7/23/2010
Survey: Unemployment spurring entrepreneurship - Baltimore Business Journal
The long-term unemployed aren’t just twiddling their thumbs: They’re turning into entrepreneurs.
A survey put out by CareerBuilder.com found out that 26 percent of workers who have been unemployed for six months or longer are considering starting their own business. The survey was conducted by market research firm Harris Interactive and polled about 4,500 people nationally, both employed and unemployed.
Maryland Chamber CEO Kathy Snyder says getting an influx of inquiries from people wanting to start their own business.
The numbers don’t surprise Maryland Chamber of Commerce President Kathleen Snyder, who said she’s been getting frequent phone calls and letters from unemployed people seeking advice on how to run their own shop. The large number of highly educated professionals in Maryland makes the state ripe for entrepreneurship, especially in the tech industry, Snyder said.
William Dunkelberg, chief economist for the National Federation of Independent Businesses, coined the phenomenon a “negative push start.”
That means people who had considered starting a business in the past — but didn’t want to leave stable employment to do so — are “pushed” into start-ups after being laid off, with (hopefully) a severance package in hand for initial capital and not as much to lose.
While the NFIB has not conducted recent formal research on unemployment’s relation to entrepreneurship, in the past NFIB has observed more people indulging their entrepreneurial spirit during times of high unemployment, Dunkelberg said.
The Scouts mean business, so be prepared - Telegraph
A lot of people are like me, or, at least, more like me than like Richard Harpin. It's just that most of them don't realise it. Journalists, for example, would like to think they are enterprising and daring and will toy with the notion of starting a business. You can imagine what we were like during the dotcom boom, when there was all that nonsense about "content being king". One former colleague did hit pay dirt – Nick Denton with his Gawker online media empire. (Did I see the signs? Well, he used to scrounge a lot of cigarettes, in the days when the hub of office social life was still the smoking room.)
Others pursued a similar path. In New York, a Wall Street Journal reporter called Dave Kansas went to work for an internet start-up called TheStreet.com, and a couple of hours later he was worth a million dollars. On paper, obviously. Some were bitter, but I wasn't. He took a risk. I preferred working for an established and respected media outlet. As I said, I'm not entrepreneur material. Then several high-flying journalistic chums, who have gone on to great things, devised a particularly Cunning Plan. They would get private equity backing for a global financial news website. There was a lot of talk about eyeballs and rollover technology and how the internet would turn reporters into stars. And, amazingly, there were potential investors. I dabbled fleetingly with the notion, before starting to worry that it would fail and I would be destitute. Luckily, I was not essential to the business plan.
But the deal was never done. The others discovered that it was surprisingly hard to give up nice, regular jobs in exchange for an equity stake worth, in the short term, nothing. What would swing it, they decided, would be much higher salaries upfront, to compensate for the risk. Not surprisingly, the putative backers evaporated, which is just as well, because not long afterwards the bubble burst and, without a doubt, JournalisticEgos.com would have died a painful death.
So I am delighted that more kids are interested in business these days, thanks to Dragon's Den and entrepreneurship programmes. But I hope they understand that business and entrepreneurship are not synonymous. Entrepreneurs are great on telly, precisely because they are obsessive, driven people. Their efforts are vital to the country's economic recovery, and they deserve every penny they make in return for all those sleepless nights. But there are lots of jobs in business that do not require that peculiar blend of qualities. Next year, how about a badge in book-keeping.
Uplift without the downside
'Inspiring confidence in you," boasts the website of Harley Medical Group, a cosmetic surgery business. But only, it seems, after it has knocked some of it out of you. The company is running a poster campaign on the London underground with the tagline "When a push-up bra just isn't enough." I am already lost in the ugly maze of modern bra technology: as well as the push-up bra, there is now the gel bra and the inflate-a-bra. Now, though, even advanced boob-moulding lingerie will not suffice, apparently. "Don't do it," someone had scrawled under one HMG ad I saw. For a fraction of the price, I suggest a little uplift from Selfridges' lingerie department instead.
BP can't stem the flow of bad news
The oil flow from BP's Gulf of Mexico well may have been stopped, but the negative news flow hasn't. This week, as well as having to contend with the Libyan lobbying issue, BP was forced to admit that it posted a digitally altered image of its damaged well on its website. The latest episode reflects particularly poorly on the company's technical skills, as well as its troubled public relations efforts. It's bad enough that it was deemed acceptable to doctor the photo. But it's even more embarrassing that the execution was so poor. If basic Photoshop skills are a stretch, no wonder the complexities of shutting off a deep-sea well proved so challenging.
