Trip Hawkins, chairman and CEO of Digital Chocolate, believes that persistence is a very important quality in entrepreneurs. It helps to overcome road-blocks and stick to one's beliefs no matter what others say, he adds. He talks about the notion of the big idea - doing something different than what everybody else is doing or something that nobody has thought of.

1. Persistence and The Notion of the Big Idea
2. Real-world Learning
3. Challenges for an Entrepreneur
4. Learning from Mistakes

Trip Hawkins lectures on Entrepreneurship for Stanford University students, April 13, 2005. Trip Hawkins is Chairman and CEO of Digital Chocolate, a creator of innovative mobile phone applications for life, work, and play. In this Stanford lecture, he talks about persistence and the notion of the big idea and learning from mistakes.



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Last Updated: Tue, Apr 18, 2006



Course Details:

- Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Speaker Series

- Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Corner (ecorner)



Original Course Name: Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Speaker Series.