January 22, 2015
Entrepreneurship
Intrepid Creative Entrepreneurs: This blog is for you. I mean that to sound like a toast. The kind of toast you give at a wedding where you finally get to stand up and say all the things you have wanted to say to someone you love, but you have 60 seconds so you pour everything into the tone and emotion of what you are saying, …
If you read this blog you know that I helped found Creative Startups, a startup accelerator designed for creatives. I don’t have loads of experience launching accelerators, heck I don’t even know very much about them compared to, say, David Cohen, or Dave McClure. So, the reflections I’m sharing here are based on relatively little experience. But, to be fair to myself, I do make …
January 20, 2015
Entrepreneurship
A week or so ago I spoke to a group of 22 Post-Doc EPSCoR students who were selected on a competitive basis to take part in a week-long workshop that aimed to prepare them for their next step as career academicians. Or not. The discussion I led was intended to be something of an invitation to these STEM researchers to consider entrepreneurship as a viable …
January 19, 2015
Entrepreneurship
3 reasons why creative entrepreneurs own the future. 1.) Entrepreneurs Get More Done with Less. And, usually, a *lot* more, with much less. More what? More innovation, more efficiency, more customer delight. More CHANGE. Less what? Rules, norms, money, supporters, staff, time…you get the idea. Creative entrepreneurs in all fields – music, education, design, film, digital tech, biosciences — must be scrappy to succeed. Why? …
