Archive for the ‘Entrepreneur’ Category

Great short video from Derek Sivers. Founder of CD Baby, TED speaker, writer, and all around nice guy, Derek talks about  Uncommon Sense. Entrepreneurs and business owners take note. This is 1 of 8 video you can watch the rest here.

How do you startup a successful dating site, consultancy, blog and create a series of children’s books? Impossible right?  I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Howard Kington from startupremarkable.com In this interview I discuss what it takes to have a portfolio career and how to act on your entrepreneurial impulses as well as sharing [...]

This is a guest post from Daniela Baker. Today’s entrepreneurs need the flexibility to work from any location – whether it is the office, at home, on the road or in a café. This goal can easily be accomplished thanks to the constant evolution of technology. However, as technology continues to improve and evolve, it can [...]

At thinkbigbebig Entrepreneurs we’re always on the look out for inspiring people who have a great story to share. Whilst searching we got introduced to AJ who is the founder of the Ultimate Man Conference who describes himself as “A former shy-guy, who transformed himself from an average ‘wall flower’ who spent countless hours in [...]

I recently met with cardboard entrepreneur Dionne Antrobus to talk about her business which is a unique supplier of adult pinatas and find out what it takes to be a success. 1. Age: 29 2. Business: Card-Bored Box Ltd 3. Type of business: Online adult pinata party shop for adult parties.   Ideal for a hen [...]

Interesting presentation from @naval about the Anatomy of an (un)fundable startup. Naval breaks down the 5 main qualities of an ‘exceptional startup,’ in the following order: 1. Traction 2. Team 3. Product 4. Social Proof 5. Pitch/Presentation Way the video below. Via @ssethi 7th Founder Showcase – Naval Ravikant Keynote from Founder Showcase on Vimeo.

Despite its 140 limit on characters on twitter, a website from the University of Trento lets users explore the Twitterverse, using only the humble tweet as a signifier of gender differences. On Tweetolife, users can enter a series of words, upon which the website will return the number of times male tweeters use the word in [...]

Riva’s Iseo is their new 27 footer that blends old world craftsmanship with the clean, immaculate lines of modern design. In a nod to its heritage, Riva enveloped the boat in mahogany wood then completed the look with stunning twenty coat varnish. As for power the boat will be available in three engine options with [...]

Great short video presentation from Tom Kelley presenting at the Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner back in 2008. In it he talks about having met Francis Ford Coppola who told him  ”Do what you love. You’ll be better at it.” I couldn’t agree more. Watch it now.

It’s now april. The first 3 months of the year are now over. So what have you achieved? Check out this brief video below that will hopefully give you a kick start to get you back on track.

Looking for a great motivation kick start to your day. Then look no further. Check out the inspirational recent TEDxCorcordia talk by Tara Hunt.  Hunt (@missrogue on Twitter) is the co-founder of the shopping data startup Shwowp, and in her TED talk, she talks about some of the struggles necessary in building a company, in convincing others of its [...]

Worth a read. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s 2010 Global Report. The GEM 2010 Global Report was published on Thursday 20th January 2011 View more documents from Timothy Bosworth.

A rare note of caution coming from UK businesses, in reference to BRIC economies. The business advisory firm, Deloitte, has released its annual entrepreneurship report.  It surveys about 350 entrepreneurs across the United Kingdom, and finds that the UK, Western Europe, and North America remain the preferred markets for growth. Surprisingly, there’s an abundance of caution [...]