A Sign of the Entrepreneurial Times. B-School Startups
By Tim Berry
According to Vital Signs – WSJ.com: The number of students from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business who have chosen to start their own businesses within four months of graduating has grown to 16% among the 385-member class of 2011—more than a fivefold increase since 1990, according to the university. Only 3% of the 1990 class... Read More »
Disrupt Education … Please!
By Tim Berry
I wonder if we as a society are ever going to figure out how technology can disrupt our antiquated systems for educating our children. Think about what’s happened to information, social interaction, research, and business over the web — not to mention mobile technology — and then think about education. Preschool, K-12, and higher education.... Read More »
1 Great Tip for Better Story Power for Business
By Tim Berry
Here’s a great tip for anybody presenting anything to an audience: Skip the boring preamble. Many times we feel like we have to do a lot of prefacing, but four minutes goes by quickly. If you spend two minutes on background, you’ve lost an opportunity to grab attention. Far better to leave the identifying bits... Read More »
Steve Jobs on How to Live Before Dying
By Tim Berry
I’m really sorry that people have to get old and die. This is my tribute to Steve Jobs. If you don’t see it here, please click here for the original. Read More »
Disrupt Education. Save the World.
By Tim Berry
Is there any generalized institution in the world that needs disruption more badly than education? Right now there are more than a billion people under 10 years old. How well do you think we adults are doing with educating all those kids? You can’t have a leading economy and a lagging educational system I know... Read More »
Live and Breathe Your 5 Main Assumptions
By Tim Berry
I love this, a very short snippet video from venture capitalist Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Ventures. This is one of Stanford’s eCorner videos. I like their summary: Ann Winblad advises entrepreneurs to boil down their business plan and tell everyone in the company the top five assumptions for success. “As time goes on, turn... Read More »
Time, Not Money, is the Key To Happiness
By Tim Berry
Evidence gathers. I posted research agrees: time is the scarcest resource more than a year ago. Then this week I found Research Finds Time As A Means to Happiness in a Stanford business school publication. This one is about a new study with similar findings, plus a summary of several others. New research takes a... Read More »
Is Networking Friendship, or Just MBA Speak?
By Tim Berry
What do you think about this? The networking connections are one of the most valuable benefits of an MBA. Five to ten years down the road these people will either be running their own businesses or have high-level positions in large companies. That’s a comment to my post here and on Small Business Trends. I... Read More »
Who Knew? Actions Give Better Data Than Words
By Tim Berry
At first glance, Paying Star Employees Well is a Good Strategy for Innovation in a Stanford business school newsletter seems like one of those “no-doh” discoveries that happen when academics turn their focus on the real world and end up confirming the obvious. But I clicked, and read, and it turns out to be much... Read More »
Why Business Planning is Like Regular Exercise
By Tim Berry
I’ve been meaning to post about this for a couple of weeks now, ever since somebody tipped me off to Gentle Nudges Work to Get People Exercising on WSJ.com. That report cites research showing that regular reminders helped people get regular exercise. Phone reminders from real people worked better than computer reminders. And both kinds... Read More »
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