Why is it that when the word “success” is brought up, our mind immediately…
By Jessica Ogilvie
Don’t just love…
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget…
Last week I finished reading ‘Man’s Search for Meaning,’ a book by Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl…
Recently I’ve been researching human capital contracts, also known as income share agreements (ISA’s). The interest came from a subway conversation and a desire to scale my current efforts in assisting minorities through a for-profit effort.
Balancing making a living with working towards your dreams.
I distributed a single from a very talented artist to all digital service providers…
How aidx will use technology to empower refugees
When you become an…
— Jesse Harrison, Founder and CEO, Employee Justice Legal Team
by Cancergeek
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it…
As a gay man in my late 30s (shut up, ask my surgeon, he’s a liar and I hate him, please can we all just move on?), it…
We’ve been taking some time to look back at 2017, as most of us are wont to do this time of year. And now seemed like an appropriate time to share some of these…
For the past few years with the rise in start-ups and tech companies…
Originally published at www.forbes.com on July 20, 2017.
I remember the talent show at summer camp — I was supposed to sing Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful.” I…
There is a new programming language. Except rather than being used to program software, it’s used to program the human mind — the founder’s wetware — and to engineer emotional states.
One of the first projects I got to work on when I joined the Kapor Center in…
By: Katerina Gan
Delivering everything from beauty products to cooking kits, businesses built off of subscription box business models are disrupting the e-commerce industry. The marketability of this model is driven by the idea of…
My feelings and such.
“Foundation Launches An Innovative All-Inclusive Platform and Hires New Executive Director”
Define Yourself, Heads Or Tails
When I was 9 years old all I wanted to be was a professional baseball player. I wore my batting gloves in the house, could mimic the batting stances of all my favorite players, and went to watch my hometown team play almost religiously.
Should you hire a CFO or outsource one?
Written by Alan Jones, KPMG High Growth Ventures EIR & fellow Medium junkie
Reading this, you’re either “on a roll”, or you’re not. I think that we all spend time researching, reading, and…
“When they say ‘No’, most people just hear ‘No’…but some people hear ‘no worries, let me make that a ‘yes.’”
The innate fear of rejection. We all suffer from it. But the fundamental difference between…
Kris, I Liked #8. When you say What I am afraid of. These are profound thoughts of yours and they will happen. There’s nothing wrong with wanting more out of life. Everyone sees it as a problem and it’s not. It’s what we do with the feeling that matters.
The Gary Vaynerchuk message of hustle simply has to be balanced with common sense. I love his insight, vision and message to have patience, but his message of “hustle” cannot be applied literally — although I have no doubt he means it that way. Enjoyed your perspective Jon! Bill Tomoff Olivia Tomoff
The road to Financial Awareness
Handle Expectations Like a Boss
Expectations are annoyingly tough to define. You often find yourself navigating the fine line between goal crushing euphoria, and the slippery slope of the seemingly insurmountable odds of reaching the peak of the tallest mountain. How can you possibly attempt to handle the expectation when…
Resourcefulness: the ability to find clever ways to overcome difficulties.
Perseverance: steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.
It’s fun, but I just wish HitBTC would include the dollar equivalent next to each trade so it was easier to track your basis.
Best way to put your idea into reality is to start working on it everyday.
Entrepreneurs are as diverse as the businesses they start. A lot of people focus on the…
Whether a customer interested in the process or a business weighing up the options for the…
Explains the universe. Your universe. All universes.
We all need a change of pace every now and then to spark creativity and help us escape our…
Back to school….but not yet! January marks the start of a new semester for many students…
It’s all about essentialism!
Recently, I published an article called The Nonprofit Stigma. You may have seen it floating around the inter-webs. It stirred up quite the discussion, in part, because of statements like this:
“The Nonprofit Stigma is that…
Crowdfunding can be an ideal revenue generator for those looking to get their…
By Kathryn Song
Many of you have probably heard of Uber, Lyft, Spotify, and SpaceX. These kinds of new tech firms seem to dominate the current business landscape, and all are categorized under one umbrella term: unicorn. Although many unicorns are in the…
I am a writer…..after work. I initially considered this a side hustle as a content creator. I pushed and pushed and got nowhere. I have been at this off and on for years. But I recently did some fiction writing. I did it to get out of a deep writers block. And I got positive feedback. I…
Social spaces of tomorrow: the example of Anticafé
There is a curious trend taking over Europe, over the world. Self employment is now a fully functional…
Named by Forbes as one of Africa’s 30 best entrepreneurs under 35, Chude Jideonwo is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of RED — which creates media experiences that inspire young Africans to take action.
