Technion3DS Inaugural Event - Proper Summation

Israel has grown quite a name for entrepreneurship and startups in the last couple
of years, ultimately named as the startup nation. The Technion, without any doubt,
is the place where Israel's top technological brain power gathers to study and
research the next boundaries of science across its many facets. On the first
weekend of June 2013, Technion 3 Day Startup was held aiming to bring the two
worlds together allowing students from the different faculties of the institution to
form groups and start their startup journey.

Pitching ideas

The inaugural event at the Technion is the latest addition to the many other 3DS
events held at top educational institutions worldwide. 3DS was founded by students
at the university of Austin Texas four years ago to provide a platform for students
to meet and cooperate with like minded students from different faculties. With
more than 70 events held to date and 30 plus companies formed that have raised more
than 11 million dollars, it can be said that 3DS has found the right formula to
spot entrepreneurs and allow them to create winning teams.

The Technion event was setup by Dr. Daniel Freedman, a new faculty member at the
Electrical Engineering department, and Shai Haim, an alumni of the same faculty who
now works in the venture capital industry. "Having seen the strength of the event in
the USA and Beijing and hearing about the Israeli attitude toward creating new ventures,
it was only natural to me to setup the platform at the Technion as the leading Tech
institution", said Daniel. "We wanted to allow these top notch students to interact
with disciplines and issues outside their comfort zone, something that I personally
was missing as a student here" added Shai.

With several participants quoted saying it was a life changing event for them, the event obviously reached its goal. 

All the Technion faculties were contacted to help spread the word and the cooperation
was remarkable. 120 students applied and after a rigorous screening process that included a
personal interview, 38 were chosen representing 13 different faculties. This superstar team
of students enjoyed superstar sponsors who backed the event: Startupbootcamp, a
leading startup acceleration program, Microsoft R&D center, IBM labs, Wix, GKH Law, the
law firm behind the Waze deal, and BDO Israel.

Participants with organisers and panelists

The event began with participants pitches of their ideas to their colleagues. After
selecting the best ideas, they formed groups and began working. Along each and every
point of their work, participants enjoyed the advice of the best professionals ranging
from Waze's founder and president through founders of huge semiconductors companies such
as Zoran to professionals from GKH and BDO.

A gift from the sponsor - Microsoft R&D

The wonderful setting has allowed students to establish eight exciting new ventures:
*Note - we are currently uploading the pitches and will update some links in the coming days
(1) InMyShoes:
A platform that aims to connect people seeking professional advice and people who
have the knowledge from experience. For example, a South African student seeking to
study in London Business School will be able to chat with a person with the exact
same profile.

(2) SeeCare:
A system that actively alerts parents when their baby is about to crawl out of the crib.
The system aims to utilise sophisticated movement analysis to be the active figure on
guard.

(3) CheckCity:
An innovative mobile application that will cater people with a tight travelling time
constraint. The application will suggest them with the best activities to pursue within
the allotted timeframe.

(4) L&B (Lend & Borrow):
A marketplace for lending and borrowing of equipment. While market penetration will go
through exchanging articles for free, the platform will also allow to rent selected
items. Founders believe the timing could not have been better with so many market
undergoing financial crisis, thus making people to look for other methods on cutting /
changing their buying habits.

(5) Groopiez:
Feeling the pain of students trying t collaborate together over a wide offering of
services, such as Dropbox, Skype and GDrive, Groopiez aim to give an easy to setup,
without a login, environment for collaboration that will include all the necessary
features of files sharing, chat and so on.

(6) ProTect:
With 100 incidents worldwide of underwater data cables being torn by fishing boats,
ProTect has suggested an innovative and patentable solution for the prevention of
these incidents. A completely low tech solution that can save billions of dollars
to the telecommunications companies.

(7) Verify.me:
In an era where 67% of internet users state trust as their main barrier to use the
social networks, Verify.me will verify users using a sophisticated algorithm that
takes a new approach compared to current solutions.

(8) BackVision:
700 cyclists die yearly in the US alone. Of which two thirds die on the highways.
BackVision's device will alert cyclist of vehicles approaching them on a collision
course, giving them the needed time to take preventive action

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Technion3DS - Huge Success!!!

Technion3DS took place this weekend and it was unanimously declared as a success!

