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A friend of mine is contemplating grad school in order to adorn her wall, and her resume, with another glowing degree.
Back when I was working my Google dronejob, feeling overqualified, and hating every moment of my forty hours, I thought about grad school too. I figured that an MBA would be my easiest ticket out [...]

A recent post by Nick Stamoulis of Marketing Pilgrim has me obsessed with questions about the generation gap.
Normally, I prefer to accord agency to the individual, rather than to cliched group identities like “Baby Boomers,” “Generation X,” or “Generation Y.”
But… as an apparent member of the Gen Y tier, I couldn’t help but COMPLETELY identify [...]

WHAT: Know your geographic advantage.
Sandbox is an offline social and professional network of “extraordinary achievers under 30.” Sandbox is also a for-profit company currently in the process of filing for incorporation under Swiss law.
How does a company make money from being a “network of extraordinary achievers?”
Here’s Sandbox they stacked up in terms of geographic [...]

WHAT: Be a really good networker.

Unless you plan to start a business sending mail bombs to people, you’ll need lots of company – partners, advisers, colleagues, and customers.
Antoine grew Sandbox from a spark he saw in one of his earliest network-building experiences:
“The first time I realized the power of networks was when I was 16. [...]

Silicon Valley-ites are not the only people in the world who know cutting-edge media entrepreneurship. Why, then, do we have such center-of-the-universe attitude about the Valley that’s rivaled only by NYC and its frighteningly die-hard residents (friends in New York, I love you)?
What do you do if you want to be an entrepreneur on [...]

When I tell people about this blog, they inevitabley know someone that they’d like to refer to me, which I take to be proof of how fantastically entrepreneurial we Americans (or young people? or Silicon Valley-ites?) are.
Nine times out of ten, that someone is a guy.
Granted, these guys have great stories, and diverse too, so [...]

In college, we learned about social entrepreneurs, the people like crazy Bill Drayton of Ashoka, who are transforming the nonprofit landscape by infusing their projects with a decidedly entrepreneurial flair. Most were nonprofits, very few were primarily businesses that, secondarily, happened to be in the business of ‘helping people.’
Sutanto Widjaja knew he wanted to stay [...]