Nothing good comes out of driving your startup against the wall, so how did we go from embracing failure to fetishizing it?
Pascal FinetteApril 6, 2017
Economics is messy, and we still teach a lot of myths in the intro to economics course – myths that spill over to conventional wisdom.
Seth GodinFebruary 8, 2017
When the coal industry has its back against the wall and developing countries are leapfrogging to renewable power, truth may be hard to see.
L. Hunter LovinsAugust 30, 2016
Entrepreneurs, you’ve got six seconds to tell your story, or at least to tell the audience why they should care enough to know it.
Rajesh AnandanAugust 24, 2016
A rumor says you should “never do business with friends.” This post debunks that myth and plots a path for those excited to work with people they love.
Daniel EpsteinJune 21, 2016
Cut the jargon used to describe business today. Read this and learn to focus on finding words that will not only capture your passion, but also set it free.
Cheryl HellerJune 8, 2016
The true measure of success is not how many companies you’ve started. Not how many “exits” you’ve had. Not how much money you made or how many houses you own. No, the true measure of success in life is how many other lives you made better.
J hoffApril 1, 2016
With stories filling our heads of startups achieving overnight success, it’s no wonder that entrepreneurs are increasingly impatient. But it takes time.
Chris YehJanuary 7, 2016
This article debunks misconceptions about press for startups and offers tactics for how to better engage with the press to accurately represent your company.
Daniel EpsteinSeptember 14, 2015
I hear a variation of the following statement from entrepreneurs all the time—typically delivered with…
Pascal FinetteApril 16, 2015
One of the memorable moments from my time mentoring at the Unreasonable Institute was in…
Cheryl HellerMarch 24, 2015
When I joined the World Bank five years ago, I remember someone telling me that…
Aleem WaljiMarch 23, 2015
Since at least the early ‘90s, those involved in the generation of more than money…
Jed EmersonFebruary 25, 2015
In a world shaped by efforts to influence us, using methods that are ever-evolving in scope and sophistication, freedom is inconceivable (or meaningless) without some kind of mental judo.
Manoj FenelonDecember 15, 2014
So many people in startup land go with the crowd and, thus, create the umm-teenth version of something that already exists. The supposedly smarter ones go against the crowd, which is not much better, as their theory of change is simply based on negating what everybody else is doing.
Pascal FinetteNovember 22, 2014
We have proven technology that enables us to solve big problems like climate change, but what we need is innovation in the business model—driven by entrepreneurs.
Jigar ShahOctober 29, 2014
We constantly see social networking apps being funded in the news, but what real social and economic progress have we seen from social media and what industries are going to drive this progress in the future?
Jigar ShahOctober 9, 2014