Archive for May 24th, 2005
The Difference Between a Real Entrepreneur and a Good Professional
CDRob: “Well, the businessman is a person who ‘smells’ a good opportunity and tries to take advantages of his skills to cash it. The highly trained professional is exactly the opposite: he is very good at his day by day job (could be a programmer, a lawyer or anything else) and his 9 to [5] [...]
Entrepreneur: Playing games is an important part of every childhood–but for sisters Callie and Pam Weiant, the homemade game their mother created for them as children inspired them to become entrepreneurs. The game had been popular in the Weiant family for years, and the sisters always thought it would make a great keepsake for other [...]
Business Week: ‘This is a career you prepare yourself in a rigorous way for,’ Spinelli says. As much as learning actual business skills, he says the real value of organizations like NFTE is helping students ‘see the world as a set of opportunities, rather than a series of obstacles.’ Barnabas Shakur, founder of New York-based [...]
