Archive for the 'Entrepreneurship' Tag
The Entepreneurial Dream: Working Hard or Hardly Working?
Business Insider: But are young people interested in starting their businesses for the right reasons—or the wrong ones? A new study by Harris Interactive for ASQ (PDF), which polled teens about their attitudes toward careers and study, paints a worrisome picture. The teens, ranging from 6th to 12th graders, believed studying science, technology, engineering and [...]
Entrepreneurship: It’s Not About the Cupcakes
This graphic was inspired by this quote from Jeanette Mulvey, managing editor of BusinessNewsDaily: Being an entrepreneur is almost never about the business you’re in. So, you like cupcakes. Great. That doesn’t necessarily mean you should open a bakery – unless you like working early in the morning, managing lots of people and figuring out [...]
The following is a guest post by Cristian Dorobantescu of the Small Business Entrepreneur Blog from Romania. Every couple of weeks I see lists of “entrepreneurship myths” – it seems like it’s a never ending story – some are fueling them and the others are debunking them. There is one myth in particular that really [...]
The Bad Economy is Creating More Entrepreneurs
Duane Zobrist writing for Fast Company: The struggling economy has turned up the volume of the voice inside the heads of potential business owners that says, “What do I have to lose?” The excuse of job security given by employees as the reason they never started a business has been disproved by the current recession. [...]
What Makes A Mormon Entrepreneur?
Deseret News: Take two cups of creativity, add a cup of practical thinking and season the mix with market savvy. That’s the recipe for making a Mormon entrepreneur. In recent years, clever Mormon “marketeers” have pitched everything from having your family history printed on a set of brass plates (complete with rings) to action figures [...]
