The heart of entrepreneurship is problem-solving. Most successful entrepreneurs in history and to date saw a need in the market and met that need. They see gaps in the supply chain and are quick to fill them, making a profit by ensuring customer satisfaction. Many founding companies today find themselves
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K2BW Home Buying 101 Graduates show what creating family wealth looks like
Take a look at the Seattle Times article about Deirdre and Skyler Calhoun’s journey to through 1st time home ownership. Article written by Heidi Groover with photo by Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times
Adapting in an Uncertain World, Eight Life Lessons From Unlikely Entrepreneurs – Gary Schoeniger
ELI’s Founder and CEO, Gary Schoeniger joined International Strategic Management’s (ISM Inc) Faris Alami for a discussion around life lessons from unlikely entrepreneurs, and how these lessons apply to our uncertain times. Enjoy!
Carol Dweck – The Power of Believing You Can Improve
Carol Dweck researches “growth mindset” — the idea that we can grow our brain’s capacity to learn and to solve problems. In this talk, she describes two ways to think about a problem that’s slightly too hard for you to solve. Are you not smart enough to solve it …
Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don’t – Malcom Gladwell *Video*
Outliers is a book about success. It starts with a very simple question: what is the difference between those who do something special with their lives and everyone else? In Outliers we’re going to visit a genius who lives on a horse farm in Northern Missouri. We’re going to examine
How you can apply a Growth Mindset at home, at school and in your career – Dr. Carol S. Dweck *Video*
“You’re so talented!”, “You are gifted – a natural!”, “You’re doing so well in school, you must be really smart!” – children receive these messages (or their negative counterparts), along with many other messages on a daily basis from their peers, parents and teachers. Are these just words or do
COVID-19, Small Business Owners, and Racial Inequality by Robert Fairlie
The widespread closing of businesses in the United States and around the world due to the coronavirus has been unprecedented. Stores, factories, and many other businesses have closed as a result of policy mandates, downward demand shifts, health concerns, or other factors. Although many have reopened since social distancing restrictions
Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs: Unlocking Entrepreneurial Capabilities to Meet the Global Challenges of the 21st Century (World Economic Forum PDF)
The World Economic Forum’s Global Education Initiative (GEI) report, Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs provides specific recommendations for the academic, public, private and non-profit sectors to collaborate in supporting the development of entrepreneurship ecosystems, in which education is a key driver. The report highlights the importance of entrepreneurship education
The fundamental aspects of an entrepreneurial mindset for workforce.
A mindset, can be simply described as the inclination one has and their attitudes towards their interpretation of situations and circumstances according to their beliefs and thoughts. An entrepreneurial mindset, is a specific set of beliefs and thoughts, mainly inclined towards how an entrepreneur would interpret situations and events around
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