We'd like to thank:

• Our sponsors for allowing the event to take place - Startupbootcamp Isreal, Microsoft R&D, IBM, Wix, GKH Law and BDO
• The Technion for supplying great facilities, patience and human talent as participants
• Our mentors who came and gave valuable advice
• Luke Carriere from 3Day Startup Global who greately helped making this a smooth sailing

And of course big thanks to all our participants who worked amazingly and came up with mind blowing results!!!

This is a first post in a series to summarise the event and shed some light and what went on. One thing is clear for the next event is that the social media needs to be used :)

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Technion3DS Coming Closer Quickly

It has been an amazing month since we've opened up the application for the inaugural event of Technion3DS. We are very excited with the interest the event has stirred from students, faculties and sponsors.

We'll have an amazing event that is backed by a very strong application pool. Let us give you some numbers. We've had well over one hundred applications from fifteen, that is 1 5 !!!, different disciplines which is quite amazing considering the fact that first reactions were "Startups are just for computer geeks". What's even more exciting is that each and every applicant is a superstar on his\her own. We wish we could accept everybody.

After a careful screening process that included personal interviews with many great people, we had to choose and we manage to agree on a list of 43 people of different background from design and architecture, through math and physics to computer and electrical engineering.

Next begin the actual action with a mixer get together prior to the event to melt the ice down. After that it is a go for three hectic days.

Finally, this is the place to thank our sponsors who enable us to run this event at NO COST to participants and give them the right setting to achieve great things. So thank you to GKH Law, BDO, Wix and IBM for supporting us as a silver level sponsors. Of course, Microsoft who has backed us from the get go with a golden sponsorship.

For our Platinum sponsor we allocate a separate pargaraph: we'd like to thank Startupbootcamp Israel for sustaining the startup eco system in Haifa and enabling this great event to take place.

See yo all soon at the event!

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Technion 3DS - Application is now open!!

Very exciting news!

We have opened the application to the most prestigious event ever. For the first time, the Technion will host this type of event opening its doors to the hidden treasure in the form of its students!

Come meet talent from the top universality in Israel and make legendary things happen.

You can apply until May 12 at http://www.technion3ds.org/apply/

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3DS Technion @ Haifa Launch!

So with a bit of delay - Technion is back on, with even bigger backing and support!

Directly imbedded with the EE Department this will even be an on-campus exclusive! (Quite a rare thing for Technion events!) Hop on over to the dedicated site: www.technion3ds.org

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3 Day Startup Showcases in Bangkok!

There's a very interesting thing going on in Bangkok right now.


With the establishment of the governmental MICT department in recent years, since the Thai government realized it had missed the Technology Wave, huge amounts of investment have gone into IT technology and infrastructure.
In addition to that, a whole plethora of additional technical schools and universities have popped up, pumping out thousands of skilled Thai engineers every year.

The problem however is that there are no Thai startups to absorb all these fresh new talented locals. Instead, Japanese and Chinese companies have setup shop here - in fact they started doing so already many decades ago. These foreign companies are the predominant force that takes in every top talented local engineer or skilled professional that they want. In recent years, there have even been a plethora of European and even American built companies here - entire R&D divisions of foreign companies in fact - that have setup here in Thailand to take advantage of this great market.


Whats the draw? Low cost of living, high quality of life, and strong company loyalty are all part of it. It's not necessarily a new kind of outsourcing - but is quickly becoming the most effective one: where instead of selling R&D to Indian/Russian companies or development teams - an R&D branch is simply setup, relocating the top management with it, to run development from places like this where many foreigners are already eager to enjoy the higher quality and more luxurious lifestyle anyway.

There are a few very harsh hurdles however:
One is the Thai government's protectionism.
A company cannot be incorporated here without Thai national(s) owning a minimum of 51% of the shares in the company. This means that any startup company with any foreigners in the team would be minimalized.
It also means that Thailand is very unnatractive for foreigners to incorporate and setup here.

Two is the Thai labor and employment laws...
...which state that any company - branch, local company, or otherwise - must employ at least 4 Thais for every 1 foreigner.
This is absolutely crippling to a startup, obviously. A startup that typically will have 3 to 5 founders or "core team members" - all of whom are probably not going to be Thai (if lucky - maybe 1 or 2 of them will be). This of course also means that such a startup is not going to be able to hire a team of 20 people to match the team of 5 founding foreigners.
Simply - not possible.

