Does being average have any real benefit? Going to school, earning your degree, getting a job, having a family, retiring at 65 and dying a few years later. Is that the course of life that many of us want to take? I don’t mean to sound pessimistic, but this is how the majority of us [...]
How do you view the creative process? Do you find it exhaustive, time consuming, unbearable? Enjoyable perhaps? Each of us look at challenges and opportunities differently. It usual depends on what we’ve experienced in our past that dictates how we feel about these potential opportunities. I believe each one of us is creative in our [...]
One of the most annoying and counterproductive elements of the job process is the Cover Letter. That age-old formal document that explains why you want to work at the company you are applying to is being replaced. By what you may ask? How about a 140 character sentence describing why you want the position. Finally, [...]
What’s the next big thing? That’s what many business owners, marketers and industry execs ask themselves on a daily basis. As we continue to learn and discover new ways to spot trends, we must understand that their isn’t some surifire formula or static experiment that will reveal what’s next to come. The science of spotting [...]
When I first heard the story about “Venture Cafe” I was intrigued immediately. Imagine a cafe dedicated to connecting entrepreneurs to VC’s and vice versa. Founded by the Cambridge Innovation Center, Venture Cafe is located just off the MIT campus in a temporary space. The New England Venture Capital Association have already sponsored “office hour” [...]
This may sound like I’m ranting a little bit, but I’m beginning to see how being different in almost everything actually works to ones advantage. To be clear, when I say different, I’m basically referring to going against the norm. I’m not going to make this huge prediction that in the next 20 years employers [...]
One of the hardest things for me to do is tell someone what I want to do (Professionally that is). The most popular question I was asked after graduating college was “What’s next?” Or “What do you want to do now.” This question, as obvious as it may sound, sometimes forces us to make decisions [...]
What do you do when you have a good idea? Do you think about it for a long time and try to make it better? Or do you get all the materials you need and start executing it? I don’t have the right answer, but I do believe that there are positive ways to make [...]
After reading a few excerpts from Seth Godin’s best-selling book “Permission Marketing” I was interested in his point about Mass Media being dead and Niche Media taking its place. He notes that in the past 30 years media content has grown exponentially and the World Wide Web has become a defining factor. People are no [...]
Many of us Generation Y’ers are confused about what we’d like to do after school. With so many new and exciting opportunities available, it’s hard to zone in on just one. However, some don’t see it like that. Popular belief often tells us that one needs to be “gifted” in order to do certain things. [...]
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