Traveling to the Holy Land, A.K.A. Startup Nation

Traveling to the Holy Land, A.K.A. Startup Nation

Necessity is the mother of invention. Sometimes, to energize your innovative self, you need to be backed into a corner. In no country that I’ve traveled to is that more evident than in Israel, which is where I’ve been for nearly the past ten days. Surrounded by, unfortunately, enemies which should be neighborly countries, 8.5…

How Pirates Crushed Serfdom and Disrupted the Power Structure

How Pirates Crushed Serfdom and Disrupted the Power Structure

The Misfit Economy, written by Alexa Clay and Kyra Maya Phillips, is a book about the creativity required, and ‘against the grain thinking’ needed, to create a movement behind a new venture in the modern world. When I saw the book on the stand at an airport, I was immediately drawn by its subtitle ‘Lessons…

Sell Hard

Sell Hard

Two pretty, fit older ladies were eating dinner beside me last week at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Fran. As they were finishing up their meal, the waiter came and asked if they would be having desert. “Oh, no, I couldn’t possibly have any more,” said one of the women. The other one hesitated, and then…

Six Reasons Millennials Should Be Very Optimistic About Their Future

Six Reasons Millennials Should Be Very Optimistic About Their Future

Millennials’ parents and grandparents sure had it good. During their working careers, real estate prices took off, stocks soared in value, national GDP grew healthily around 3% annually, and taxes were routinely lowered. Contrast that for Millennials… stocks are overvalued after a near 8-year bull market, GDP barely beats 1% annually, government debt loads are…

Millennials Matter: Social Entrepreneurs Will Determine the Next President

Millennials Matter: Social Entrepreneurs Will Determine the Next President

This article was contributed by Chris Miller. Chris is the founder and CEO of the internationally renowned social entrepreneurship incubator and accelerator The Mission Center L3C. He is the co-founder of the Washington University Startup Training Lab and a senior lecturer of Entrepreneurship at the University of Missouri–St. Louis…   The 2016 election will be the…