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Kenan Samms

What Should We Teach in High School for Entrepreneurship

The Arizona Department of Education has invited me to speak to them today about state standards for teaching high school kids about entrepreneurship. This forces me to think what young entrepreneurs (and their teachers) really need to ...READ»

ChubbyBrain Makes Information/Insights about Startups and Investors More Accessible

We often hear and know intuitively that our future depends on the energy of entrepreneurs and the investors that back them coming up with brilliant ideas that solve our problems - both big and small. Yet amazingly, information and ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Pat Sullivan Talks About the DNA of a Startup

Every once in a while I find someone's blog that I think should be shared with startups. Pat Sullivan is a friend of mine, and a serial entrepreneur/founder. I always wonder why he gets involved with what he does, and here he talks ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Entrepreneurs and Hope

The only people in the world with hope right now are entrepreneurs. And that's why they get things done.READ»

As Luck Would Have It…Success Is Not A Science.

One of my favorite radio programs is a quasi-science show called Radio Lab and is hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. There are two reasons why I love this program so much: 1) because the production values are so good that no matter what they are talking about it sounds multilayered and dynamic and 2) while the topics are science related they are not overly technical and there is a heavy philosophical element usually presented from various sides by the two hosts and their guests. Anyway, while perusing the Radio Lab website the other day to download some files for my iPod, I came across a podcast entry where the two hosts are discussing the early days and their first failed attempt at creating a skit for another public radio program called This American Life. Toward the end of the skit, Jad answers a question about how the show is produced, and he talks about science in a way that struck me, in that it is directly related to entrepreneurship and for that matter…life. Here is an excerpt: READ»

Kenan Samms

Starting a Business in a Downturn

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1101749. Yesterday I put up a post, many people went to see it, and it didn't embed properly. So here's the link:-)READ»

Adriana Gascoigne

What's It Like to Be a Girl in Tech?

Girls in Tech is a social outreach organization founded in 2007 by Adriana Gascoigne, communications director of social network Hi5. GIT's mission is to enhance the careers of tech sector women with workshops, lectures, networking ...READ»

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