Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas.If your ideas are any good, you’ll have toram them down people’s throats. – Howard Aiken I once came up with 21 ideas on how a restaurant on campus could improve their business, bring more people in, make them stay, buy more food. I visited maybe three times before […]
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I spent weeks of intense work on EverCreed. It’s a question-and-answer website for Christians. Quora? Stack Exchange? Yes… okay, no. This one’s focused on Christian-centric issues only. Everything from doctrine to the deliberations of daily living. Will it matter to Christians? In Nigeria and beyond? Maybe. Well, I hope so. The dream is to launch
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News: Microsoft acquires Linkedin for $26 billion. Microsoft just landed an ace. Linkedin is not just a social network for pros, it is a massive, crowdsourced HR consultancy (probably the biggest in the world). And more, it has grown into a digital media firm: the most influential business leaders publish well-received content in the space. Microsoft
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I finally get it. Uber. I had a great experience yesterday when I used the service for the very first time. Simple app user interface; a very professional, courteous driver. Uber invites, verifies, and signs up private car owners as drivers on its software platform. You install the app on your device, register, and tell
Familiar story: new fast-food biz wants to draw customers to its outlet, considers the most useful baits, launches a banner declaring FREE WI-FI—> an appeal to teenagers, young adults, young professionals. Seems like a good, easy marketing strategy a la Starbucks. To the new biz: Some will come, the notorious freebie seekers. They will make
You don’t get grades for resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. You just get successful. Yet another entrepreneurship..erm..Commencement speech from Steve Blank, adorable, white-haired Steve, someone I never heard of until recently. Know the Lean Launchpad? Check out the Udacity course How to Build A Startup at Udacity.
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