Entrepreneurial Lessons From Ben Affleck


Bangalore: This versatile man of Hollywood shared an Oscar with Matt Damon in 1997 for Best Screenplay Written Directly for “Good Will Hunting”. He was 25 years old then and barely starting off what was to be a dynamic, late blooming career. In 2010 he received the Critics choice award for his movie “The Town” and recently his 2012 movie “Argo” got an Oscar for the best motion picture. Ben Affleck was the director, producer, writer and the leading actor in the movie – it does sound a lot like the job of a startup entrepreneur.

Just like an entrepreneur, Ben was faced with the task of giving birth to a good idea, fuelling it by raising money for the project, building the product (the movie), commercializing it and making it a success. The ideas for this article were borrowed from Forbes’, Ben Affleck, Startup CEO.

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