par admin | Juin 13, 2014 | Entrepreneurship
Crowdfunding has come a long way since the first crowdfunding projects surfaced a few years ago, with the first Kickstarter project coming online in 2009. The concept of getting the public to fund an idea or product, has been around for a few years now. But there’s...
par admin | Juin 13, 2014 | Entrepreneurship
No, the Internet doesn’t travel through the air. Nor does it live in one big, epic cloud. In fact, chances are it’s traveling under your feet right now. To demonstrate the trajectory of the Internet, Fortune magazine writer Andrew Blum and graphic designer...
par admin | Juin 13, 2014 | Entrepreneurship
There’s a costly misconception hindering innovation. Marketing models hold that strategic reasoning must always precede and inform emotional execution. Before we decide to try an idea, we must first prove its worth by conscious knowledge untainted by feeling. But...
par admin | Juin 13, 2014 | Entrepreneurship
Crowdfunding is great in theory, but messy in reality. Just ask the SEC, which is bogged down in approving the final phase of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, a 2011 law meant to goose the economy by loosening rules for investing and fundraising. While other...
par admin | Juin 13, 2014 | Entrepreneurship
Raising money in whatever way whether through sponsorship, table-top sales, or running a marathon, teaches young people a very valuable lesson – you have to work hard for what you want. But what role does raising money have in raising the aspirations of young people,...
par admin | Juin 13, 2014 | Entrepreneurship
Nail it and scale it. That’s startup-speak for a popular strategy for launching a successful tech company: First build and refine your product, then conquer a test market to demonstrate its viability, and then—and only then—expand into additional markets. Win...