Prior to the dotcom era and the age of Facebook and iPads, it was the lemonade stand or newspaper route that was quintessential first job of the future entrepreneur. Certainly these jobs instill (or at least expose) the essential entrepreneurial qualities of discipline and persistence while offering a daily lesson
An excellent overview of the kinds of funding available for entrepreneurs (startup funding). But this can be very misleading in a way: The “money available” and amounts invested absolutely do not reflect the likelihood of attracting funding from each source – nor do the amounts indicate how effective the funding
Most entrepreneurs end up enduring the “Wizard of Oz Syndrome” dozens of times before they develop their own sense of wisdom – or cynicism born from experience. The Wizard of Oz Syndrome goes something like this: Entrepreneur is standing before Big Influential Investor or fill-in-the-blank [Big Influential Customer, Big Potential Partner, or Big
Last week I published an article, written with Crowdfund Insider director and editor Charles Luzar on the subject of fraud in crowdfunding: Crowdfunding Fraud: How Big is the Threat? We researched and gathered data from hundreds of crowdfunding campaigns to get a sense of the scope of fraud and potential
In this week’s edition of “Cynopsis: Classified Advantage” (part of a highly regarded set of newsletters from Cynopsis Media, for the TV and Media Industries) – Editor John Cox articulates the dilemma many of us face on LinkedIn: … I received an email from someone I have never met in
Ever since college dropouts Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started their trillion dollar legendary ventures, universities and colleges have strived to teach entrepreneurship – trying to capture this lightning in a bottle. During the past 25 years, nearly every one of 7,000 or so U.S. colleges
Samsung had their very first Global Developers Conference last Monday and Tuesday. It’s about time. Apple has their legendary and mythical WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC) where every year Steve Jobs would change the course of the earth’s rotation along with our future. Samsung is beating Apple in the smartphone market
From @cjcornell – http://metapreneurship.net
