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Challenges Part 1

By Jorge • Oct 29th, 2007 • Category: Business Strategies, Innovation, Inspiration, Strategies, Techniques

This is the first part of a 4 part series of articles regarding challenges.
Imagine 5 brilliant entrepreneurs sitting down to consider new ideas. They can’t get started until someone proposes something. But where does the proposal come from? How do they decide what problem to solve? Who decides the focus? How do they determine the […]



How to stop living in the past and focus in the present.

By Jorge • Oct 4th, 2007 • Category: Business Strategies, Innovation, Strategies

In looking back on unpleasant situations and experiences, the thought occurs to us: if only we had done or said x or y, if only we could do it over. Which is precisely the wrong approach. What makes us go astray is in the first place is that we are unattuned to the present moment, […]



The Secret of Serial Entrepreneurship.

By Jorge • Sep 20th, 2007 • Category: Business Strategies, Inspiration

WSJ’s Raymund Flandez speaks to New York entrepreneur Ari Meisel, 24, who has founded four companies — including three before he was out of high school.

Here’s a great article from the Wall Street Journal about serial entrepreneurs. There are two types of entrepreneurs by nature: entrepreneurs that are founders of one company, and they stay […]



The Myths of Innovation.

By Jorge • Sep 15th, 2007 • Category: Business Strategies, Innovation, Inspiration, Resources

Much of what we know about innovation is wrong. That’s the bet this talk takes, as it romps through the history of innovation, dispelling the mythologies we’ve constructed about how we got here. This talk, will help you to recognize the myths, understand why they’re popular (even if you don’t believe in them), and how […]