E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

I just enjoyed the previlage of watching The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. The story is awesome, the delivery is superb, but most of all it teaches us the value of a good head fake: when we are directing someone to do something that they may think is fun not because of the intrinsic value [...]

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StartupAccelerator, an initiative of BizStarts, Bucketworks and CATI, to bring together people interested in starting and operating businesses in an informal, self organizing fashion is bearing fruit. With close to a 100 people in attendance, during this day long event, the participants developed their own agenda, desided on the meetings of interest to them, picked [...]

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Have you ever experienced a self organizing environment where a group of people could in very short time decide what they wanted to learn, who should teach it and how to go about the whole process? If not, I strongly encourage you to be a part of StartupAccelerator, BarCamp or any such event.
Not only will [...]

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For a while now, I’ve been wanting to either get involved or start a credit union that focuses on financing people seeking to start small businesses. I have to admit, Muhammad Yunus has been part of my influence, though there has been others. It has always made me wonder, why after the many years of the [...]

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Best use of time and money is typically to figure out the best way to use the rest of the time and money. This is a concept that I learned from Doug Hubbard a while ago, but am just now starting to really internalize.  How much time on your schedule is dedicated to allocation of [...]

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