Category Archives: Pathways

bootstrapping, start-up, micro-entrepreneur, franchise, public sector entrepreneurship, social venturing, trans-generational entrepreneurship

Design Thinking for Suicide Prevention

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Howard Frederick writes: If design thinking is so human-centred, why not start with the most important thing:  your life. Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us that we would like to live. Between the two stands resistance. This is where suicide prevention comes in.  How to get from one to the other? ‘We are all capable of reinvention’, according to Bernard Roth, one of the founders of Stanford’s d.school and author of the book The Achievement Habit.  Here is a fascinating article about using design thinking in the ‘wickedest problem’ of all.  Design thinking (and suicide prevention) start with re-framing how you view yourself in the world.… Read the rest

Finding Your Own Personal Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

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What is your personal entrepreneurial ecosystem?  Just as an ecosystem in the physical environment is a balanced, interdependent quasi-stable community of organisms living together, so its industrial analogue is the business ecosystem, which is a ‘balanced, quasi-stable collection of interdependent firms belonging to the same economy’.  We can refer to geographical environments that influence you in supporting your quest for entrepreneurship.. According to Isenberg, entrepreneurs are most successful when they have access to the human, financial and professional resources they need, and operate in an environment in which policies encourage and safeguard entrepreneurs. This network is described as the ‘entrepreneurship ecosystem’.… Read the rest

‘Be famous for just one thing’: Paul Cave’s pursuit of opportunity and Sydney’s BridgeClimb

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 It’s just like famous Harvard entrepreneurship professor Howard Stevenson once said, ‘Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled’.[i]

Our job is to enable our customers to make heroes of themselves — Paul Cave

BridgeClimb Sydney founder Paul Cave at opening of company’s new headquarters.

Using creative thought and determination, Paul Cave, founder and chairman of BridgeClimb, has created a $50 million business in just a few years, effectively monopolising an internationally famous Australian icon brand he doesn’t own, capitalising on huge advertising he doesn’t pay for, and sending a personally delivered word-of-mouth recommendation through one million customer heroes to arguably 100 million prospects around the world.… Read the rest

Top twenty positioning strategies as a social entrepreneur

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Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us that we would like to live. Between the two stands resistance.{1] How to get from one to the other? We are all capable of reinvention’, according to Bernard Roth, author of the book The Achievement Habit.[2] Can you actually take on the ‘wicked problem’ of designing your own life of positioning strategies as a social entrepreneur? Especially if you want to be a global social entrepreneur.  Yes, you can. Here are the top tips in reframing how you view yourself in the world. 

social entrepreneurs in a team

Make sure you have a mentor who is a few steps ahead of you.

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