Entrepreneurs Rule!

New blog young entrepreneurs

2011-09-29T08:36:00.000-07:00

This blog is being continued in a new blog for young entrepreneurs - actually a course blog in an international entrepreneurship course for european business and engineering students.

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You are lucky if you don't have time and money

2010-02-16T12:43:00.001-08:00

Limited time and money are your friends as an entrepreneur, not your enemy. The force you to work smarter and leaner than big corporations with loads of money and people.

Entrepreneur David Heinemeier Hansson is turning a lot of things upside down in the video below - it is an absolute "must watch" though it takes a full hour. You can also watch it as small episodes if you go to Stanford Entrepreneurship Corner.

The Business Model Alchemist

2010-02-07T07:44:00.000-08:00

If you want to break the rules of your industry, I guess you have to know the rules. To take a systematic approach I strongly recommend listening to Alexander Osterwalder.

Alexander Osterwalder has said and written a lot about business models for several years, and he has truly become one of my gurus - no my guru - in the field.

However, I have needed a practical tool for implementing his model without reading too much in advance. I therefore successfully created it myself and have used it for a few years now under the name "Business Model Construction Tool".

Mr. Osterwalder must have seen the same need and with The Business Model Canvas and the book Business Model Generation he has truly come up with a very useful tool and guide. In some ways even better than my solution :-)

I won't hesitate to recommend the 72 pages preview of the book. Read that and listen to at least the first 25-30 minutes of his lecture below. Then you are ready to develop innnovative business models.

Also check his blog Business Model Alchemist...

Preview of Alexander Osterwalds Businessmodegeneration

View more presentations from Fred Zimny.

Break the rules

2010-02-02T06:58:00.000-08:00

Two questions that every entrepreneur should ask himself:

What are the rules in my industry?
How can I break those rules?

Simple and inspiring video. Reminds me of entrepreneur David Ventzel from Screenticket who said it in another way: "There are no rules, you are creating the rules". So what are you waiting for all your anarchistic misfits out there ;-)

Break the Rules from Avin Kline on Vimeo.

Top 10 business ideas & opportunities for 2010

2010-01-13T09:52:00.000-08:00

Springwise.com has summed up the Top 10 business ideas & opportunities for 2010. Fx small scale food production using membership models or discreet rooftop solar panels and wind turbines. Check out the trends in business ideas.

For a broader view on trends for 2010 check out the media summary on Trendwatching.com.

Discover with fresh eyes

2010-01-12T06:46:00.001-08:00

Even if the whole world has the same assumptions, it doesn't mean that they are right. Go out in everyday life and watch. Just sit and watch. What is it that the rest of the world hasn't seen.

Listen to an inspiring story about looking different at kids tooth brushes.

We can do everything with what we have!

2010-01-12T06:35:00.000-08:00

Gunter Paoli believes that we have the capacity to solve any problem with what we have. We don't have to invent new funny things.

Gunter Pauli Lift France 09 interview (EN) from Lift Conference on Vimeo.

Changing ourselves, not the planet!

2010-01-12T06:10:00.000-08:00

Should innovation not only be profitable but also sensible, durable, sustainable and even beautiful. Dennis Pamlin puts an ethical perspective to innovation at the Lift Conference '09. Innovation should respond to an emergency and we should spend our time on innovating solutions to important problems.

It really makes you think about why you are innovating. Do we really need another gadget.

Dennis Pamlin, "Changing ourselves, not the Planet" (Lift France 09, EN) from Lift Conference on Vimeo.

Think like a traveler

2010-01-12T05:53:00.000-08:00

To be open to new ideas and opportunities you should practice thinking like a traveler in your everyday life. When you arrive in a place where you have never been before you notice everything - all the small differences and peculiarities.

Start looking at things and people that you don't usually notice. And start asking youself why...?

Observe the masses - and do the opposite

2010-01-12T05:37:00.000-08:00

It is pretty easy to think different as an entrepreneur. Most businesses are quite conventional, so if the walk in one direction, you can walk the other way. Or as James Caan put it: "Observe the masses and do the opposite":

The Magic Words

2010-01-12T05:32:00.000-08:00

The magic words of an entrepreneur is when your hear yourself or somebody else say "Somebody ought to do something about that". That's when you know that you just spotted a business opportunity.

Listen to Jim Stovall and when he heard the magic words:

Solve a problem!

2010-01-12T05:18:00.000-08:00

The first question from people who want to become entrepreneurs often is "How do I get a great idea?" Well, I think you should look for a problem to solve in stead. If you find a problem you really want to solve, you might be working hard enough to come up with a really great idea.

You can get my point in other words in the video below:

Any big problem is a big opportunity

There Are No Rules!

2010-01-12T05:14:00.000-08:00

The Entrepreneurs Rule! blog is not about rules for entrepreneurs, cause real entrepreneurs create their own rules. That is why they are entrepreneurs. They Rule the world.

In this blog you can learn from entrepreneurs - and go out and create your own rules!