BizInABoxx.com – Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship Through Experience | DiscoveringStartups -Tech Startup Reviews
Company Biz in a Boxx http://www.bizinaboxx.com Founded: 11/01/2008 City: Scottsdale, Arizona Country: United States CEO: Melissa Rose Founders: Melissa Rose Category: Other Funding: Seed/Friends & Family Tags: games, business, kids Employees: 2-5 What does Biz in a Boxx do?
Biz in a Boxx provides kids, ages 7 and up, with the practical fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Each kit is age-appropriate and provides information on topics from coming up with an idea to hiring staff, pricing, target markets, marketing and advertising. Within each topic are a series of simple questions that allow kids to create a functional business plan while they formulate their business. It’s easy to do and not weighed down with theories or suggestion that can’t be implemented. There is a free online forum to get additional help. The kids can also create their personal business cards that come with each kit for free on the website.How are they different?
There has never been a product accessible to all kids that easily guides them through starting and running their own business. The few youth entrepreneurship programs out there provide traditional and guided instruction that control creativity and ownership which are the most valued benefits to teaching youth entrepreneurship.With Biz in a Boxx, kids can come up with their own ideas based on their interests and passions and create a business around it easily and all by themselves. Best of all, it’s experiential meaning it’s designed for kids to run their business and make money in the real world.
Why could Biz in a Boxx be BIG?
There are over 50 million kids between the ages of 5 and 18 in the US alone and approximately 80 percent receive no entrepreneurial training before graduating from high school. In order to strengthen our economy and create jobs, it’s imperative to start preparing today’s youth to lead tomorrow’s free enterprise system.How they plan to make money:
Selling the Biz in a Boxx kits, which are extremely affordable.Our thoughts:
No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.bizinaboxx.com
Does Your Social Media Manager Have A Curfew? | The VAR Guy
While I’m really excited to see companies incorporating social media into their channel I see a couple vendors hiring recent college grads and expecting them to take on the “Social Media Strategy.” Gen Yers, also known as Millennials, are bringing some amazing things to the work place with their tactical use of social media. However, I have a few questions about the mind set here…
… They include:
- How well do recent graduates know the channel?
- I don’t like the term social media “strategy,” there are SM tactics you add to your marketing/sales/product strategies.
- Should a 22 year old (unless they are uber intelligent) be building any strategy for a Fortune 500 company?
Cisco released a video of The Most Interesting Member of the Cisco Channels Crew. I love this guy! Smart, funny, and with multiple retweets, shares, and comments it is obvious he did his job well. My guess is he and Cisco Global Channel Chief Keith Goodwin aren’t behind closed doors discussing Cisco’s Global Channel Strategy.
And by the 23 followers he has on twitter and a recent tweet, “Oops…I shouldn’t have drank so much coffee! 0_o” it is obvious that Cisco gets that as well. Tap into Millennials for idea generation and content creation that draws partners and customers in…makes your company see more “human” or humane depending on your current reputation.
Social media is truly something where every single member of your organization needs to be involved.
- Sales should be using LinkedIn to push valuable content to prospects
- Marketing should use platforms to push messaging and create that great content
- Executives should be building their thought leadership platform
- Channels should be using social media to build better relationships with partners and more importantly provide partners with the social media tools they need to reach out to prospects as discussed in my previous post
Having one person own your social media activities no matter what their age? Never a good idea!
Hiring a Millennial to be part of the team and bring fresh creative ideas to the forefront? Awesome.
Contributing blogger Heather K. Margolis, the Channel Maven, has led channel programs for major IT companies. Follow The VAR Guy via RSS; Facebook; Identi.ca; Twitter; and via his Newsletter; Webcasts and Resource Center. Plus, visit www.VARtweet.com.
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Sussing Out Patterns in American History | Miller-McCune Online
CultureJuly 23, 2010
Sussing Out Patterns in American History
If the past is any guide, argues historian Neil Howe, the institution-building Millennial generation will take America to a new era of good feelings.
By Ben PrestonAmerican history has witnessed several major upheavals, and it seems in the midst of another contentious period. Tea Partiers claim irreconcilable differences with liberals and cry for smaller government while their opponents say that social programs must be preserved, creating a political echo of the widening cultural rift. The U.S. military languishes in overseas conflicts many see as less than vital to the nation’s interests. Hamstrung by economic crises, indecisive on environmental concerns and with unprecedented numbers moving into retirement age, American society’s challenges start to seem insurmountable.
