Guest Post: Idealist vs. Economist – What Sort of Business Man/Woman Are You?
March 26th, 2011
I recently added a couple of podcasts from the iTunes U wondering what kind of information I can expect from educational podcasts. One of them is from the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (Feed Link) and as the name of the Institute may indicate it is about entrepreneurship. I startet listening to the first few episodes which are mostly live recordings from speeches of successful entrepreneurs at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute. I didn’t expect too much of it so I was really surprised how interesting and fascinating these speeches were. (more…)
Have you ever wondered why it was not you who started this new crazy buzz business thing that everybody is talking about? Have you ever used a product and service and thought: why didn’t I come up with this idea? Or even better: I had this idea years ago, why didn’t I start my own company with this back then? I guess most people could quickly come up with one or two reason why it was just not the right time, idea, place, environment, why there was just too little money to pay the bills while setting up the business. I’m personally an expert in ‘finding fatal flaws of business ideas’. To this date I’ve had tons of ideas and every time I got really excited about a particular idea it just took me a few days to find enough reasons to drop this fantastic idea. But I think I have finally found the reason for this: I’m a chicken – and being a chicken in business sucks!