The best presentation I have ever come across - The start-up is you!

I'm sharing with you the presentation by the founder of LinkedIn, the world's biggest in its niche. This is the most inspiring presentation I have ever come across.

Start-up of You, Visual Summary from Reid Hoffman

The highlights are -

1. All Humans Are Entrepreneurs
• To adapt to the challenges of professional life today we need to rediscover our Entrepreneurial instincts and use them to forge new sorts of careers.
• Today you need to also think of yourself as an entrepreneur at the helm of at least one living, growing start-up venture: YOUR CAREER
• Have a mindset of Permanent Beta, think of yourself as a work-in-progress. 
• Invest in yourself every single day
• Don't have one year experience repeated several times, stretch your comfort zone.
2. Develop a Competitive Advantage
• Differentiate or Die
• You don't need to be better than all professionals, you just need to better in a local, professional niche.
• Know and grow your assets - skills and cash
• Have Aspirations and Values.
• Market Realities - meet a profitable need.
• You can become more competitive by changing the environment you play in. Some American basketball players not good enough to play in the NBA play successfully in Europe; their skills don't change but the market does.
• Picking a market niche where you're better than the competition is key to entrepreneurial strategy
3. Plan to Adapt
• The world is not static. You change, the competition changes, and the world changes.
• Your true identity is not found through introspection but rather emerges through Experimentation
• Be Flexibly Persistent. Always ready to adapt, but also persistent in driving toward goals.
• Prioritize learning. In the long run, you'll likely lead a more meaningful life and make more money.
• Learn by doing. Actions, not plans, will generate the lessons that help you adapt to the next phase of your journey.
• Think Two steps ahead. What next move will maximize the quantity and quality of follow-on opportunities?
4. It Takes a Network
• Relationship matter to your career no matter the organization or your level of seniority because, ultimately, every job boils down to interacting with people.
• People control resources, opportunities, information and the like.
• The people you spend time with will shape the person you are today and the person you aspire to be tomorrow
• Relationships are like any living thing; if they are not getting stronger, they are getting weaker.
5. Pursue Breakout Opportunities
• Develop habits of behaviour that increase the likelihood you find great career opportunities
• Be in motion, court selective randomness
• Tap the networks and associations of people
• Opportunities don't float like clouds in the sky; they are attached to people.
• Join conferences and clubs
• See constraints as a blessing in disguise: it's amazing how resourceful one can get when one has no choice but to be resourceful
6. Take Intelligent Risks
• Risk is a permanent part of life. Being proactively intelligent about risk is a prerequisite for seizing those breakout opportunities.
• There's stiff competition for good opportunities; if you can intelligently take on risk you will find opportunities others miss.
• Build up your resilience by taking up small risks on a regular basis
• Those who regularly deal with small risks will never starve
7. Who You Know is What You Know
• In life, everyday is Exam day. Every day brings new, unpredictable challenges and decisions.
• You get the intelligence to forge ahead by talking to people in your network
• What you get when you tap into other people's brains is called Network Intelligence
• For a life in Permanent Beta, the trick is to never stop starting
• The start-up is you