We are too up tight, living in a time of professional and political correctness that is dulling our ability to enjoy our lives while at work—where many of us spend nearly one third of our adult lives and entrepreneurs even more.
In the complicated path from idea to startup, there often come times when a larger-than-normal hurdles get in the way, and the only true way to conquer them is use brute force.
Clean energy entrepreneur and author unravels how entrepreneurs can take simple and accessible solutions Steve Jobs employed at Apple and apply them to new markets.
Wana Energy Solutions is moving Ugandans away from charcoal and wood to liquid gas, which requires less time, costs less money, and sharply reduces indoor air pollution and all of the attendant health risks.
Agile and Holacracy are so superior to our traditional methodologies for running businesses and communities and for creating anything new, they should be adopted everywhere immediately.
Fifty percent of people who start an exercise program drop out by six weeks. Yet six weeks is just about the time we start seeing positive results of new behaviors. Stick with it, and those behaviors become part of who you are. So how do you get over that hump? Plan to fail.
Today’s workers see personal and professional development as part of their compensation from the company, regardless of how quickly they decide to leave. You might not like that, but you can’t change it. So your best approach is to plan for it.
Burnout can destroy the best of ideas and intentions. While an idea can, in theory, be limitless, the brain is a physical organ with limitations. If these limitations aren’t acknowledged the consequences can be grave. Don't let burnout destroy your idea.
Spending hours on phone calls, emails, and meetings is a great start to solving the world's big problems, but it is equally important to be humbled by nature because it will make you a better social innovator (and a better human).
Emails are how we communicate with each other in this day and age. Writing them well can be the difference between successfully building a relationship and not. This post includes example emails for how to get meetings, ask for introductions to investors, say no gracefully, and more!
If you’re a start up and you don’t have a real, working application to help your employees nurture health first; before bringing clean water to a village, before providing food for the hungry, then you’re doing something wrong.
Looking for ways to cut costs when financing deals, open up transparency and increase fairness in the market? Open sourced term sheets are one way to achieve all of these things.
There's a lot to be learned from those who’ve been there, done it, and know what works. Read this post for 5 key learnings gathered from the most effective social entrepreneurs across the country.
Many social entrepreneurs have an ambivalent attitude towards marketing. They may think that marketing is all about deceptive advertising, but marketing doesn’t have to be sleazy. In fact, developing the marketing mindset will help you and your customers.
Of all the advice available to us on wellbeing – what to eat, how to manage stress, how much exercise we need, what we should get from relationships, the idea that we can create our way to being well sounds too simple.
When an impact investment extraordinaire studies 200 organizations, 25 countries, and 35 founders...you may not expect him to site HR problems as one of the largest barriers to achieving start-up success. Read more here.