Three is the lack of know-how, experience, and cultural initiative to build a new company.
The current situation is that Thais simply do not know how to build startups - the very concept of a startup is still hard for the majority to grasp. The expertise and experience in building startups is very much needed here, but the current law structure is purposefully pushing that very same expertise and experience away.
Add on to that - Thais as a culture are very focused on structure, tradition, following suit. I can tell you this personally as I am engaged to one! It is an extremely hard cultural mentality to break through for someone who wants to be an entrepreneur - an innovator. The only real type of "startup" that exists here are service companies - or better phrased: companies that build your website, mobile or facebook app for you. These are not real startups, of course. They are small versions of normal companies. Which is, as we all know, the #1 most incorrect definition of a startup.

Now - let me state one more thing clearly before continuing here.
Thais are absolutely hungry to building their own startups!
Meetups are filling up on the same day they are posted. More people are coming than there is room at the venue anyway. When foreigner entrepreneurs enter the room we are almost celebritized simply because we've already done it before and they want to know how. The attention aside (which I actually dont really like - as a foreigner here you already get too much of it, and its never the right kind), the good thing here is that there are a dozen or more startups that have made the jump. So far most startups I've seen are being built by Thais who have lived in other countries (or are dual-citizens) - or are in fact built by foreigners who have either incorporated elsewhere (Hong Kong, Singapore) and tried to cope with the Thai employment laws by finding Thai partners.
There have been a few successes.
Its a budding startup scene. It definitely is - but without a very strong push from something big, it wont get beyond this.

Additionally - so far from what I've learned here regarding the investment scene - is also that there are a huge amount of investors here. There are investors here simply because there is an investment residency visa that is available - quite easily - only for someone who comes to invest here. Thereby being able to permanently live here (which many foreigners want to do).
Aside from that, Thailand is the biggest southeast-asian market. There is an enormous amount of interest in investing here from both inside and out.
What I have ironically found in the tech scene is that there are more investors than startups. I have been told by a few VCs and angel investors already that their most challenging task as an investor here is actually finding projects to invest in.
So that obviously couldn't be better for the task of creating alot of new Thai startups!

There can of course be a few fixes for this:
1) Implement programs here that help Thais learn how to build their own startups. Such as 3 Day Startup, Founders Institute, and so on.
2) Create service and consulting companies based in another law zone (such as Hong Kong, Singapore - which are common alternatives for foreigners working here) that cater to startups.

So far I have seen quite a few of #2 - but none yet that cater to startups. The lot that exist now are targeted towards structured companies. Which is an obvious choice - as startups here dont really exist enough yet for there to be a viable market for such consultancies.

So that leads me to believe that #1 is the best choice to fixing this problem.
Enter 3 Day Startup, and myself. Via 3DS, successful international serial entrepreneurs like myself can help Thais learn how to build their own startups, thus opening the door to a thriving startup scene which can spearhead the rest of the support network that is generally needed for startups to thrive.
Doing it this way will cater to the protectionism mentality of Thailand, allowing them to create things on their own with local ownership.



Here's some pics of a recent meetup this past week where I was invited to present 3DS regarding just these topics I've written about above - creating Thai startups, and pushing for a more prosperous and open international startup scene.

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3 Day Startup Israel - Incorporated!

Big day for all of us!

3 Day Startup Israel - is now an official title. We are incorporated as an Israeli NPO, with 14 active members on staff and 8 on the board.

So Super Big Hugs™ to everyone involved. Its been a long journey here, and we deserve to smile on our future, for that future is bright indeed.

Also a big shout out to Alan Weinkrantz for attending the entire process and turning it into a momentous occassion!

Indeed - signing the papers on the 4th of July was something coincidentally spectacular. At least stateside - this day represents a day by which we remember the liberation and freedom expressed by our independance. The independance and freedom to plot our own course, to judge eachother by our own laws, and follow the pursuit of happiness self chosen.

These tenants are in likewise fashion mimicked by every entrepreneur in the world. As 3DS brings the internationally successful model of creating startups to Israel, the symbolism of signing these documents on this specific date seem to be more than coincidence. Indeed, it seems some kind of divine intelligence was at work here...!

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3DS Haifa looks promising!

Greetings my good folks - yesterday was an awesome experience to meet up with so many bright and beautiful people in Haifa to discuss 3DS Haifa event.

The young adults center recently built by the municipality of Haifa - who also hosted last year's Startup Weekend - gathered a great meeting of minds for us.

