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Short answer: Because unrequited love sucks. If you are like most of us creative entrepreneurs, you probably spend time fantasizing about getting your label taken up by a market leader. Or getting on Target’s shelves. Or being called out at the Oscar’s as “the world’s most brilliant new designer”. Which is ok because it keeps the dream alive!  Fantasies like this give us the push …

We (Creative Startups) are finalists for a 2015 ArtPlace grant in partnership with the Indigenous Design and Planning Institute at UNM.  So, last week the team and I spent a full day in Zuni Pueblo. If you have ever been to Zunilands you know it is nestled amongst pine covered red rock mesas, 120 miles southwest of Albuquerque.  It is the spot where Europeans first …

Vocabulary for Creative Startups (Part 1 of 10) “We needed a vocabulary list.  I didn’t know what you were talking about when you first talked about ‘IPO’s”. Yesterday I published a post on the definition of entrepreneurship.  And the minute I hit “Publish” I recalled the above piece of feedback we got about our accelerator.  Duh.  I should have realized that.  (One of many things …

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 …