In this discussion with Tony Tjan, the lead author of
Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck, you will gain essential entrepreneurial advice:
1) You can become
more self-aware. Understand the
criticality of self-awareness and see how the Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck
framework can uncover the biases in your decision-making.
2) You will learn
surprising new stats. How many
entrepreneurs really start with a business plan? Are your childhood
experiences and ventures predictive of your future success? What percent
of founders are driven by Luck?
3)
You will be
exposed to the best secrets, habits and principles of top business builders. In Heart, Smarts, Guts and Luck, the authors
have also culled together a “greatest hits” of business practices that are not
only edited to the most essential set, but also presented in a digestible and
engaging manner.
Speaker:
Anthony (Tony) Tjan is the Founder and CEO of Cue Ball Capital, a
Boston-based venture capital and early growthequity firm. He founded the firm with longstanding colleagues
with a vision and aspiration to create a new model for VC that centers everything around human
capital. Cue Ball invests in information services, digital media, and consumer retailing businesses.
Tony’s
background prior to Cue Ball was as both an entrepreneur and senior strategic advisor. In 1995, he
founded ZEFER, one of the country’s first Internet services and large-scale development firms that embraced
multi-disciplinary thinking by bringing together hundreds of professionals who were able to think
and implement across the spectrum of business, design and technology. ZEFER won the Harvard Business
School Plan Competition, grew to $125M and today is part of the Japanese conglomerate, NEC.
In 2001, Tony became the youngest Senior Partner elected
in the history of the strategic consulting and investment firm, The Parthenon Group, where he remains
Vice Chairman today. At that time, Tony also continued his long-standing role as Chief Strategic
Advisor to the then CEO of the Thomson Corporation, Richard Harrington, who is now co-founder and General Partner
at Cue Ball. Over a ten-year period, Thomson transformed itself from a traditional publishing
and diversified holding company to become the world's largest information media company after it
purchased Reuters (2008) to form what is now Thomson Reuters.
Tony is a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow
and has been a speaker at their Annual Meeting in Davos, as well as a speaker for the TED
conference. Tony is a regular contributor and author to Harvard Business Review. He co-authored the New York
Times Bestseller Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck (Harvard Business School Publishing 2012), the
result of three years of research across 500+ entrepreneurs, deploying the first Entrepreneur Aptitude
Test (E.A.T. Survey).
He holds degrees from Harvard College, Harvard Business School, and was a
Belfer Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is currently also on the Faculty of the
Harvard Business School as an Entrepreneur in Residence and sits on several private, non-profit, and
public boards.
Tony Tjan's Blog is available at http://blogshbr.org/tjan/ and you can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.comanthonytjan and take the E.A.T. Survey at http://www.hsgl.com
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Date: Tuesday, January 29
Time: 6:30 - 7:00 PM networking & heavy hors d'oeuvres, 7 - 8:30 PM program
Place: E62-221, MIT Sloan building, street address 100 Main Street, Kendall Square, Cambridge
Price: Free for SACB Alumni Members
$20 for Alumni Non-Members
$40 General Registration
$10 Students/Sloan Fellows
