E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

It seems amazing how often we plunge in to new ventures without having lain any foundations. I am not even talking about research, planning and thought necessary to start building. That too is a common problem, but in the context of very simple businesses, this one can be overcome with the right foundations.
Rather, I am [...]

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In the age of mass production there were colleges and schools and Universities. They fed people data and trained them to conform and regurgitate the right answers.
This simply will not be enough in the world of rapid change that is being brought to us by mass customization technologies. But like during the last transition, educational [...]

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The world is changing ever more rapidly. With 3D Printers and 3D Scanners for under a $1000 available from http://www.makerbot.com/ and MIT open sourcing their entire curriculum at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm there is no denying that the world is changing at an ever increasing pace.
With the ability to ship designs via Internet rather then product via mail [...]

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Lottery is the tax on poverty. However, this is not to say that it is a bad thing. Like many institutions of capitalistic society, it favors the risk averse rational people. It is not only a tax on ignorance, but a tax on unproductive wishful thinking. It indeed taxes things that out to be taxed.
The problem [...]

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This and next week I get to meet with almost a dozen aspiring entrepreneurs to help them refine and polish their business plans for the presentation on the November 19th. And there are some cool businesses in the pipeline. I get excited about the progress many of our students make as they progress through the [...]

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