We met with the Technion Entrepreneurship center Director, a representative of the Boston-Haifa connection, and of course the various people involved with Haifa and the young adult center entrepreneurship programs.

Shai - a graduate of the Technion who also went overseas to get an MBA - has also been staying in the loop and is now one of our Haifa organizers on the ground up north.

The really exciting part of all this is the collaboration possibilities here:
1) Boston-Haifa connection is interested in setting up stronger ties with MIT and Technion (or Haifa in general) - especially since the Cornell & Technion partnership.
2) Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) looks to be a promising date for setting up the Haifa event, as it is a big week-long activity focus on entrepreneurship here in Israel and especially in Haifa.
3) Setting up an MIT event has been a goal of 3DS for some time. Initial contact has apparently already taken place, and as we already have a Boston 3DS event at Brandeis University it has generated some attention from MIT. Pushing it from our angle in Haifa by doing a tandem event during GEW sounds like a very exciting opportunity.

So how does a tandem, GEW 3DS Haifa event + 3DS MIT event sound to you?
I'm sure the press will go crazy about it!
That sure sounds good to me!
Lets start building an even stronger startup community in Haifa!

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3 Day Startup Luxembourg!

Yea folks.
Thats right.

3 Day Startup is about to collision crash with cindarella-land (sorry - but thats the only way I can describe Lux...lol;)

Train Station in Leige, with a happy looking 3DS Graduate, Elan Perach, ready to rock!

I told you! Cindarella land! This is the middle of town!

They definitely like their Nutella in Luxembourg!!!

Brian Wong definitely kicked ass on stage.
And these 2 twins co-founded a startup together, and jokingly ran around - both of them - as "CEO". Confusing the hell out of people. It was hilarious to see them on stage haha ;-)

One of the Israeli startups I brought to the show - MoneyBox....
I think they'll need one after they gave away $1000 in raw cash! - All in $1 bills, to promote their startup concept.

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3DS South gets a kickstart...

Our southern brother - Andrew Naumenko - setup a really great meeting today with SCE (Shamoon College of Engineering - http://www.sce.ac.il/eng/) which has a beautiful, compact campus which looks like a frikkin spaceship! Seriously. Its cool.
Cool enough to have a 3DS for sure.

Regretfully I was not thinking enough to take a few photos of the exterior - but here are a few of the interior.

Lets see if Ben Gurion can match that. Personally - I am pleased with SCE, so I dont even think it matters at this point.
There is something to be said about the entrepreneurial attitude of the smaller colleges - they can get things done, without so much red tape: what entrepreneurship is all about!

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What It's Like To Be The CEO: Revelations and Reflections

[Full Credits: OnStartups.com]

Dont agree with every single tidbit, but the majority of it - couldnt agree more!

My favorite part:

"You begin to realize that in life, the luckiest people in the World only get one shot at being a part of something great. Knowing this helps you make sense of your commitment."

The following is a guest post from Paul DeJoe, founder at Ecquire and EIR at Fairbridge Venture Partners. This article is adapted from an answer on Quora that Paul left responding to the question “What does it feel like to be the CEO of a startup?” I reached out to Paul for permission to share his thoughts with the OnStartups.com readership. At the end of the article is an epilogue with additional notes. It's worth reading too -Dharmesh

On May 20th, either right before midnight or right after midnight, I can't remember, I posted my rendition of what it feels like to be a startup CEO to a question on Quora. 1124 votes later and one last glance at a notification of an up vote from, Jia Liu, a social game maker from Zynga, I'm going to close the Quora tab and at the recommendation of Dharmesh, write what this last few days have been like, some of the cool things I've heard and some of the great people I've met as well as what I've realized.

With that said, here's the original post that sparked such a fantastic response.

What It Feels Like To Be The CEO Of A Startup

Very tough to sleep most nights of the week. Weekends don't mean anything to you anymore. Closing a round of financing is not a relief. It means more people are depending on you to turn their investment into 20 times what they gave you.

It's very difficult to "turn it off". But at the same time, television, movies and vacations become so boring to you when your company's future might be sitting in your inbox or in the results of a new A/B test you decided to run.

You feel guilty when you're doing something you like doing outside of the company. Only through years of wrestling with this internal fight do you recognize how the word "balance" is an art that is just as important as any other skill set you could ever hope to have. You begin to see how valuable creativity is and that you must think differently not only to win, but to see the biggest opportunities. You recognize you get your best ideas when you're not staring at a screen. You see immediate returns on healthy distractions.

