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The TikTok Test

No Pain No Problem — Products Providing Passion & Pleasure What’s your problem? “What’s the big problem you are solving?” It’s probably the most predictable question thrown at entrepreneurs during an investor pitch — repeated so often that it becomes comical and trite. Inevitably, some armchair entrepreneurship expert — posing as an investor, or a mentor

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Humor

Finally Getting Klout

I finally get Klout. No, I never had much clout in any kind of situation, but I finally understand the concept of “Klout” – the social influence metric. Klout is like a credit score for social networking influence, calculating and assigning a number that depicts a person’s relative influence (clout) in

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Marketing

Entrepreneurial Writer’s Marketing

There’s an age-old and ongoing debate about whether entrepreneurship can be taught or if it’s something that people are born with. Having both been a serial entrepreneur, and a mentor and educator in entrepreneurship, I must admit that I go back and forth on this issue often. As a mentor

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Killed by tech

Even if you are under 30 or even under 25, most of us don’t realize for forget how much technology has changed our lives and society in such an incredibly short time. This video really makes the point with some familiar examples: Killed by Tech via @equalman – YouTube

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Insight by a Coffee Shop

I am pretty sure the business owner drew the window artwork out of more of a sense of cynicism and frustration than out of any kind of genius marketing insight. But that one sentence is worth a week of discussion in my entrepreneurship class. Those few words embody the concepts

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