But authors William Strauss and Neil Howe in their books Generations (1991) and The Fourth Turning (1997) suggest that throughout the 500-year span of Anglo-American history, a more or less predictable cycle has played out, a cycle in which generational types are in a certain stage of life at any given time.
Howe studies and lectures on these cycles (Strauss died of cancer in 2007) and contends the United States really is in crisis now. He draws parallels between other crises in American history — the Great Depression and World War II, or the Civil War, for example — and notes that the arrangement of generational types forming right now is the same as during those times.
“History shapes generations when they’re young, and as they get older, generations shape history,” he said in a recent interview.
Howe and Strauss described four distinct generational types — heroes, artists, prophets and nomads. With those generations have come a series of what they call turnings — tied to the rising and falling of the generation types — that occur in the time it takes to completely replace the population. (That roughly 80-year period is known as a saeculum, a concept developed by the ancient Etruscans.)
They identified four turnings (which closely follow the classical life cycles of a saeculum): the High (youth), the Awakening (young adulthood), the Unraveling (midlife) and the Crisis (old age).
According to Strauss and Howe’s model, we’re currently in an Unraveling, with the aging prophet Baby Boomers moving into elder mentorship roles, the middle-aged nomad Gen Xers assuming the highest leadership positions, and civic-oriented Millennials coming of age to become the doers and institution-builders of the next High.
To judge their model of making sense out of chaos, it’s necessary to understand the pair’s terms:
Generations
Heroes: Exemplified by World War II’s GI Generation and today’s Millennials. Powerful, outwardly focused, institutionally driven and not given to spirituality. Born as overprotected children during an Unraveling, they are given to cohesive teamwork and trust in authority as they come of age, becoming the organized fighters during a crisis and the builders of institutions afterward. As they age, their conformity and lack of spiritual identity are attacked by the rising prophet generation as the next awakening is realized.Artists: Includes the postwar Silent Generation, and most likely the current generation of children, which some are beginning to label iGeneration. Indecisive, compromising, malleable and subtle, they are the overprotected youth of a crisis, usually reared by hard-bitten nomads eager to provide more structure than was provided by their underprotective prophet parents. Young adults during a High, they become indecisive midlifers during an Awakening, with many adopting the values of the following generation.
Prophets: Made up of Boomers and like generations, such as those that have risen to adulthood during spiritual upheavals from the Puritan Awakening to the cultural shift of the 1960s. Prophets are values-driven, inwardly focused, moralistic and have a tendency early in life to be extremely critical of established institutions. Born during a High, they are indulged as children, become moralistic leaders during an Unraveling and wise mentors during a crisis.
Nomads: Gen X and the post-World War I Lost Generation are the most recent examples. Tough, unwanted, adventurous and cynical of institutions, these are the underprotected children of the prophet generations. Growing up during an Awakening period, they become alienated young adults during an Unraveling and pragmatic midlife leaders during a crisis. In old age, they are often not cared for as well as the elderly of other generations.
Turnings
High: After a major crisis has been resolved, a societal renaissance — such as the postwar boom or the post-Revolutionary War Era of Good Feelings — occurs. The national mood is characterized by confidence and optimism — like during Kennedy’s Camelot years — and conformity and institution-building are paramount. While development of infrastructure is attended to, moral direction languishes, bringing about the next phase. Gender roles are distinct and wars unlikely.Awakening: After prolonged focus on material advancement and outward goals, the next generation seeks meaning during an Awakening. The security and comforts of the High, although taken for granted, are spurned as superfluous. Trust in social collaboration and in institutions is at a low, and risk-prone lifestyles burgeon. The gender gap narrows and wars, if fought, do not generally go well. The cultural upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s is the most obvious example, but the Utopian communes of the 1830s and the Great Awakening of the 1730s are also illustrative.
Unraveling: The moral debates of the Awakening reach fever pitch. Although people have now reconciled meaning and spiritual growth, collaborative effort seems impossible. Moral righteousness abounds and tempers flare — such as during the years leading up to the Civil War or during the Great Depression — directly following a crime and excess-laden boom period as seen during the 1850s, 1920s and 1990s. Howe argues that we are now in an Unraveling, and that although it seems like a new threat the likes of which American has never seen, the cycles of history suggest otherwise.
