How does one decide to leap and become and entrepreneur?
Well … I’d say there are a few ways to decide;
- you decide …
Students want meaningful and relevant employment.
Start-ups want energetic and enthusiastic employees.
Sign up for SNS-12 is here: www.sns-12.eventbrite.com
This is the premise …
I’ll be speaking toward the end of February on transitioning to entrepreneurship and what to expect. The presentation will be turned into an ~15 part …
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Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and the seasons best for you and yours. Have a healthy and prosperous New Year.
We will be taking a little blogging break here at The Road Less Traveled with posts resuming in the new year.
Cheers,
Ian Graham
How far into the future are your thoughts and ideas projected?
Photo Attribution: “Our last African sunset” Francis Moran
I was chatting with Trefor the other day and he enlightened me on this incredibly simple yet powerful insight on timing a business idea for success. The practice is called “Horizon thinking”. The premise is that for a business idea to be successful it must be within the line of sight of the market. If the idea is outdated it will be behind the market and doomed to extinction. However, if the idea is too far ahead of the market and past the horizon it is also out of sight and the market needs to catch up. The optimal placement of idea is within the view of the market between today and the visible horizon.
Brilliant!
In horizon thinking “timing really is everything”
Ian Graham
Raising a series B round is perhaps the most difficult round to get. Series A sells the idea, Series B sells results and the promise of more growth … often a real challenge. Our intrepid VC is preparing to enter series B surgery and is chatting with Start-up before the operation.
Series B is MAJOR Surgery.
Ian Graham
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First the Oxymoron: If government policy and spending are intended to spur innovation then why is the vast majority of funding used to setting up large bureaucratic organizations to administer “innovation”.
Now the Paradox: The more adamantly an organization professes to be innovative the less likely it is to be so.
That is all.
Ian Graham