You start to respect the Duck. Paddle like hell under the water and be smooth and calm on top where everyone can see you. You learn the hard way that if you lose your cool you lose.

You always ask yourself if I am changing the World in a good way? Are people's lives better for having known me?

You are creative and when you have an idea it has no filter before it becomes a reality. This feeling is why you can't do anything else.

You start to see that the word "entrepreneur" is a personality. It's difficult to talk to your friends that are not risking the same things you are because they are content with not pushing themselves or putting it all out there in the public with the likelihood of failure staring at them everyday. You start to turn a lot of your conversations with relatives into how they might exploit opportunities for profit. Those close to you will view your focus as something completely different because they don't understand. You don't blame them. They can't understand if they haven't done it themselves. It's why you will gravitate towards other entrepreneurs. You will find reward in helping other entrepreneurs. This is my email address: paul[at]ecquire.com Let me know if I can help you with anything.

Your job is to create a vision, a culture, to get the right people on the bus and to inspire. When you look around at a team that believes in the vision as much as you do and trusts you will do the right thing all the time, it's a feeling that can't be explained. The exponential productivity from great people will always amaze you. It's why finding the right team is the most difficult thing you will do but the most important. This learning will affect your life significantly. You will not settle for things anymore because you will see what is possible when you hold out for the best and push to find people that are the best. You don't have a problem anymore being honest with people about not cutting it.

You start to see that you're a leader and you have to lead or you can't be involved with it at all. You turn down acquisition offers because you need to run the show and you feel like your team is the best in the World and you can do anything with hard work. Quitting is not an option.

You have to be willing to sleep in your car and laugh about it. You have to be able to laugh at many things because when you think of the worse things in the World that could happen to your company, they will happen. Imagine working for something for two years and then have to throw it out completely because you see in one day that it's wrong. You realize that if your team is having fun and can always laugh that you won't die, and in fact, the opposite will happen: you will learn to love the journey and look forward to what you do everyday even at the lowest times. You'll learn not to get too low when things are bad and not to get too high when things are good and you'll even give that advice. But you'll never take it because being in the middle all the time isn't exciting and an even keel is never worth missing out on something worth celebrating. You'll become addicted to finding the hardest challenges because there's a direct relationship between how difficult something is and the euphoria of a feeling when you do the impossible.

You realize that it's much more fun when you didn't have money and that money might be the worse thing you could have as a personal goal. If you're lucky enough to genuinely feel this way, it is a surreal feeling that is the closest thing to peace because you realize it's the challenges and the work that you love. Your currencies are freedom, autonomy, responsibility and recognition. Those happen to be the same currencies of the people you want around you.

You feel like a parent to your customers in that they will never realize how much you love them and it is they who validate you are not crazy. You want to hug every one of them. They mean the World to you.

You learn the most about yourself more than any other vocation as an entrepreneur. You learn what you do when you get punched in the face many many times. You learn what you do when no one is looking and when no one would find out. You learn that you are bad at many things, lucky if you're good at a handful of things and the only thing you can ever be great at is being yourself which is why you can never compromise it. You learn how power and recognition can be addicting and see how it could corrupt so many.

You become incredibly grateful for the times that things were going as bad as they possibly could. Most people won't get to see this in any other calling. When things are really bad, there are people that come running to help and don't think twice about it. Tal Raviv, Gary Smith, Joe Reyes, Toan Dang, Vincent Cheung, Eric Elinow, Abe Marciano are some of them. I will forever be in their debt and I could never repay them nor would they want or expect to be repaid.

You begin to realize that in life, the luckiest people in the World only get one shot at being a part of something great. Knowing this helps you make sense of your commitment.

Of all the things said though, it's exciting. Every day is different and so exciting. Even when it's bad it's exciting. Knowing that your decisions will not only affect you but many others is a weight that I would rather have any day than the weight of not controlling my future. That's why I could not do anything else.

Epilogue

In the post, I had shared my email with everyone to see with the hopes of encouraging anyone that needed any help to reach out to me directly. I was fortunate enough that so many people took me up on this offer. The exchanges we had ranged from skype calls, testing some new products, sharing ideas and even joining an advisory board. Most of the emails I got though were just people that thanked me for the post, shared their contact information, and said things like David did:

"…likewise, if there's any way I can be of help or service, let me know."

