Entrepreneurial lessons from

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Overview

• Broadway play by Lin-Manuel Miranda• Based on Ron Chernow biography• “Hip hop mixtape musical”• About the “$10 founding father”• Pulitzer Prize for drama• McArthur Foundation “genius” grant• Grammy award winner• And more to come?

5 lessons told through

songs from the musical

“My Shot”

“Non-Stop”

“Why do you write like it’s going out of style? Write day and night like it’s going out of style?”

“Satisfied”

“Wait for It”

• “Life doesn’t discriminatebetween the sinners and the saintsit takes and it takes and it takesand we keep living anyway,we rise and we fall and we breakand we make our mistakesand if there’s a reason

I’m still alivewhen so many have died,then I’m willing’ to-“

Wait for it.

“Room Where It Happens”

“When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game

But you don’t get a win unless you play in the game

Oh, you get love for it. You get hate for it.

You get nothing if you…

Wait for it, wait for it, wait”

“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”- TE Lawrence

Entrepreneurs:

• Work non-stop for their shot at success because they are not satisfied with the status quo even if that means they must wait to one day wind up among decision-makers, investors and VIPs in the room where it happens

Questions?

Epilogue, Part I: The Musical itself and additional entrepreneurial insights

• Immigration– an immigrant is nearly twice as likely to be an entrepreneur as a native-

born American.• Innovation

– Revisiting old ideas –Remixology –Disruption –New customer segments• Creativity• Audience(s)

– Diversity– Youth

• Media– Music, novels, theater

Epilogue, Part II: The Man Behind The Musical and entrepreneurial ambition

What Comes Next?

• Who tells your story?• What modern work “speaks” to your vision

and understanding of entrepreneurship?• Work on now; turn in at start of class on

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