The web is overflowing with free startup advice. It can be overwhelming for any entrepreneur. Our Unreasonable Mentor and Scribe, Chris Yeh, has some extremely simple yet powerfully effective wisdom for you.
Your career is not just a way to earn a living. It’s your chance to discover what you’re here for and what you love. It’s your best shot at improving the world in a way that is important to you.
Watch: Pascal Finette, Portfolio Manager at Google Giving divulges his secrets of mustering the courage to take risks that could result in failure, how to keep the main thing the main thing and why your numbers are bullshit.
Watch: UNREASONABLE.is Scribe, Chris Yeh, talks about his early start in entrepreneurship, the mistakes he's made along the way and the importance of a good team.
Here are a few of the lessons I’ve learned as I stumbled my way through the world of social innovation. I hope some of these prove useful as you travel your own path.
The greatest truth is this: if the health of the individual is not cared for then all the big ideas die when the thinker becomes too ill or tired or burned-out to carry them out. The big thinkers are going to need health on their side to get it done.
Watch as media mogul, Waylon Lewis, shares proven strategies for building a loyal audience, sticking to your guns (for better or worse) and risking it all to do the right thing.
Language and your use of it is one of the most powerful instruments you have to create specific outcomes. For instance, you have a certain amount of time each day, where you choose to spend it demonstrates your true priorities.
Five years ago, Steve Bachar and I decided to invest in companies capable of transforming the livelihoods of at least 100 million customers living on $2 a day, generating at least $10 billion in annual revenues and earning sufficient profits to attract commercial financial investment. There was only one problem. We couldn’t find any.
Wes Selke, founding director of HUB Ventures, really digs bringing innovation to life. Here, he shares the best ways to get investor attention (and the best way to lose it), why passion is essential and specific resources to help you develop a strong startup team.
Watch: Startup guru Robert Reich talks about how to raise money, how not to communicate your idea, why "sexy doesn't mean easy," and what you should never do as an entrepreneur.
Has everything we could have said, been said? What has really changed? Aren't we still looking at the same handful of challenges? How much progress has actually been made? It's time to stop debating.