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If I was part of a major criminal cartel and making tons of cash, I might have a hard time giving that up to silkscreen. Or to bake. Well, no I love baking, if someone paid me to bake I’d be there in heartbeat……..
A recent article, in the Economist, compared London and Paris on a variety of fronts. What struck me as the most interesting was the comparison made between the two countries regarding their societal focuses. Paris, it seems, is focused on preserving the past and does so through the restoration of old buildings, preservation of artifacts, etc. London, on the other hand, was shown as a society who is innovative because the article argued there was less to preserve- no gastronomic tradition, per se, no noteworthy skyline, etc. The article then raised a question that I wish to take up in further detail: “How can you create a desire to innovate when the ambient culture is oriented towards preservation?”
Description: Launching a start-up is not a rational act. And Vinod Khosla, a partner in Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and former Sun Microsystems CEO, believes that success only comes from those who are foolish enough to think unreasonably. Entrepreneurs need to stretch themselves beyond convention and constraint to reach something extraordinary.
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“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.
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
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
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.
When I think angels- I see wings and halos. Fault me if you wish, but I was raised in small