Crisis: Social, economic and military conflicts that would have been ignored or deferred during previous periods are channeled into one struggle to maintain the integrity of society. The heated debates and extreme challenges leading up to these periods are cast aside as society once again forms into a cohesive, problem-solving unit. Individuality is sacrificed for the good of society, and wars are fought with vigor and purpose. Optimism for a bright future materializes once again. Increased security, public order and reductions in risky personal behavior are the hallmarks of such an era, best characterized in modern times by World War II, but also seen during the Civil and Revolutionary Wars.
While the generation currently coming of age — the Millennials — looks to be the next batch of institution builders, many have expressed doubt that the coddled, video-game-playing youth could be the heroes our society needs. Boomers tend to view the rising group of young adults as materialistic and self-centered, but Howe says that taken in context, this generation is as likely as any of its predecessor hero generations to succeed at overcoming the crisis we face at the end of the current unraveling period — the next fourth turning.
Secular institutions that have been under siege since the beginning of the last Awakening period will be torn down and built from scratch.
Anglo-American History
Here is a look at the generations, crises and awakenings that have occurred in a 500-year span of Anglo-American History:
American Generations (birth years in parentheses)
1. Puritan Generation
(1584-1614), Prophet
2. Cavalier Generation
(1615-1647), Nomad
3. Glorious Generation
(1648-1673), Hero
4. Enlightenment Generation
(1674-1700), Artist
5. Awakening Generation
(1701-1723), Prophet
6. Liberty Generation
(1724-1741), Nomad
7. Republican Generation
(1742-1766), Hero
8. Compromise Generation
(1767-1791), Artist
9. Transcendental Generation
(1792-1821), Prophet
10. Gilded Generation
(1822-1842), Nomad
11. Progressive Generation
(1843-1859), Artist
12. Missionary Generation
(1860-1882), Prophet
13. Lost Generation
(1883-1900), Nomad
14. G.I. Generation
(1901-1924), Hero
15. Silent Generation
(1925-1942), Artist
16. Baby Boomer
(1943-1960), Prophet
17. Generation X
(1961-1981), Nomad
18. Millennial Generation
(1982-2001), Hero
19. iGeneration
(2001- ), Artist
(Note: There was no Hero generation directly following the Civil War.)Secular Crises
•The Armada Crisis (1580-88)
•The Glorious Revolution Crisis (1675-1692)
•The American Revolution Crisis (1773-1789)
•The Civil War Crisis (1857-1865)
•The Great Depression-World War II Crisis (1932-1945)
•The Crisis of 2015-2025 ?Spiritual Awakenings
•The Reformation Awakening (1517-1539)
•The Puritan Awakening (1621-1640)
•The Great Awakening (1734-1743)
•The Transcendental Awakening (1822-1837)
•The Missionary Awakening (1886-1903)
•The Boom Awakening (1967-1980)“Fourth Turnings can end in many different ways, but those issues of political polarization will work themselves out during this era — they won’t linger,” he said. “Disaster, sometimes, scares people into making the required changes.”
But disaster alone isn’t enough. Howe points to generational constellations — or arrangements of generations in terms of age location — as a determining factor in how any conflict will play out. He maintains that comparing the impacts of the Vietnam War with those of World War II is a compelling argument in favor of this phenomenon, not only in terms of how the conflicts were handled by commanders and ground troops, but also by how returning veterans were treated at home. By most accounts, World War II — as a national experience — is generally regarded more positively than is Vietnam.
Many would argue that with the rapid rate of technological advance over the past few decades, the current time cannot be compared with any other. But Howe says that once context is applied, it’s easy to draw comparisons and make inferences about America’s future.
“In any given era, we’re hyper aware of the changes taking place, but each generation faces its own kind of change. If you look at the changes in the physical infrastructure during President Dwight Eisenhower’s life, they were enormous,” he said. At Eisenhower’s 1890 birth, there were no cars, no telecommunications and the biggest problem municipalities faced was removing manure from the streets. By the end of his presidency, he was riding in a jet airplane, commanding a nuclear arsenal and paving the way for a manned mission to the moon.
Compare that to the 60 years since the end of World War II. While information technology has advanced, the way most Americans conduct their lives on a day-to-day basis hasn’t changed all that much. People still drive cars, buy their food and live in the suburbs.
Howe sees technology as shaped more by generations than vice versa. Take computers. The institutionally oriented GI Generation created the huge mainframe computers of the 1960s and ’70s. During the 1980s, Boomers spawned a technological revolution that turned computers into an expression of personal liberation with the advent of the personal computer. “That was a declaration of independence. Millennials are turning technology back into a great big group thing,” said Howe, citing cloud networking and social networks, such as Facebook, which was created by a Millennial. “There’s no privacy with these great big social networks like Facebook.”
