Thanks for all the “cards and letters” re my prior post!
The Kauffman trip to KC was productive in many respects. Confirmed that there’s serious money out there for entrepreneurial training initiatives, especially broad partnerships, especially for K-12 & community colleges - sustainable entrepreneurship too. Potentially money for Idaho… But there are steps Idaho will [...]
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always show that either the initial collaboration among the key team members happens over coffee, tea or some other adult beverage… and/or that’s where the seminal idea arose. IOW, informal social interaction is critical to growing innovation.
Or…. iow, I’m overdue to harass you folks into an after-work coffee conclave! Yeah, yeah, you want to go [...]
Well, not the “ern” that’s occasionally an entry in crossword puzzles, but ERN as in Entrepreneur Resource Network, a new wrinkle from the good folks at Kickstand.
http://ern.kickstand.org
The ERN is a place for Kickstand members (and others) to share ideas and, more
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Predicting an entrepreneurial community?
Syracuse economist Arthur Brooks is not the most politically correct guy out there - he likes grabbing that “third rail”, LOL.
However, his latest work has some amazing results. No matter how you massage the data, you conclude that charitable giving appears to be a driver of…. income. And it has a lot [...]
“If I can’t understand it, it must be easy!” - Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss
a quickie here… a phenomenon that we might all want to think about…
the really short version:
1) Don’t assume that others know the same things you do. Even when they should.
2) Don’t assume you are an expert, unless you can prove it. (And certainly [...]
I believe the biggest missed opportunity in Boise’s tech history was locating HP and Micron on opposite ends of the valley.
Have you ever been to Palo Alto? All the big tech companies are within a stones throw of each other (if uncle Rico’s throwing) Ever stopped in one of the local pubs after [...]
OK, nobody is responding…. hell, hardly anyone is posting.
So, will you tell me what you want to read?
I just came back from the out-sized Academy of Management meetings in Philly - the “double helix” bridging asset model got blessed by *the* top guy in that arena. Idaho is on the right track!
Lots of interesting tidbits [...]
I know there are a lot of Micron Engineers out there wondering, “What am I going to do?” (I know because I’ve talked to a couple of you already)
In the spirit of economic development, I would like to make an offer to any of you who have a business idea. I will gladly [...]
I’m sitting in a place that is considered rural, in the northern part of the country, in an area making the painful transition from extractive/ag economy to a scary, Brave New World. It does have an intriguing nascent ICT cluster (despite a shortage of programmers). The area is good at creating small businesses but sadly [...]
We know a lot more than many realize about what it takes for an organization to be -and stay- innovative. This something I’ve consulted on for years and studied for even longer. The message hasn’t changed in decades: The heart of the matter is learning to think entrepreneurially and keeping that mindset. It’s not [...]
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