The leaders of the technology and entertainment industry who gathered south of Los Angeles at AllThingsD all agreed that Elon Musk was the new Steve Jobs in how he inspires us all.

In fact it is the first time I feel so much that everything I have done in my entrepreneur projects for the last fifteen years is irrelevant.

There are many bright minds in Silicon Valley focusing on small things, like the next instant messaging or picture mobile app.

There are also hundreds of venture capitalists ready to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at them hoping some of them get acquired for more than a billion dollars (Instagram, Tumblr...) or go public. Pebble even managed to raise more than ten million dollars without any investor or dilution for a connected watch on Kickstarter.

That's what I used to look at as inspiring success (and of course, it is and huge respect for the entrepreneurs and investors who achieved them), until today.

Elon Musk completely changed my vision of ambition. In just a few years he managed to be successful at three extremely ambitious projects that others have failed at or even given up investing in: solar, electric cars and... space. How many solar companies failed before Elon'sSolarcity became successful? Same with Electric Cars, Elon says he got into that business because no one wanted to invest in electric cars anymore. I kept the best for the end, Space, of course. It was quite something to listen to Elon explain that starting a space rocket business was very easy as there was way too much waste in the rockets production cost that made them too expensive. Elon "simply" looked at the cost of all the parts of a rocket and noticed that it was many times lower than the price of the assembled rocket plus labor cost, something was wrong. He launched , reduced the rockets production price and now even the Nasa became a customer.

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sumber http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130531064815-32720-we-all-spend-too-much-time-on-small-ideas-let-s-follow-elon-musk?fb_action_ids=10201240860253369&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

What if one of the founders doesn't work full time on the company?
Then they're not a founder. In my book nobody who is not working full
time counts as a founder. Anyone who holds on to their day job gets a
salary or IOUs, but not equity. If they hang onto that day job until the
VC puts in funding and then comes to work for the company full time,
they didn't take nearly as much risk and they deserve to receive equity
along with the first layer of employees.

Tentang Kami

Saya mau tanya, apa ada teori untuk pembuatan rencana arus kas untuk 3 tahun saja? terima kasih.

Waktu itu, saya bertemu dan berbicara dengan owner dari angel
investor kami. Namun, karena saya sendiri masih relatif “naif”, jadi
saya hitung-hitung saya dalam melakukan valuasi bisnis yang masih baru
mulai untuk berkembang ini pun masih belum tajam. Sesederhana butuhnya
sebesar “X” jadi valuasi startup saya adalah “X”. It definitely was not a good approach, karena jatuhnya kami ‘menjual diri’ jauh sekali dibawah potensi perkembangan bisnis yang kami proyeksikan."