You cannot see it from 'A': Michiel Muller at TEDxNijmegen 2013

You cannot see it from A.

If you're willing to stop running in circles and leave the safe shores, if you're willing to follow your internal compass and accept anxiety, if you're willing to see the excitement of discovery, you'll get to a point where you will see things you've never seen before. That is the key point of Michiel Muller at TEDxNijmegen and he shares his insight -- how to get to your personal pot of gold via the Entrepreneurial Route -- in a surprising and characteristic way.

Michiel Muller calls himself 'a serial entrepreneur' and has reason to do so. Together with his business partner Marc Schröder he launched and built multiple successful companies, including Route Mobiel (road service), Bieden en Wonen (Bid & Buy), Vault79 (online fashion auction) and Tango (petrol stations). He (co-) invested in several start-ups and early stage companies like Fashiolista, VONQ and Qandidate.com

Young people never run in circles and easily accept uncertainty unlike most older people, says Muller, and enjoy discovery more. Like 11-year old Jeroen, who accompanied Muller during his talk. Jeroen's mother gave her son a booklet in which he could write down all his ideas, in order not to forget them. Muller was very interested in the content of the book... but Jeroen is not just creative, he also is an entrepreneur... and entrepreneurs are not crazy!

http://tedxnijmegen.nl/2013/04/michie...

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