Most entrepreneurs end up enduring the “Wizard of Oz Syndrome” dozens of times before they develop their own sense of wisdom – or cynicism born from experience. The Wizard of Oz Syndrome goes something like this: Entrepreneur is standing before Big Influential Investor or fill-in-the-blank [Big Influential Customer, Big Potential Partner, or Big
Last week I published an article, written with Crowdfund Insider director and editor Charles Luzar on the subject of fraud in crowdfunding: Crowdfunding Fraud: How Big is the Threat? We researched and gathered data from hundreds of crowdfunding campaigns to get a sense of the scope of fraud and potential
Ever since college dropouts Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started their trillion dollar legendary ventures, universities and colleges have strived to teach entrepreneurship – trying to capture this lightning in a bottle. During the past 25 years, nearly every one of 7,000 or so U.S. colleges
Samsung had their very first Global Developers Conference last Monday and Tuesday. It’s about time. Apple has their legendary and mythical WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC) where every year Steve Jobs would change the course of the earth’s rotation along with our future. Samsung is beating Apple in the smartphone market
From @cjcornell – http://metapreneurship.net
Entrepreneurship can be rewarding, and even glamorous at times. And of course most will tell you that it is hard work being an entrepreneur, and that the risks can be difficult to bear. Perhaps this is why entrepreneurship seems like the purview of the prototypical young 20-somethings, fresh out
A classic song by the band “Rush” once proclaimed that being a rock star was “The Universal Dream.” In the 60’s and 70’s this was probably true. But today, all over the world, there are more teenagers who would rather be Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs than they would Bono
Michael Jordan didn’t become the greatest basketball player of all time merely by reading books about the sport. While studying hard can make you an expert in physics, chemistry and even in medicine or law, entrepreneurship is more like training to be an athlete or astronaut. No entrepreneur ever became
Entrepreneurship is a peculiar field. It’s unlike any other profession – accounting, engineering, sales, construction or even politics. When you say “I’m an accountant” people have a pretty good idea of what you do. The “what” is often the subject you study in school, or later become an ‘domain expert’