It is this group mentality that shows Millennials’ similarity to their GI predecessors.
“One of the biggest complaints I get from faculty members is that they can’t get students to debate anymore. They want to consult one another and come up with a consensus,” he said, adding that as GIs pass away, Millennials are taking their place in the generational constellation. “Not only does a generation correct for the excesses and mistakes of the midlife generation in charge, but it also fills the vacuum left by the generation that’s passing away.”
The generational types described in Strauss and Howe’s books can be found beyond Anglo-American history. Howe explained that strong parallels can be drawn between American generations and those in other developed countries. From the French and German counterculture radicals of the late 1960s — comparable to American Boomers — to the Chinese institution builders who appear to be neck and neck with our coming-of-age Millennials, generations in Europe, the Far East, Russia and other wealthy countries share many traits with their American counterparts.
On the other hand, the Muslim world appears to be on a different schedule than the West and other parts of Asia.
“The Muslim Awakening was one of the greatest spiritual awakenings in history, but it didn’t take place until about 1979,” said Howe, citing the rise of the Mujahedeen against Soviet Union, the Iranian Islamic Revolution and the Mecca Uprising as prime examples. Of Osama bin Laden’s father, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Howe asked, “What could be more ironic than a guy who poured more concrete than anyone else in Saudia Arabia having a son who wanted to blow it all up?” Sound familiar?
Although it can’t be looked at as a solution in itself to current problems, Strauss and Howe’s model offers a framework in which history suggests how the future is playing out. The outcomes of wild cards like climate change, resource depletion and the dynamic global balance of power can’t be predicted, but by looking at generational characteristics, perhaps a bit more confidence can be gleamed that those problems will be dealt with in a way that preserves our society and leads to a positive denouement.
While we may be a bit different than our forebears, history suggests that even they were not without their faults, and that we have more in common with them than we’ve given ourselves credit for. If they could dig themselves out of catastrophes like the Civil War and the Great Depression, why can’t we?
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Millennials the heroes! I love this article.
Unemployed Workers Turn to Entrepreneurship
Unemployed Workers Turn to Entrepreneurship
By YOUNG MONEY Staff
A new survey conducted by job website CareerBuilder.com found that over 26 percent of unemployed workers laid off in the last six months are thinking about starting their own business
22 July 2010instead of searching for new jobs. The unemployed are turning their hands to a wide variety of new ventures, including cleaning services, consulting, event planning, e-commerce and even baking.
Social media and the internet offer different opportunities for entrepreneurs young and old, as Craigslist and other classified ads help people find both labor and services, while dedicated sites like Sologig.com offer contract work
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Social media websites like Facebook and Twitter help people leverage their networks of contacts efficiently,providing a platform for free, effective PR if handled correctly.
The transition from seeking full or part-time positions to creating new business could be good news for the economy as a whole. It's widely accepted that small businesses are the primary engine of economic growth and new employment. The U.S. Small Business Administration calculates that just over 50 percent of all private sector employees work for small businesses, and 64 percent of new jobs over the past 50 years came from these same small ventures.
The Associated Press: Education inventors get boost under new programs
Education inventors get boost under new programsBy KATHY MATHESON (AP) – 10 hours ago
PHILADELPHIA — A movement is under way to make it easier for entrepreneurs to navigate the lucrative and sometimes-tricky education market and introduce new technology and products into classrooms.
An educator at the University of Pennsylvania wants to create one of the nation's only business incubators dedicated to education entrepreneurs. The U.S. Department of Education is also getting into the act with a $650 million fund to boost education innovation.
"Here's this (market) that is huge, that is really important, that needs innovation, and there's just nothing out there to sort of foster it," said Doug Lynch, vice dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education. "Let's create a Silicon Valley around education."
K-12 schools and degree-granting institutions spend more than $1 trillion on education annually, federal statistics show. That represents immense potential for entrepreneurs — if they can resist the lure of more established tech firms and trendier ventures like social networks.
There are other roadblocks.
Despite constant talk of making U.S. students more competitive, Lynch said it can be nearly impossible to introduce a new product in the fractured K-12 market because of frequent changes in superintendents, policy and curricula. Each of the nation's 15,000 school districts has its own needs and often cumbersome purchasing process.
"It's worse than trying to sell to the U.S. Army, in terms of the hoops you have to jump through," Lynch said.
