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The coffee shop employee didn't know whether an item contained nuts. A completely reasonable thing to not know off the top of your head, but what bothered me was that she didn't try to find out. She …
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The entrepreneurial process starts with a problem. The design process starts with empathy. But neither of those phases are the exciting part. For a student who's never experienced the process of …
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I often teach entrepreneurship as a process of identifying problems, imagining solutions and taking action. In my mind this is essence of all entrepreneurship. But when I prompt students with, "what …
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Until the student feels empowered we're just beating around the bush. What's the point if they know the content if they don't think they can do anything with it? Drawing a parallel, entrepreneurship …
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What if instead of career fairs we had crazy job days? Days where people with bizarre and creative careers can show off what they do. It'd be a time for young people to see the possibilities of what …
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Does anyone read a blog post because it has no typos? No, they read it because it touches them or moves them. I heard Seth Godin make this point on a podcast this morning and it really resonated …