We all know the guy who is living in a fairy tale. He sees life as it should be, unbound by reality, and is often brought back to it. And then we know the girl who brutally honest and realistic. While true, shes doesn’t inspire much. I think between these two is the perfect state for life, and for business.
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Hey business guys ever tried explaining something to an engineer and they just didn’t get it? Or the other way around, you engineers just can’t get something across to a thick headed business guy?
You people who are trying to accomplish something creative, why do artists, musicians, and designers tell you that your not doing it right but when they explain their creative philosophies or rigid structures in which creativity must take place, why does it never make sense?
So I came across this article the other day about General Aviation Entrepreneurship.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/02/08/338060/big-vision-at-small-airfields.html
I may be partial, but this is really exciting stuff, and exactly what we need to see more of!
Persistence. Is it working hard and not giving up? Sure. When you are starting a new venture you must work ridiculously hard and not give up. But many people do this, but aren’t persistent. They lose steam after a while and sell out or shut down. I think the definition of persistent is refusing to lose.
Parkour Generations have announced that they will have a parkour training facility which can be folded up and moved. Full article is here. The really interesting thing here is the little tidbit about it being up for retail soon. This is the first (that I know of) retail parkour structure.
For the longest time I wanted to make a business out of parkour because it combines two of my passions. However, the parkour community is a bit apprehensive to commercialization. I am not against commercialization, but I think there are plenty of people who would take advantage of the parkour community to make a quick buck (WorldWideJam). And I didn’t want to be associated with hose types of people, so I have patiently waited until I had an idea which fit the time for something which would build real value for the parkour community and which I could run profitably.
Hey everyone! After a long Christmas break, I’m back to blogging.
I started blogging about entrepreneurship this past November. I wanted to start in aviation and pakour as well but didn’t want to have them all mixed together. I know many people would like to hear about entrepreneurship but could care less about aviation. I just switched over to Wordpress and divided each into their own categories each with separate RSS feeds. I realized that I want to share with people all my passions, not just one. And as a head’s up, watch out for a video post or two to come, especially in the parkour section. So I hope you like the new site, and enjoy what’s to come!
One of the things which influenced me was Gary Vaynerchuk’s book, Crush It!. If you haven’t read it, check it out, it’s a great read!
Contracts are a pain. They take time to get worked out, you feel like the other person will feel uncomfortable with them, and you feel that if you don’t get a lawyer it might get destroyed. So far, I have learned in two cases how important contracts are, and how you can do them on the cheap.
Last night I had a great evening hanging out with some really cool people. (Robert Dempsey, Greg Rollett, Ryan T. Browne, Nick Pettit, and Jim Hoskins) They are all guys who are into technology and entrepreneurship and it was a great atmosphere. It confimed something that came to me while I was at the Collegiate Entrepreneurship Organization’s National Conference in October. That is that I love being around motivated, exciting, aspiring young entrepreneurs. The feeling of being around these type of people is just awesome. Which made me think, you should choose what you want to do by the people you like to be around.
The Industry Advisory Board for Embry-Riddle’s College of Business was on campus last week. I have written about some other aspects of this but I want to focus on one experience.
I was sitting in on our CEO (Collegiate Entrepreneur’s Organization) advisors entrepreneurship class because some very cool people would be speaking. After, we had a chance to speak with them individually. I drifted into a conversation a group was having with an aviation investor, Oscar Garcia. They had pitched their idea and he was critiquing them on their pitching methods.This is basically what he said:
Today’s technological landscape has made it incredibly easy to connect with thousands of people across the globe quickly and efficiently. It has allowed me to keep in touch with the people I met at the National CEO Conference in Chicago, as well as meet a bunch of new people. This weekend I learned the valuable importance of actually speaking with people.
