Why You Should Be An Entrepreneur In College

If your profession could be given a risk factor, ‘entrepreneurs‘ would probably fall on the high end of the chart. Because of the ‘risk’ involved in starting your own business with little guarantee of success, entrepreneurs risk all to gain all. With that said, college is one of the best times to start pursuing your [...]

How an Economics Major is Leading Innovation in the Music Industry

Photo: Kristen Bartlett/The University of Florida Are your parents pushing you to be a Doctor, Lawyer, Economist or some other bull that you could care less about? There is hope for you This was the founder of Grooveshark.com, an amazing way to listen to your favorite music online.  With 1.5 million registered users we’re talking remarkable growth–like 20%–last [...]

“NetCRED”….. How Much BLING Do You REALLY Have?

Did you know that spammers are the real pioneers of social media?  I am serious – they really are. They were here way before all of our favorite social media platforms!  These “spammers” build huge connection lists and then send out their “status updates.” Today, I received 89 emails from “fling,” “free-viagra-before-buying,” [...]

Four Things to Ask yourself As a Starting Entrepreneur

Before you set out on your exciting journey to be an entrepreneur, here are some questions you should ask yourself. They are not meant to rain on your parade but rather a more realistic look into your mind to make sure your heading in the right direction and are doing what you should be [...]

Choosing Your Bootstrap Staff

When I founded CyberSynchs in June 2008, I was challenging myself to move in a new direction.  I was a recording artist with a valuable tech idea and I needed to assemble a team of professionals to craft that idea into a reality. One of my first tasks was to sit down [...]

Josh Shipp Used to Get Kicked out of Class for Talking: Now he Gets Paid to Talk

U30: You’ve appeared on TRL, FoxNews, Comedy Central and Cosmo Girl.  How’d you score the press? I started all this as a professional speaker- going around to high schools and colleges and speaking to large audiences. But that doesn’t translate to media. A speech is one person to five hundred.  Media is one person to [...]

The Leap – Three Simple Steps to Unlocking Your Greatest Potential

Do you ever find yourself asking, “Is this it?”  Sure, you’ve had some early successes in your career, made some money, received a promotion or two. Yet you can’t help but wonder, Is this what I am supposed to be doing with my life?  Is this the limit of my contribution? These questions [...]

Making Lifestyle Design into a Business

By Christine Eisner of LifestyleDesign.org For me, the joy of entrepreneurship comes from having the freedom to channel my time and energy into something that I am passionate about.  Yes, it suits my schedule (I get to work as late as I want!), but most importantly, I am pursuing my vision. Entrepreneurship is not necessarily the [...]

Coming out of the Recession — Creating an Opportunity Mindset

By Joe Calloway, Author of Becoming a Category of One: How Extraordinary Companies Transcend Commodity and Defy Comparison Hopefully you didn’t miss it. It’s dominated the news for a year. It’s been described as difficult, daunting, and even devastating. People have referred to it as a meltdown and a disaster. It’s the recession. But no crisis [...]

Gen Y “The Lost Generation”

BusinessWeek’s cover story “The Lost Generation” frames Gen Y as a pathetic generation surrendering to our circumstances. Yes, the economy is piss poor, but is it true that “young people can’t even grab on to the first rung of the career ladder?” Millennials are not helpless and are certainly not entitled. This may be [...]