Archive for the ‘Entrepreneurship’ Category
Monday, April 28th, 2008
A phrase you often hear in regards to life, especially when you’re in college. The importance of “having a balanced life” is emphasized time and again by adults, mentors, and most of all parents.
All through my academic career I was working toward “balance.” The balance between teaching myself everything I ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
As an entrepreneur, I am usually scanning the horizons, thinking of new business opportunities, locating market gaps, and so forth. That's made it both unfortunate and fortunate that I've been going through college, getting that higher education. I say unfortunate because it's lead to a number of ideas or companies ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
I've been examining my post-graduation job opportunities. While I have had offers and spoken with companies (and am still very much in the process) a possible window of opportunity was opened for me recently. That possible opportunity for me was to start my own company. As such, I have been ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
I've always considered myself a relatively romantic person. Surprising my girlfriend (when I had one) with flowers, secret plans, and notes of good will when the time was right. When it comes to entrepreneurship on the other hand (like business business, not the other kind of business) I am much ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
The business school (I ought to say Dr. Harper, the professor who has probably had the most impact on my life) has pretty well ingrained the notion of finding customer demand (for which I am thankful) . Not just any demand, mind you. The kind of demand where you tell ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Harmonix's Rockband has 2 new peripherals. A Microphone and a Drum kit. Why does this matter? It matters when it comes to thinking about modification or accessorizing.First off, the drum kit will be a huge focal point of modification for Rockband. I'd say "I'm calling it ahead of time" but ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Fred Wilson over at Union Square Ventures has a really interesting post on why early stage venture investments fail.
The need to transform and the method that Dick described are two things I have been experiencing first hand with the company I currently work for. The first site we rolled ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
I am a technojunkie raised off the kool aid of Silicon Valley, it's what makes me so good at what I do (the later part of that statement made more as a half truth to be evidence to my silicon valley statement). But as an entrepreneurship student who has done ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
Blegh. I've got a cold tonight and it's messing up my thought processing jive.
Really I am supposed to be doing a case study for my managing emerging ventures class, but I decided to use blogging as a procrastination outlet instead. I don't feel quite so guilty since the main issue ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
0.25c per mistake found.
That was the deal my entrepreneurship teacher made with us. Our class is the Guinea pig of his new book. If we were the first person to find a mistake and tell him, he gives us a quarter.
A lot of people scoffed.
I am not sure why. ...
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