Complacency will destroy you
“For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.”
Proverbs 1:32
Are you complacent? What about your team? Your company?
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The criteria for innovation
When we spoke of innovation while I was in the Cameron School of Businesses’s entrepreneurship program, I always felt like something was missing. Often times the business ideas that students came up with were still the same sports bar, bed and breakfast, and restaurant from years past. Now, it really could be that America needs [...]
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Business developer or entrepreneur?
We recently had a committee meeting for the development of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Emerging Ventures that will be created in Wilmington, NC. The committee is comprised of about 30 of the most prominent business people in Wilmington, and what we do on the committee is essentially lay the foundation and the planning for [...]
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Balance
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 wanted to know, learning about [...] -
He thanked me
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 talking to a few select [...]
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Eat your own dogfood
I just saw one of Guy Kawasaki’s earlier presentations (mid 90’s, great speaker) where he goes over 10 tips for entrepreneurs. One of these tips is to “Eat your own dogfood.” The thought behind it is quite simple:
Know what it is your users (or consumers) go through by doing it yourself.
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Entrepreneurs – Transform or die
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 out (I came in end [...]