may lead to bitter factionalism
and divisions as the scale of demands made on the
organisation increases, or may result in failure.
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7. Basically, get it wrong and the founder mentality
suffocates opportunity, ruins possibility and
buries potential in a fog of ego.
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8. @lizziehodgson01 @thinknat
3 simple steps to manage your
inner founder mentality:

9. @lizziehodgson01 @thinknat
Step No.1

10. @lizziehodgson01 @thinknat
Step No.2

11. @lizziehodgson01 @thinknat
Step No.3

12. @thinknat
Our collaborators… and counting

14. Thank you.
thinknation.co
#TN2015
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