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Permalink Reply by Shantanu on June 5, 2009 at 9:34am

Hello Brian,
Welcome to the PMBA Community!

Great to know that you recently got into your own venture.

When there is so much to learn before you start the venture,
what has been your approach to equip yourself with the required knowledge?
Are you covering one area after another - like business laws first and then
move to accounting or did you just plunged in with the very few basics
and then looked forward to catch up as the venture succeeds?

It would quite be insightful to hear from you.
Please feel free to share your insights and questions on the forum.
Hope you find this open learning platform beneficial for your entrepreneurial
pursuits.

Good to have you here.
Welcome again to the PMBA Community!
-Shantanu

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Permalink Reply by Brian Hatano on July 16, 2009 at 4:11am

Sorry for such a late reply...
Thanks for the welcome!

I would like to think that I am very systematic about learning, but I think I am more intuitive, then maybe systematic.
Intuitive- I habitually spend time reading or watching videos (especially on Stanford's Entrepreneur's Corner), coming across something I think I should learn and then learning it.
Systematic- I always work hard to think about how a venture (or attempted venture) will contribute to my overall goals in the end. If their are things I need to learn to develop a good plan, I will spend time learning as I plan. I generally study 2 different areas at a time- originally by accident perhaps, but now intentional. I find that ideas flow when I am studying different areas at the same time.

Basically, I really believe in planning and systematizing, but I tend to plunge as soon as I can and catch up. I practice constant improvement through reiteration.

How about yourself?

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Permalink Reply by Shantanu on July 21, 2009 at 4:40am

No problem for the late reply Brian!
Time is a constraint for many of us!

I guess I have picked a thing or two from your reply. First thanks for bringing my attention to "Stanford's Entrepreneur's Corner". I will explore it further.

I also happen to read TWO different areas (books) one at a time. With reference to the PMBA books, I realized that reading reference/anlysis books like "marketing metrics" take time and I get impatient to read rest of the books like the ones on management or marketing. Hence, now I pick up an easy to read with the 'analysis' related book.

'Learner' is my strength as per the Gallup test.

Keep me posted on your reading and other resources you come across.

- S Deshmukh

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Permalink Reply by Brian Hatano on February 13, 2010 at 1:04am

Learner was one of your strengths? What other strengths do you have according to the Gallup test?

I recently took the Gallup StrengthsFinder 2.0 and my strengths were in the following order:
Futuristic
Strategic
Individualization
Achiever
Significance
(I also might consider associating myself with ideation, intellection, analytical, responsibility, focus, activator, and empathy)

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