Jessica Mah - Teens in Tech Conference
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Jessica Mah of internshipIN giving her keynote at the 2009 Teens in Tech Conference in San Francisco, CA. http://www.teensintechconf.com
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- 1. I’m ignorant, naive, and poor... ! and that’s what makes me ! one awesome entrepreneur! Jessica Mah! Teens in Tech - 1/31/09! jessicamah@jessicamah.com!
- 3. The awesome things that ! young people have:! But you know what? These Ignorance! things are precisely what make you and I amazing Naivety ! entrepreneurs. Arrogance! for the next 15-20 minutes, No Commitments! Poverty! The uncanny ability to procrastinate!
- 4. we’ll systematically bust these myths about being teens in tech and entrepreneurship.
- 5. (clone)! $$$! $$$!
- 6. srsly... high school is a waste of time!
- 8. Mom! be doctor!!!!
- 9. except by doing so, we look like fools -- we don't know realize that running a company means managing money, legalities, getting sued, and even worse, annoying customers.
- 10. from a recent conversation...! Me!!
- 11. all nighters? on homework? ! what a joke.!
- 12. commitment is my middle name!
- 13. You go to networking events, and people say quot;so what do you do?quot; [ act out typically networking scenario! ] I call this “lowering expectations”!
- 14. my personal favorite :p!
- 15. 04/2008! ...! uncalled for!
- 16. ... but we don't want to fail, even if we're allowed to. We want to be hotshots; top of our peer group.
- 17. Since you and I are dirt poor, we have no choice but to start companies with absolutely no money.
- 19. A for effort?!
- 20. All the best things that I did at Apple came from:! not having money ! (a) (b) ...(other equally important points go here)...! Steve Wozniak! Co-founder, Apple!
- 21. wanna hack at! my place?!
- 22. (not actually my friend Dalga)!
- 23. life is awesome! (not actually my friend Dalga)!
- 24. Once you start, thereʼs no going back
- 25. +! +! Cheap House! Beer! Poor Student! The ideal, poor, young =! entrepreneur!!
- 26. Being the lazy teenagers that we are, homework is out of the question -- we're absolute masters at procrastination! But fortunate for you, this can be used to your advantage. [ story about how andy and i started on internshipin ] i think it’s world of warcraft!
- 29. now go work on your startup kthnxbye!! Jessica Mah! http://jessicamah.com! jessicamah@jessicamah.com!