Archive for January, 2010

The Connecting Thread: The Innovation Landscape

Friday, January 8th, 2010

One of the primary stitches running across my life cloak:
The primary engine driving economic growth is innovation. And we are in the midst of transitioning to a new innovation landscape as corporations are dying and the startup ecosystem matures. The innovation landscape is the overlapping theme for most of what I’m thinking about and working [...]

5 Steps of Entrepreneurial Growth

Friday, January 8th, 2010

I defined 5 steps in the entrepreneurial journey that I think most people go through. The distribution is a pyramid and only a small percentage of people make it through each stage.
(1) No Desire —intrinsic motivation suppressed (usually by the school system) (2) Desire to make an impact and be entrepreneurial, but uncertainty about how [...]

What I’m Working On

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Force For the Future— Force For the Future is a startup for startups working on creating new models and tools to enable entrepreneurs to more easily find what they need, collaborate, and share lessons learned. We’re working on creating a “post-accelerator” for the increasing number founders coming out of startup accelerators. Our pilot project, Founder’s [...]

Gap Year Update

Friday, January 8th, 2010

This fall I was lucky to be one of the 30 residents in the inaugural year of Palomar5. It was by far the most intense experience of my life, triggering a lot of personal and project growth. A lot has changed since, but the dots still make sense looking backward. The last few years I’ve [...]