Lectures on Entrepreneurship, by Johnny Monsarrat

These lectures are fairly old now. It's funny how things change. If I were to rewrite them, they would be tighter and I'd have a lot more to say. But I think it's still instructive to have these posted on the Internet. My intent in creating these lectures, which I gave at Brown University, MIT Sloan, Wellesley, and other forums, was to say the things you can't read in a book. It's easy to read in a book that you need a budget. It's a life lesson to know that integrity and teamwork outweigh pure talent in making a company that works. Or to know that focus is the #1 reason why a startup fails.

So here is The Startup Triathalon, and I have more to put up later!

And I hope you'll check out some of my other sites as well:

• Johnny's List of Weird Boston Events, the most popular blog on events in New England, that tells you where to find fireworks, outdoor summer theatre and movies, historical re-enactments, and a ton of off-beat stuff.
• Wheel Questions, the world record setting community art project where over 10,000 questions about life have been asked -- and answered.
• Hard Data Factory, the startup company that I run.
• Turbine, Inc., the computer games company I founded and ran back in the day.
• The Boston Monster March, a charity event I ran on Boston City Hall Plaza, with a huge carnival and 40 vendors.
• Pink Voyd, my favorite band, which is a Pink Floyd tribute band. I made the website! (Actually, I made all these websites except Turbine.)
• Monsarrat Consulting is a business and IT consulting company I used to run. Now I'm dedicated to my own startup and other creative projects, but if you want a website done cheaply but with A+ impact on sales, I can help you out.
• And even more links are here.

Thanks for reading and I hope to hear from you about your feedback on this content and about your own adventures!