[quote style=”boxed”]I’m interested in ‘unplanning;’ ditching a planned strategic approach and embracing experimentation, discovery and curiosity to develop your idea, career or business. That and thinking plural, not being restricted by embracing one talent or skill but being multi-dimensional.[/quote] Ian Sanders is a writer and marketing expert who helps businesses…
[quote style=”boxed”]Start with the end in mind. I proselytize that once you know where you are going and who you want to be, then you can work backwards to develop the action steps and behaviors necessary to close the gap between the two.[/quote] Alexia Vernon is a certified coach, speaker,…
[quote style=”boxed”]Talk to people about your product or service. I’m not talking about the elevator pitch as much as about getting real customer feedback. Figure out what works, what doesn’t work and iterate. It’s easy as an entrepreneur to protect your idea from others, however your idea is merely an idea…
Meet Brenton Gieser – Co-Founder of JoynIn and Be Social Change
[quote style=”boxed”]I try to think about who are the end users, how would they like to use what I build and why will they use it in the first place. It helps me focus before I start to code. Once I write my code, I use a quick prototyping approach…
Meet Anirban Banerjee – Co-Founder and Technical Lead at StopTheHacker
[quote style=”boxed”]Plan. Plan. Plan. Don’t jump into anything without knowing as much as possible about what you are getting into and what you hope to achieve.[/quote] Greg Bier is an associate teaching professor and the director of the University of Missouri’s Entrepreneurship Alliance. The Entrepreneurship Alliance is one of many…
Meet Greg Bier – Director of the University of Missouri’s Entrepreneurship Alliance
[box type=”note” border=”full” icon=”none”]Today’s guest post is brought to you by Anna and Ken Boynton of Message Glue are communications consultants who create content, produce creative and coach human executives to be better presenters.[/box] Both of us at Message Glue have theatre backgrounds, and we use them in our creative strategies as…
Meet The Secret Ingredient In Great Presentations – Commitment
[quote style=”boxed”]With an enormous canvas. I’m a visual thinker, so most of the things we discuss start on a whiteboard, a big table or an enormous sheet of paper.[/quote] Steve Davis is the COO & co-founder of CruiseWise, the web’s most advanced source of cruise knowledge. Cruises are America’s last…
A couple of weeks ago I announced our road trip to help ignite and promote entrepreneurial communities across America. A four-month, 48-state journey that I was hoping to not do alone. That being said, when I pressed “publish,” there was still this fear that I might. And then the emails…
[quote style=”boxed”]A lesson I learned from the Mario brothers: collect as many coins as you can as you head toward the finish line. Any stray knowledge or resources you can absorb as you address a challenge will only help you in the long run.[/quote] Zach Haller is the founder and…
[quote style=”boxed”]Create a vision people can believe in, inspire them to achieve more than what they believed possible, and lead from the front and not from the corner office.[/quote] Kevin O’Connor is the CEO of FindTheBest, an unbiased data driven comparison engine, which he established in Santa Barbara, California in…