For those of you that have reached out to me and shared some of your life with me, thank you beyond words. It has been flattering, fulfilling and, and humbling. For those that have voted up the answer and said some of the kindest, coolest and most amazing comments anyone could ever hear. I thank you. And my startup parents thank you. Suddenly the 80,000lb student loan Gorilla with no income to feed him seemed to take the week off and was replaced with elation when reading some amazing comments. It meant a lot. Thank you again.

What might be a surprise to hear though is that it felt very uncomfortable to me to say "thank you" and I was doing it a lot. Seemingly overnight, there was a collective up vote from over 1,000 people that shared similar feelings and situations. I started to get the feeling that this wasn't me that wrote this and became uncomfortable taking credit. This post gained attention because it was the collective post by everyone who contributed with a comment or a vote and if I hadn't been lucky enough to come across this question, someone else would have wrote this. It might have been better or not but it would have at least been appreciated in the same way had another entrepreneur wrote it.

I don't recall seeing too many notifications of a down vote and that made me realize a few things:

This post became an online meet up for a group of people that are committed to changing the World. And rightfully, as well as fittingly so, it's very difficult and a sometimes a seemingly unsurmountable undertaking. But what was encouraging was not one person in the entire comments (go ahead and look) or in the emails that I received, said that they were overwhelmed or going to quit. They all found this inspirational and motivating and just the little encouragement needed that led to a found appreciation for what they do and and a reminder that they're not the only crazy ones.

The most common response I received however sounded like: "Thank you for this. I forwarded your answer to my friends and family to help them understand." One person even said that their Mom thanked me for the post (Thanks, Renee for sharing). Unfortunately, and sometimes rightfully so, entrepreneurs are commonly misunderstood by people outside of our networks and by people we love. It's mostly our fault. Although we are not understood most of the time, we take for granted that while we're often misunderstood, we are always accepted and supported. What we don't say thank you enough for, and what we often take for granted, is the very thing that let's us be who we are and chase our dreams. The people around us that love us unconditionally without regard for how bad we might fail is the equivalent of a superhero's cape. Without this, and without someone we can share the ups and downs with, great things do not happen. They can't. The things that are worth while to pursue and dedicate a life to involve something way bigger than individuals and have to be completely selfless or they are not big enough and not worth celebrating if the goal does not have the well being of others in mind. A collective thank you on behalf of this group of people that are crazy enough to change the World goes out to you. Thank you. If you are reading this because it has been forwarded to you, please know that you are appreciated and it's difficult for, often times quirky introverts to articulate. You don't have to change anything, we don't say it enough but it's with you in mind that we find motivation. You possess the most scarce resource of all: Undying and unnerving support. Thank you for it.

Lastly, undoubtedly the greatest thing that came from this post was an amazing calm that came over me that was during the most fulfilling, rewarding, interesting and fun week of this tumultuous journey to build a company. It came at the intersection of being able to interact with all of these individuals and being able to see all at one time, the collective resolve, ambition and just how dynamic these people are. The content of who these people actually are, how many of them there are and that they actually exist under our noses, let my imagination of what was possible wander in a positive direction for the first time in a while. It was powerful enough to spin the negative outlook I thought we were inevitably leaving for future generations. What I have just said, you would have not heard me say one week ago. It also made me realize something for which I will forever be grateful to all of those that contributed to this post. I realized what I am supposed to do to be fulfilled and happy in life:

Inspire.

I can tell you first hand, from over 1,000 data points and messages, that there is no better feeling than when you inspire or when you can help. When you genuinely help, it's a good feeling that is impossible to suppress. It's impossible to suppress for a reason: It feels good in the most selfless way possible. Entrepreneurs will make their own mistakes along the way, millions in fact. They have to to learn and improve. Don't discourage them from trying. There's no reason to. It's a useless thing to do and it might be enough to delay the doctor that cures cancer or the visionary that brings sustainable water to Africa when a simple word of encouragement was the only push they needed.

Inspire. Help and do so with other people and future generations in mind.Wouldn't it be the coolest thing in the World if we were the generation that consistently got punched in the face, didn't complain, didn't slow down, picked up our lunch pales and went out everyday to create sustainable opportunities for a generation that we haven't met yet? If that sounds crazy, ambitious, and delusional it's because it is and that's the way we have to have it or it's not worth our time. As crazy as it sounds, I can assure you that it will only require one thing for all of us to do for it to become real. It requires that we all inspire. 

What do you think?

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