My 7 Ways of Having an “EPIC” Entrepreneurial Mindset. Fuck the intro, let’s dive straight into it.
Entrepreneurship is about taking MASSIVE action anyways: 1) Fall in delusional love with yourself. Although I don’t give a crap about the bible, there’s one sentence that actually makes sense: Love your neighbor as thyself. YOU first, and THEN them. You can not help/love ANYONE else if you don’t fully appreciate YOURSELF. 3 Ways to Supercharge Fan Engagement on Facebook. This article was first posted on Entrepreneur.com.
For most business owners, their biggest Facebook challenge is keeping fans consistently engaged. Whether you have 135 or 13,500 likes, the only way to really profit from a business page is to motivate fans to click, share and, eventually, act by buying a product or signing up for an event. Unfortunately, persistently low engagement is a catch-22. Your brand page’s EdgeRank score — Facebook’s algorithm for determining how content is featured in the News Feed — is determined largely by user interactions. 100 People You Should Subscribe To On Facebook. Over the last few months, Facebook’s subscribe feature has taken a life of its own.
While Twitter is snappy, Facebook allows everyone to articulate and develop their ideas and views, something that isn’t always possible when you’re working with 140 characters. Manage Creativity in Your Company by Dedicating Time. Like most businesses, 37signals has more ideas than it has time to develop them.
Even at a workplace as unstructured as ours, the usual concerns simply make it impossible to follow through on every promising notion. What if it didn't have to be that way? What if everyone was given a stretch of free time to work on whatever he or she wanted? What kinds of ideas would bubble up? In June, we decided to find out. Most people spent the first few days of June acclimating to the reality that they were on their own. Pitch Day was July 11. Mig, a designer, and Jeff, a programmer, went next. Ryan, a designer and product manager, presented a data-visualization technique that we can use to better understand how customers use our products. 25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer.
When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied, “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult.
Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.” Today, writing well is more important than ever. Lazy-Healthy Breakfast (with video) My diet is boring.
I pretty much eat the same thing every single day during the week, and let myself be flexible on the weekends for meals out… and frozen yogurt. The reason I keep it so boring is because I’ve finally found a clean way to eat that makes me feel awesome, and doesn’t taste like cardboard! I’m a creature of routine when it comes to food: I look forward to my same ol’ breakfast every morning and find myself craving the turkey meatballs my fiancé makes so well every single week.
Free Webinar: How to Achieve Ultimate Productivity as a Solopreneur. 7 Must-Read Books on Education. Education is something we’re deeply passionate about, but the fact remains that today’s dominant formal education model is a broken system based on antiquated paradigms.
While much has been said and written about education reform over the past couple of years, the issue and the public discourse around it are hardly new phenomena. Today, we round up the most compelling and visionary reading on reinventing education from the past century. Earlier this year, we featured a fantastic Bill Moyers archival interview with Isaac Asimov, in which the iconic author and futurist echoes some of own beliefs in the power of curiosity-driven, self-directed learning and the need to implement creativity in education from the onset.
7 Must-Read Books on Education. Columbia University Launches Entrepreneurship Lab. Graduates of Columbia University's MBA program have a whole new reason to love their alma mater.
Wednesday evening marked the official launch of the Columbia Business Lab, a free (yes, free) co-working space and post-graduate entrepreneurship program for Columbia Business School graduates in downtown Manhattan. The school's Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship will manage the program and provide advisory services to the 21 businesses in the lab's inaugural class.
According to Professor Murray Low, director of the Lang Center, the opening of the lab was a student-driven initiative. "We've always wanted to have an incubator space where the students could have a soft landing and affordable office space," Low says. "But it was the students who really took it upon themselves to find us the space and pull this thing together. " 7 Ways to Write Epic Shit. Article by ThinkTraffic contributor Gregory Ciotti of Sparring Mind.
Alright, hands up: how many of you fantasize about writing some epic shit that really leaves an impact online? Let’s see, that’s… one… two… oh yeah, every damn one of you.