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entrepreneurship Archive
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Buy myself a spaceship
Posted on February 13, 2010 | View CommentsMost of today’s entrepreneurs were once motivated to this ‘free’ lifestyle by negative discontent with their current situation or by a great opportunity or idea. Whatever the motivation, being negative or positive, often it lead to a sprout of great initiatives. KANYE WEST’S Spaceship video... -
WOW: Verterra
Posted on November 26, 2009 | View CommentsI ran into Verterra, a company started by Michael Dwork after he was inspired in a very interesting way: VerTerra was born from the most simple and unexpected encounter. As his car bumped its way down a dirt road in rural India, Michael Dwork saw a... -
Money has to be made, not earned
Posted on October 26, 2009 | View CommentsIt was only this week that I found out about the DSB debacle. “Where have you lived!” a friend asked me. I hardly ever watch television, and I am reading a great book that withdrew my attention from looking through the newspapers. After a quick... -
Donuts past Middle-Clash
Posted on September 13, 2009 | View Comments“The position of starting businessmen, who emerge out of social security, is of great importance to the Dutch economy. Their conflicting situation is illustrating how little thought their struggle really gets.” Frank Kalshove; De Volkskrant, zaterdag 13 juni, Economie [1] The article explains how the... -
A little tale about generators, magnets and coils
Posted on August 12, 2009 | View CommentsThe year is 1831, when Michael Faraday – an English scientist, discovers he can move a needle of a compass if he links it with a magnet and moves a copper coil back and forth just above it. After a public demonstration of this miraculous... -
A note for entrepreneurs
Posted on May 6, 2009 | View CommentsIn general: Facilitation, accessibility and availability are the most essential definitions that enable people to comfortably expand their activities through all scales of appropriation. Making the availability of the activity accessible. In other words if you can’t ‘get there’ the service- or product initiation might... -
Let’s put the fish on the menu
Posted on April 6, 2009 | View CommentsBy: Maureen van Althuis our new contributor. As fish in the ocean, ideas float around us in the open air. Hence, the creation of ideas is not our share. We are not the ones who create ideas, we are the ones who need to catch... -
The Call of the Entrepreneur
Posted on March 1, 2009 | View CommentsThe trailer for a new documentary being released by the Acton Institute that focuses on the stories of three entrepreneurs. A study of the call to create wealth and the benefit of business and free markets to society. Check on www.calloftheentrepreneur.com for information about premieres... -
Creative entrepreneurs survive crisisses
Posted on March 1, 2009 | View CommentsCreative entrepreneurs can weather the current global economic crisis better than traditional businesses. In reality it’s not the creative entrepreneurs but it’s the large companies that are being challenged. Creative companies can survive any condition. Virgin Atlantic, which was founded by British entrepreneur Sir Richard... -
Fashion Entrepeneur: Renzo Rosso (Diesel)
Posted on March 1, 2009 | View CommentsFashion Entrepeneur about his “Joie de Vivre” as an entrepeneur. -
A Great & ‘Social’ Idea
Posted on March 1, 2009 | View CommentsAs we recently witnessed in last couple of years, the majority of new ventures arose in the area of the Internet, the health sector or in the software industry. It would be a misconception to believe these are the only areas where true opportunity exists....