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Posted in Business Inspiration, Life of Meaning on Mar 9th, 2010
Watch this video of Aimee Mullins from the Ted Med Conference and see for yourself. (It might be long, but it’s worth watching.)
Many successful entrepreneurs have shifted their thinking from seeing problems as hurdles they must clear to seeing them as opportunities. Ask yourself:
Are you utilizing your “X Factor”: the potential of the human will?
How [...]
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Business, Higher Education on Jan 25th, 2010
Is your business ready for 2010 and beyond?
Have you seen the “Did You Know?” video yet? Sony Corp just showed it at their annual shareholders meeting. It highlights the pace of innovation and how it’s expected to accelerate in the next decade. It was also featured in Time magazine (”What College Students Don’t Know”) and [...]
Posted in Business Inspiration, Entrepreneurship & Business, Starting a Business on Oct 21st, 2009
In light of the most recent Children’s Business Fair, my awareness for other, much larger ways for children and adolescents to get involved with entrepreneurship has increased tremendously. There are so many good programs out there that engage young, budding entrepreneurs to take control and make their dreams come true.
I came across this NYTimes.com article [...]
Posted in News, Starting a Business on Sep 30th, 2009
Never fear, help is here.
The U.S. Commerce Department is doing two things to aid aspiring entrepreneurs of today: the creation of the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship within the Department of Commerce and the launch of a National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Posted in Acton E-Teachers, Awards on Sep 18th, 2009
Congratulations to Ben Allen, CEO of Acton Publishing, for being nominated for the 2009 Austin Business Journal Tech Innovator Awards! The Tech Innovator Awards celebrate the top tech innovators in Central Texas and their accomplishments.
Ben is also a 2007 alumnus and current practitioner at Acton. Acton Publishing creates the curriculum for Acton and online courses and the online sim games.
Winners will be [...]
Posted in Acton E-Teachers, Entrepreneurship & Business on Aug 16th, 2009
You want your company to stand out against all of the other companies that are just like yours. What do you do? Ed Perry comments on how to garner more word-of-mouth marketing.
Sunday morning I sat in The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on South Lamar in Austin, Texas while visiting with someone who was sitting in The [...]
Posted in Business Inspiration, News on Jun 23rd, 2009
As protests continue in Iran, the news is filled with stories of innovators rising to meet the challenges created by the media crackdowns. They’ve used Twitter to confound censors, engineered ways around blocked websites, and found ways to increase internet access. With 70% of Iran’s population under the age of 30, and a very tech-savvy [...]
Posted in News on Jun 19th, 2009
Entrepreneurs take note — here are some of the week’s top stories pertaining to entrepreneurship.
The myth of the 20-something entrepreneur is just that, a myth, according to a new study. In reality, the people with the most entrepreneurial activity are between the ages of 55 and 64. The 20-34 age bracket, those people we normally identify as [...]
Posted in News on Jun 12th, 2009
Too busy being an entrepreneur to read the news? Catch up on this week’s salient stories here.
Small business owners are split on healthcare reform. Organizations like the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), which has 16 million members, want to minimize the government’s role in insurance and care, while organizations like the Small Business [...]