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The Start-up of You (A Visual Summary)

A visual summary of the book, demonstrating how you can accelerate your career and take control of your future.

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Reid Hoffman
Feb 19, 2013 • 46 min read
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Summary

Cofounder and Chairman of Linkedin Reid Hoffman and entrepreneur Ben Casnocha summarise ''The Start-up of You'' book in seven chapters and presented it with well-detailed slides. Through the chapters, they teach us how to grow ourselves and our businesses to cope with the dynamic challenges in life today leveraging our in-built entrepreneurial skills, competitive advantage, and good use of information. Open the visual presentation to learn more about strategic personal and business growth techniques from these experts.

Takeaways

  • All human beings are entrepreneurs, to adapt to the challenges of professional life today, we need to rediscover our entrepreneurial instincts and use them to forge new sorts of careers.
  • The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your own competition is to do an excellent job with your information. How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.
  • To beat competition companies develop clear reasons why customers should prefer them instead of others - competitive advantage.
  • We should learn to develop habits that give the limelight to the likelihood of us finding great career opportunities.

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