September 2012
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Radio Enso Speaks With Entrepreneur Tara Gentile... →
About Tara: “I’m Tara Gentile and I’m on a quest to redefine commerce as the creation and distribution of meaning, relationship, and experience. And I’m more-than-okay making money doing it. I am in business to change business.
Business should reflect what we value in life. What we treasure and hold most dear. I am challenging the assumptions we hold around work/life balance,...
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August 2012
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“I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I’m...”
– Derek Sivers on Why You Need Your Own Company (via youmightfindyourself)
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July 2012
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20 Way to Find Your Calling →
1. Ignore the future, deal with the present.
2. Shop around.
3. Say yes to odd opportunities.
4. Find a problem to solve.
6. Do not follow someone else’s dream.
7. Blend your talents.
8. Seek out people you actually like.
9. Give yourself permission to change your mind.
10. Ask the elderly for advice.
There’s 10 more where that came from
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What The Most Successful People Do Before... →
BY Laura Vanderkam
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Get to Know these People: 30 under 30 →
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June 2012
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WatchRecession Proof Your Small Business
Great advice from fashion power couple, Elizabeth & David Klein of Beyond Vintage, on how finding a void in the market can create a strong small business
May 2012
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April 2012
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WatchDesign and business can no longer be thought of as distinct activities with individual goals. Design the New Business is a film dedicated to investigating how designers and businesspeople are working together in new ways to solve the wicked problems facing business today. The short documentary examines how they are joining forces by bringing together an international collection of design service...
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WatchBarbara Corcoran on the Secret to Handling Rejection
“Show me an entrepreneur who can take a hit, and I’ll show you a good entrepreneur.”
Via Entrepreneur.com
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March 2012
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Spanx Entrepreneur Shares Advice →
AKA The Youngest Woman Billionaire!
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Make Your Pitch →
Submit your start-up pitch to the NY Times!
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February 2012
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January 2012
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Want to Fashion Your Own Future?
Register for “Introduction to Entrepreneurship” at the Fashion Institute of Technology!
This course introduces students to entrepreneurship and its applicability to the creative arts. It examines some of the legends of the industry and identifies the characteristics necessary for achieving success as an entrepreneur. It reviews today’s creative arts and business landscape and...
December 2011
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Alex Payne on Obligation →
youmightfindyourself:
Back in March, I wrote (and subsequently removed most of) a ham-fisted post about the obligation that smart, privileged people should feel to work on things that might make a difference to other people. This was discussed in the context of questioning whether so-called lifestyle businesses are a good idea for entrepreneurs and society at large.
I’ve mulled over the idea of...
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Lean Startup Machine Day Two →
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The Lean Startup Machine: NYC December Boot Camp →
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Smart Entrepreneur: Sell a Trend →
This video brought to us by Professor Robert Vassalotti
In this episode of “Smart Entrepreneur,” Divya Gugnani, co-founder of fashion site Send the Trend, outlines the strategies she used to build a social business with about 200,000 Facebook fans in less than a year. Gugnani relies on a number of social networks, including YouTube, Pinterest and Tumblr, and also uses...
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The Lean Startup: Build Measure Learn →
Great article by Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup Machine…
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When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter...
November 2011
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“I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work” Thomas Edison,...”
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“The well-worn path is there for everyone to trample. But the interesting things...”
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“All the cool stuff happens when you do things that are not the automatic next...”
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“The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. Nobody will pay you to solve...”
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