I’m a student at ITESM, a top tier university located in Mexico. Honestly before the last 9 days, I had never been a fan of school, you…
Branding matters. It matters because it speaks to your audience in a way that none of your other…
Clipchamp’s CEO and co-founder Alexander Dreiling knows what it takes to start a successful tech startup. Here he shares his advice for all future entrepreneurs about taking that first leap of faith and getting started.
22/26: An A-Z reflection on what I learned in 2017
Ya he hablado bastante de la necesidad de ENTENDER LA OPORTUNIDAD, en concreto de analizar el entorno, detectar tendencias y monitorizar la competencia, cuando quieres lanzar un producto o servicio al mercado. Son pasos…
A brand and its story are the life of the business. Some execs and others may disagree with me. I am…
Orewa Makeover
My name is Babajide Regina Oreoluwa, I am a makeup artist; I started makeup art back in my university days but I officially started…
You know when at first you feel like there’s something missing, or that it’s not…
Many years ago, I had a boss who told us we had to read Stephen Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. He told us a story from the book about deliberately setting one’s watch several minutes ahead in order to be more proactive. A wise guy colleague of ours boasted that…
Have you ever heard a news story that revealed the high salary of a nonprofit executive and had a knee jerk reaction of distaste or resentment? You may have even believed in their cause, or their effectiveness, but that feeling still didn’t go away. I know I used to have that reaction: “They…
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Prestigious Awards Program Recognizes World’s Top Women Entrepreneurs
RALEIGH, N.C. December 11, 2017 — Monica Smiley, publisher and CEO of Enterprising…
A few years ago there was a great talk by Dan Pallotta about charities.
A short presentation on early-stage financing with a primer on how angel investors consider equity investments in high-growth companies at their earliest stages.
Journaling is powerful!
“He said: failing is not just for failures
The behavior I see most frequently in young developers is what one of them described to me as the “raging bull strategy”. I loved the name. It means “just keep trying random things until it works.”
Let’s face it: most of us must work for a living. And if we’re lucky enough, we can, and we do. The workplace…
My heart is beating 90 bpm. I know because my Fitbit keeps telling me so. It’s the eve of launching the first…
Growing up, I loved fairy-tales and would often spend the majority of my lunch breaks in the library…
Большинство рекламных сотрудников совмещают основную занятость и фриланс.
Самые активные среди них — это специалисты дизайн-студий и рекламных агентств со стажем от 5 лет, с хорошими связями и репутацией на рынке рекламных услуг. Контакты таких…
Goal setting is fun. It’s nice to feel that ambition and motivation when thinking about all that we will achieve in the next 5 years. The money, fame, family, and happiness that will all come our way…
There are basically three types of writers out there.
The ones who have an amazing imagination and can tell amazing stories.
The ones who experience fascinating stories and then write about these fascinating stories.
Accessthisability is now on Product Hunt. Gives us an upvote 👊
As a real estate CEO and entrepreneur, I’ve built two multi-million dollar brands. Here is the advice I would give, based on my 20+ years of successful experience, to other female entrepreneurs who wish to do the same.
One of the things you’ll find reading my company’s New Year’s resolutions is that we’re shifting away from talking about the services we offer. Instead, we want to focus on the solutions we can bring to the table. This is due to us defining our brand…
Peloton is changing the way people get fit by delivering live-streaming, instructor-led, group…
As mentioned in my previous post, Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point aims at three styles of social wizardry as the key factors behind social epidemics. Gladwell identifies individuals with these social gifts as Connectors, Mavens or Salesmen. Although individuals are…
I am working 10–11 hours a day and I work 5–6 days a week. In coaching entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs…
It is impossible for us to predict the future but we can create it.
