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The question continues: study entrepreneurship, or just jump in? Does a degree help? Can anybody teach entrepreneurship in the classroom? Can anybody learn it?
You may have seen this post here from last week, about one problem with entrepreneurship education. That post was enhanced by John Wren’s comment there:
I haven’t seen any research that shows a [...]
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I’m not saying this is the only problem. And, by the way, I’m in favor of entrepreneurship education, when it’s done well. I think it helps … but that’s another post.
It’s a simple story. It’s a real problem with business education concerning entrepreneurship in top institutions. It happens way too often. Not that it’s the only [...]
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Did I miss something critical here? The chart at right is from my Choose your own world view post on here Tuesday. I was trying to relate choices to results and highlight tradeoffs; but I wasn’t sure whether these three factors pulled away from each other, or did they in fact work together if you [...]
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Posting on his Small Business Labs blog, Steve King wrote: Don’t Quit Your Job Until You’ve Talked to a Small Business Failure. Amen. Everybody even thinking about starting a business should 1.) Read that post; and 2.) do what it says, talk to a small business failure.
Steve cites a couple posts he’s done recently on [...]
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The sun was coming out, just peeking through from behind the tall pine trees on the hill above my house, as I drove into the office this morning. I’d woken up before dawn and gotten back on the computer.
Does my title to this post seem paradoxical? A twist on the old “the harder I [...]
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I really like this video (8 minutes), not just for what it says, but also for what it doesn’t say.
As Jeff Bezos stands comfortably in front of the YouTube camera, in a garden, with a flip chart, I’m reminded of the “it’s good to be king” refrain in Mel Brooks’ classic History of the World [...]
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Extra post today: I’m proud to pass on the news that Jim Blasingame won a big award at the American Chambers of Commerce meeting last week. Here’s the press release.
I’m pleased to join Jim on his Small Business Advocate radio show every once in a while. The first time I did that, back in [...]
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Jonathan Fields, author of Career Renegade, drew out the best of me for his podcast with me that he posted yesterday. He has a real knack for getting into the bigger issues, like both sides of entrepreneurship, and how important the rest of your life is, as compared to your business.
Yes, we do talk about [...]
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Do you want to make meaning? Solve a problem? Disrupt the status quo? Then solve this problem: figure out a way to monetize investigative journalism. In the new media world.
No, not just journalism, thanks, but investigative journalism. By that I mean the product of professional journalists paid to dig for (relatively) objective truth, like facts. [...]
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You know who you are. You hate selling, but here you are, making your way as entrepreneur, having to sell or sink.
Me? I’m a terrible salesperson. I’m also bad at networking, cocktail parties, and small talk with people I don’t know. Do I seem stuck up, aloof? Not really, just awkward.
I’m probably still scarred from [...]
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