“The problem with starting a startup while you’re still in school is that there’s a built-in escape hatch. If you start a startup in the summer between your junior and senior year, it reads to everyone as a summer job. So if it goes nowhere, big deal; you return to school in the fall with all the other seniors; no one regards you as a failure, because your occupation is student, and you didn’t fail at that. Whereas if you start a startup just one year later, after you graduate, as long as you’re not accepted to grad school in the fall the startup reads to everyone as your occupation. You’re now a startup founder, so you have to do well at that.”

-Paul Graham

Thanks to our LinkedIn contact, Chris Carpinello.

Socheata Poeuv starts dialogs between parents and children about their plight during the Cambodian genocide.

Becca Robison started a space camp for girls 4-10 years old.

Divine Bradley opened a community center in his neighborhood.

Michael Gainer is finding artistic and creative ways to reuse building materials.

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I blatantly stole this from another facebook group, after navigating away from our page, but I thought it was fantastic and that you might want to see it. Besides, think Moses got only 10 commandments, needing 15 shows you how difficult the road is.

15 Startup Commandments

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CNN has a cool site titled “Young People Who Rock“. This site interviews young people who…well…err…..rock. Basically it is a mix of people who are doing something outstanding in their field: music, politics, film, etc. Every Friday a new posting is put up on the site and an interview segment occurs at 3pm. Really, its one of the first things I look on Fridays when I come back from lunch.

Find a little inspiration, so you too can….rock

Here’s a little secret: I would love to be a great entrepreneur. I would love to have my own company, dynamically shape new and emerging markets and profit from my innovative nature. However, there is a big difference between people who are entrepreneurs (Bill Gates, Guy Kawasaki, Bakery Owners) and people who would love to be entrepreneurs (me).

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When asked what’s an entrepreneur most people would say a small business owner or a web developer. But entrepreneurship can be found in many different walks of life. Your friend that makes screen print t-shirts is an entrepreneur. Your neighbor that collects honey and sells it at the local grocery store is an enttpreneur. Or even your college friends that started their own band and are touring the country in their parent’s van. Music is becoming a large part of the world of entrepreneurship. From making music, to marketing music, to producing music.

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I was born to be a billionaire entrepreneur. I think. I certainly was born to fly around the world on my own private plane, to swim with sea turtles off my own island, to spend all day shopping at haute couture ateliers.

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Ever feel like you went to school for the wrong thing? I feel this every time someone discusses CleanTech..

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There are so many other people out there blogging about entrepreneurship! Often these blogs are first hand accounts of people’s experience in the entrepreneurial realm. The information they provide is valuable for all of us in that we can learn first hand about what other entrepreneurs are doing. As such, I wanted to highlight one blog that is really doing some amazing work.

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When I think angels- I see wings and halos. Fault me if you wish, but I was raised in small New England town- that’s simply who they were. My impression changed a little after movies like Dogma and City of Angels but still there were wings and they were heavenly. News flash- there is a whole new kind of angel.

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