Archive for the ‘Entrepreneurship’ Category
Religion & Revival for Entrepreneur Instigators: Incubate 2.0 & StartupCause.org
Next week I’m going to be at Incubate 2.0 in Cupertino, CA. Here’s a Prezi about Incubate 2.0
It’s coordinated by StartupCause.org and is being planned during Global Entrepreneurship Week. StartupCause.org is an initiative to bring together the leaders of local initiatives that help entrepreneurs create more and better businesses.
I love entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs. At an early age, I told everyone I wanted to be an inventor. I wanted to be an entrepreneur, just didn’t know the word yet. Now, when people ask, what do you do, I say: “I’m an entrepreneur.” It’s awesome.
I also spend as much time as I can helping other entrepreneurs. No entrepreneur in the
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Birthdays, Aging, and Startups
Tuesday was my 36th birthday. Or as I put it in iCal as a recurring appointment (hey, I’m a forgetful person) a few years back: Greatest Day in the History of the World.
I got thinking that in a lot of ways, birthdays and the process of aging can teach us some things about startups and entrepreneurship. Here’s what I came up with:
– Time
Birthdays mark the passage of time. They signify an annual marker that combined will be your lifespan. Some lives are very long. Jeanne Calment of France (1875–1997) lived to be 122 years old, and had the longest unambiguously documented lifespan (I’m 29.5% there). Some lives are cut short. But every year, without
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Why I don’t give a damn about the news, and why you shouldn’t either
I do not watch, read, follow, or care about “the news”. I’m talking general news. You know, stuff on CNN or KSL 5 (local NBC affiliate).* And I’m not exaggerating. I don’t care about it. Not one little bit. None. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Zero.
Extreme News Delay
I found out about the Haiti earthquake 2 days after it happened. The oil leak in the Gulf? Like over 3 days. Mosque new Ground Zero? Couple days delay. I asked Amy what other major news stories I might have missed, and she said “like the kid that killed Natalie Holloway killed another girl in south america.” I have no idea who Natalie Holloway is, or for that matter, that sadly, she
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Startup Visa
Raise your hand if your life has been improved by an entrepreneur. (everyone’s hands better be up!)
Now raise your hand if that entrepreneur DOES NOT have ties to immigration if you go back 5-6 generations. (pretty much no one’s hand should be up!)
We have a problem in America in that entrepreneurs, smart and motivated entrepreneurs, want to move here and start companies here and solve problems here and CREATE JOBS here, and we can’t get our damn visa program together to faciliate that. So what do they do? Unless they have their own capital (find me an entrepreneur that does), they try to start those companies somewhere else.
The Startup Visa is trying to solve
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Entrepreneurial Energy
Wikipedia defines Energy as:
“In physics, energy (from the Greek – energeia, “activity, operation”, from – energos, “active, working”) is a scalar physical quantity that describes the amount of work that can be performed by a force, an attribute of objects and systems that is subject to a conservation law.”
Over lunch yesterday, I ended up having some discussions about where entrepreneurs get their energy. More on some of my thoughts around this later, and also on things I’m trying to do (like LaunchUp.org) to provide a spark of energy to entrepreneurs here in Utah.
But my main takeaway is this: Entrepreneurial energy is very different than that described by Wikipedia about energy in
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2010 vSpring V|100 Nominations
Just got a notice last week that they were accepting nominations for the v100. I think it’s a great program, kudos to vSpring Capital for putting it on.
It’s a community-nominated and peer-selected organization for entrepreneurs in Utah.
I’ve been selected for the last 3 years running. Having said it’s great, it seems like when I go to the annual event or get the directory, it’s the likely suspects each year. I think that is backed up by that it’s been around for 7 years (100*7=700) however, there are only 260 members to date.
Anyway, like I said, it’s a great program and great idea.
To help it out a bit this year, I purposefully ignored my usual suspects,
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LaunchUp #3
Posted over at www.launchup.org how my accident derailed LaunchUp for a few months.
We’ll be having our 3rd next week. Wednesday November 11th at 6:00 p.m. at Marketsplash/Logoworks in Lindon.
Companies presenting will be MuseBuzz, PageMass, and SocialToo.
Paul Brockbank (LogoWorks CEO) will be handling the entrepreneur amp session.
And we’re serving Pumpkin Pie with Whipping Cream!!
It’s going a great night of great entrepreneurial mojo, you won’t want to miss it! I hope to see you there.
Here are the glorious details: LaunchUp #3
Finally, we are also building a list of those that want to support first-time technology entrepreneurs in Utah. You can join the
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