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8 Disciplines for Transforming Ideas into Businesses
Entrepreneurs are people who dream up new ideas, and then commercialize them into new businesses. Most people believe that the hard part is coming up with the idea, and the easy part is turning it…
Traveling Can Provide a Great Entrepreneurial Education
We all know the definition: Entrepreneurship involves the activity of setting up a business or businesses and taking on financial risks in the hope of making a profit. However simple that definition may sound, though,…
4 Great Business Ideas for Stay-at-Home Moms
During the first few years of being a new mum, all of your time is taken up looking after your little one. As they grow up, though, and especially after they start going to school,…
5 Inspiring Books You Must Read on a Plane
I am a little disturbed by the latest innovation. The last bastion for escaping from anyone sending you an email has been removed. You now can surf the web while travelling at 1,000 kmh at…
Forget Finances: Fear of Failure is the Biggest Barrier for Creatives
The creative industry has quickly become a fundamental sector for many advanced economies, especially the UK. Last year, gov.uk reported that, in total, creative business were providing around £9.6m (~ US$ 11.7m) every hour to…
What Gets Us Into Trouble
One of the most often asked questions I receive during podcast interviews is, “What advice would you give your 20-year-old self?” This is actually one of the easiest questions for me to answer. There are…
10 Mindset Checks Before You Start a New Business
Making the decision to start your own business is a major commitment, with huge implications for skills and lifestyle. Yet there is no standardized testing or certification required or available anywhere to help you decide…
What About Business Schools and Creativity?
I’m generally an advocate of education over ignorance, but there is the issue of business schools and creativity. A business professor’s wisdom The best class I took at the Stanford Business School during my MBA…
Encore Entrepreneur is the New Baby Boomer Lifestyle
Contrary to what you might guess, the highest rate of entrepreneurial growth over the last few years is not Gen-Y upstarts, but Boomers over the age of 50, now called encore entrepreneurs. In fact, according…
5 Books That Will Change Your Life (and Business)
What is your big idea? Found it—or still looking? That one idea can be the catalyst to a life imagined. Just one glimmer of inspiration can transform. It just needs that spark. And that can start…
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