By: Samantha Prince
On January 14, 2019, Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello, hosts of the PBS TV show White House Chronicle, and world-renowned journalists, visited Dickinson Law! Llewellyn and Linda started their day by speaking to first year law students about advocating through writing. They provided pivotal advice for overcoming writer’s block. “Do not let writing become your enemy.” “Get what is in your head into the reader’s head.”
Throughout the day, they spoke to several faculty members on topics that ran the gambit: cyberlaw, smart cities and the fourth industrial revolution; elder law; international human rights; entrepreneurship, etc. Linda and Llewellyn also met with a group of our law students to talk about 
student career aspirations and ways to make a difference. We look forward to our next visit together.
Notably, Llewellyn owned a publishing business for over 35 years and it was his entrepreneurial endeavors and advice that our Entrepreneurship Law students sought to hear about. While speaking in our class, he gave the students some great advice on both being entrepreneurs and advising them. I thought I’d pass some of this valuable advice on to you:
What’s important for an entrepreneur … “You must know yourself.”
What should serial entrepreneurs do when they keep coming up with new ideas? “Serial entrepreneurs should hire well. You can hire people to manage your business then move on to your next idea. There are people that are good at managing and they can handle that sort of thing for you.”
Professionals advising entrepreneurs need to “tell you how to do what you want to do. Not tell you how to run your business.”
While all of this is important advice, the latter cannot be stressed enough. Lawyers need to determine what the entrepreneur wants to accomplish and propose ways to achieve said accomplishment. They need to be flexible with the entrepreneur and work as an innovative partner, not as a block to entrepreneurial success.
Informative Links:
How to build smarter smart cities | White House Chronicle
The Coming Convulsion of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