When was the last time you were bored? I don’t mean “playing on your phone instead of paying attention,” I mean B-O-R-E-D. Not very long ago, the world forced boredom on us regularly. Now, I can’t remember the last time I was in a situation in which I couldn’t pull out my phone and start doing…
Tomorrow, January 23rd, I turn 29 years old, young, whatever.
Dear B.,
In your kind email, you ask if I (or if someone else) can teach you entrepreneurship.
That is a very nice request, but that forces me to a lot of humility.
I’m not speaking for all chronic creators when I say, I have an issue with commitment. I describe myself as that because I enjoy making multiple things in shorter periods of…
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Economic growth almost exclusively comes from new jobs, generated by new companies.
Spice Without Borders is a global leadership academy and incubator for social change innovation that provides…
THE ROAD TO EVER AFTER: PLOT TWIST The road to Ever After is a very bumpy road and it’s almost guaranteed that not everything will go according to plan. That’s fine, you can find…
Having heard and read Gary Vee there was always something off about him. First, his staff white washes criticism from any social media. I tried to see him actually engage real criticism and I couldn’t find any. That….isn’t normal or natural or showing leadership. Leading is transparent. I tried his methods and I found myself hating life. Being…
The figures of how many new small business fail are incredible. The figures of how many small businesses don’t have a website are incredible. The figures of how many small businesses don’t have an active Social Media…
by Romario Villanueva | January 22, 2018 |
1) Give the “What”
A theory, concept, or an idea of what makes something works. Example: “What makes the difference between the successful VS failed business is the quality of relationship it built publicly with customers and privately with…
Thanks Gaël for sharing your story. Best of luck!
Crowd funding brings you a lot of good free PR. People often underestimate the value of PR. As you mention, you needed to contact journalists who would run your story and get you exposure. It’s important to have the right pitch that makes your story not only authentic and…
PRIMER ACTO
Mi atinado sentido de la moda me informa que la próxima tendencia será; un pantalón bufanda.
This is a wonderful approach, thanks for sharing, Heather.
I agree the future of meaningful journalism must have a collaborative element.
How do you foresee the financial piece playing out? How do journalists get paid for their work and effort?
BLOCKCHAIN IS THE NEW ORGANIZATION PARADIGM
You opened the possibilities of blockchain to many people with this article. The two keys, in the broadest terms, are what you mention — automated trust and human creative freedom.
Cliff, I enjoyed the read. Great information.
“Ultimately, to call yourself data-driven, you need a data analytics platform that can answer almost any question, including:
Following your dreams takes a certain level of risk. A willingness to venture into the…
Why be a Salaryman, when you could be a Founder, a Visionary, a Role Model!
Processing symbols. Why and how we do it. A computer needs a computer to survive.
Only two options in life
Leadership is one issue on which the only consensus is that there can be no consensus. However, in my…
Each year we like to put together a list of the top conferences for entrepreneurs…
Valores de trabajo duro, en equipo, familia y honestidad. Jaime, economista de profesión de la Universidad Santo Tomás de Bucaramanga, orgullosamente Cucuteño y Calasancio.
Russell Raynor Robinson founded Titan Manufacturing and Distributing, Inc., over 10 years ago and currently leads the company as chief executive officer. Alongside his work as a business executive, Russell Raynor Robinson maintains membership in Vistage, a…
What headway is Agritech making this year?
2018 celebrations have taken place and the year is well underway, marked by many sprouting opportunities in the…
It is proven that many of our money habits are inherited from our parents. If you stop and think about the way your parents handled…
This post originally appeared on www.benpdavis.com.
One of the major forces in computing right now is the deployment of software via ‘containers.’ From Docker: “A container…is a lightweight, stand-alone, executable package of a piece of…
I’ve been journaling around 3–4x a week for the past year or so now. Basically, I focus on asking myself 3 questions every morning.
The first question I write down is: What good will I do for the world today? ( I learned that Ben Franklin…
Great read, Aleesha!
I have a history on Etsy too,
selling dog accessories.
I didn’t do as well as you did.
But at least I found out what didn’t work.
That’s important too, right?
I have always enjoyed walking and riding in a park near my home. Like the Druids of ancient Gaul, I all but worship an…
Aloha! We started this on Thursday and I said four days. But I thought I would give…
