‘Entrepreneur’ as ‘UnderTaker’: Cultural definitions
By Have you ever wondered why we use the French word entrepreneur instead of proper English cultural definition of entrepreneur? What is the cultural definition of entrepreneurship? The word entrepreneur is derived from the French entreprendre, meaning ‘to take in between’, or ‘to undertake’. English doesn’t really have its own word Continue Reading
Design Thinking for Suicide Prevention
By 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 Continue Reading
Finding Your Own Personal Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
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 Continue Reading
‘Be famous for just one thing’: Paul Cave’s pursuit of opportunity and Sydney’s BridgeClimb
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 Using creative thought and determination, Paul Cave, founder and chairman of BridgeClimb, Continue Reading
Top twenty positioning strategies as a social entrepreneur
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 Continue Reading