The incubator he envisions at Penn — called NEST, for Networking Ed entrepreneurs for Social Transformation — would identify promising businesses and give them financial and logistical support, such as access to capital, work space and university expertise.
Linking educational researchers, who tend to be theoretical, with entrepreneurs, who are more practical and action-oriented, could help unlock the market, said Kim Smith, co-founder of the NewSchools Venture Fund, which invests in education businesses.
"If they can figure out a way to bridge those two communities, it could be a real contribution," said Smith, now CEO of Bellwether Education Partners.
Penn, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, has already held two summits on education entrepreneurship and hosted its first business plan competition, sponsored by the school and the Milken Family Foundation.
The top prize was the Digital Proctor, which creators say can identify typists through keystroke biometrics and thereby make it easier for teachers to root out test fraud. Digital Proctor beat out competitors from 27 states and three countries to take the $25,000 top prize.
In an interview, Digital Proctor CEO Shaun Sims said investors' lack of familiarity with the education industry means entrepreneurs must make a double pitch: first on the market overall, then on the actual product they've developed.
An incubator would "create an ecosystem for education" that attracts entrepreneurs who might otherwise venture into more investment-friendly efforts, he said.
"You're going to get the country's best talent working in this market instead of going to Silicon Valley working on the next social network," Sims said.
The U.S. Department of Education hopes to bolster entrepreneurship with its Investing in Innovation fund.
Jim Shelton, assistant deputy secretary for the Office of Innovation and Improvement, said it is easier than ever for schools to use new ideas and products because of increasing Internet connectivity, cheaper technology and the growing use of hard data to measure outcomes.
"The shift toward evidence as the currency for education ... will make it a much more rational market," Shelton said. "It will be much easier for entrepreneurs to prove that what they have is what people should be spending time and money on."
Arizona State University is also embracing the emerging field. It held its first education entrepreneur summit last spring and has started discussions with Penn for some kind of partnership, said Julia Rosen, associate vice president for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Arizona State's business incubator, SkySong, has all types of companies but is intensifying its focus on education businesses because of the "incredible market potential," Rosen said.
"Individual consumers are increasingly willing to pay for education, whether it's lifelong learning, private schools, tutoring (or) test prep," she said. "We think education is going to be the next health care."
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Promoting entrepreneurship through the simplification of start-up requirements | Manila Bulletin
InnoVentures Capital Managing Director Steve Grizzell Recognized for Leadership in Entrepreneurship | Business Wire
InnoVentures Capital Managing Director Steve Grizzell Recognized for Leadership in Entrepreneurship
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InnoVentures Capital Partners www.innoventures.com, an SBA Small Business Investment Company, is proud that one of its Managing Directors, Steve Grizzell, received an award for leadership in entrepreneurship from the Community Foundation of Utah. The award was presented by the Community Foundation’s Chairman, Greg Warnock, and Executive Director, Fraser Nelson.
“I am extremely honored to be recognized for the work I have been doing to promote social entrepreneurship”
“I am extremely honored to be recognized for the work I have been doing to promote social entrepreneurship,” said Steve Grizzell. “The fact that this recognition comes from the professional community makes this distinction even more significant,” he continued.
The Enlightened Fifty or E-5-O recognizes community-nominated and peer-selected entrepreneurs who are a driving force in improving Utah's future. The criteria for nomination included:
- Pioneer innovative and sustainable approaches to the critical issues facing our state and its residents.
- Demonstrate a consistent commitment to community engagement.
- Are most likely to make a profound mark on Utah's quality of life.
- Value collaboration, entrepreneurship and creativity in giving back to Utah.
About InnoVentures Capital Partners (www.innoventures.com)
InnoVentures Capital Partners is the manager of the UTFC family of funds located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and invests in small companies throughout the region by providing subordinated debt to start-up and growing businesses.
InnoVentures Capital fills a unique niche in the Utah venture capital network by providing up to $500,000 to entrepreneurial companies. The capital investment is enhanced by our team that has invested together in early stage businesses for over a decade.
Download the InnoVentures Capital Investment Package:
http://www.innoventures.com/investment_package.pdf
The Schools Don’t Encourage Entrepreneurship | Bastiat Institute
Fantastic speech about entrepreneurship and how the school and college system are inadequate for most of the kids.
Arianna Huffington: We Can Finally Explain What Bloggers Are
I love Arianna, she is a real innovator.
Co-creating a new vision by Barbara Marx Hubbard - Soul Hang Out
Co-creative coherence! We are all one.
