2009
- A Different Kind of “Pitching:” Curt Schilling on Entrepreneurship
- The roads that lead people to entrepreneurship are often as varied as the college campuses, Wall Street, Hollywood, basements and garages through which they wind – and sometimes even lead through Major League Baseball.
Such has been the unlikely path of former MVP and All-Star pitcher, Curt...
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- Entrepreneurship News Round-Up: Week of 7/27/2009
- BusinessWeek shares the results of a new study on what makes entrepreneurs tick - and the answer may surprise you.
American Public Media research says the average tech-company founder is 39 and entrepreneurs over 50 outnumber those under 25 by a two-to-one margin.
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July 27, 2009
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- Question: What is “Startup Culture?”
- In a report this month from the Kauffman Foundation, entitled "The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur," 66.2 percent of respondents viewed “the appeal of a startup culture” as an important, very important, or extremely important motivation in becoming an entrepreneur.
But what exactly is “startup...
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July 22, 2009
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- Entrepreneurship News Round-Up: Week of 7/20/2009
- Entrepreneurs are defying the recession in New Orleans, LA. "Even beyond the employment opportunities created by ongoing reconstruction projects, an explosion of entrepreneurialism... is incubating a re-birth of this historic city." From The Atlantic magazine.
What does Barry Ritholtz think has the potential to be...
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July 20, 2009
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- Entrepreneurial Justice
- Judicial activism, Roe Vs. Wade, civil rights, constitutional interpretation – these are all topics that Judge Sonia Sotomayor has been grilled on in determining her fitness to sit on our nation’s highest court. Pretty much since the nomination of Judge Robert Bork, the confirmation...
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July 16, 2009
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- If at first you don’t succeed… you might be an entrepreneur.
- First calling entrepreneurs lazy, and now saying they’re failures, too? We seem to be going down a dangerous path of late on this blog. But the notion of “The Acceptance of Failure as a Spur to Innovation,” isn’t something of my creation – it’s...
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July 15, 2009
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- Entrepreneurship News Round-Up: Week of 7/13/2009
- Fast Company explains How the Tech Boom Terminated California's Economy and that the dot.com boom and subsequent, inevitable bust are the real causes of our economic malaise.
Dr. Jeff Cornwall shares an article by John Tozzi at Business Week on the benefits of opening your...
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July 13, 2009
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- Entrepreneurs are... lazy?
- I’ve seen it argued that “laziness” is one of the most essential traits of some successful entrepreneurs because it leads them to innovate. They don’t complacently accept “the way it’s done,” if they can figure out an easier, faster way to get the same result. ...
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July 10, 2009
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- Speaking at the 18th Annual Congress of the European Business & Innovation Centre Network (EBN) in Fez, Morocco
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People from 30+ countries, speaking multiple languages, sharing diverse cultures, coming together around one theme – entrepreneurship. So it was recently when I had the opportunity to address the 18th Annual Congress of the European Business & Innovation Centre Network (EBN), in Fez,...
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July 08, 2009
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- Entrepreneurship News Round-Up: Week of 7/6/2009
- Bob Cringley writes about FreshJerky.com, a 1-man shop doing $1M annually on the internet.
George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen discusses the impact new media is having on the economy in an interview with The Economist.
Is entrepreneurship in decline? Steve King says no. BusinessWeek...
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