Today was all about getting us ready for survival (leadership) week, starting tomorrow and lasting for 3–5 days. We don’t know what’s going to happen.

Sander Gansen in Millennial thoughts on business & technology

Jul 13, 2015

Day #22–23: Rocky goes Venture

Venture Deals is a must for anyone looking to play the startup game.

I read the book Venture Deals on Sunday and we had five talks on Monday by people from venture capital firms, Udemy and Instacart.

Sander Gansen in Millennial thoughts on business & technology

Jul 11, 2015

Day #20–21: Race to Unicorn

It’s hard to spot a unicorn, but we saw three of them.

These two days were all about speed — we raced with go-karts and visited three fast growing unicorns: AirBnb, Pinterest & Uber. We also asked for a job, got five…

Sander Gansen in Millennial thoughts on business & technology

Jul 9, 2015

Day #19: Crush wood with hand

Have you ever crushed wood with bare hand?

Mastering your life in all areas: mind, body & spirit — this was the theme of today. We looked our values, crushed some wood and meditated in circle.

Sander Gansen in Millennial thoughts on business & technology

Jul 8, 2015

Day #18: Building a balanced startup

Startup is something that an eleven-year-old can build.

Young founder, human resources, hiring & firing and Startup Grind were main things we did besides dropping an egg from roof & doing research by…

Sander Gansen in Millennial thoughts on business & technology

Jul 6, 2015

Days #15–16: Grumbler the VC

Grumbler has become a hit, while I had a session with my mentor, who also wants to become a VC.

Grumbler, Zappos, Reflection session, IndieGoGo campaign and Pitch-deck are some things we…

Sander Gansen in Millennial thoughts on business & technology

Jul 4, 2015

Day #14: Independence Day

Happy independence day!

It’s 4th of July which means everybody is celebrating the 239th year of independence here in the States. Therefore, we were also given almost like a day off, here in #DraperU. We did have some sports training in the…

Sander Gansen in Millennial thoughts on business & technology

Jul 3, 2015

Day #13: Sell some Vibease vibrators

Vibease vibrators for sell and a couple of speakers.

Going out to sell the Vibease vibrators was our main thing for 3rd oj July. But before all that, we had a speaker tell us a story how he hustled himself…