We need businesses with heart, purpose, and ethics more than anything else today. Collaborative consumption is a good place to start.Clem Auyeung
The feeling of being inspired is a powerful driving force for creativity and productivity. At the work place it may be the single most important perk that an employer can offer to employees.Bistra Milovansky, member at WECREATE tackles a new business principle: Energy is the new Currency
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WECREATENYC invites you to our new community roundtable series to encourage collaboration amongst industry. This roundtable will act as an intimate focus group that will impact your business challenges, generate contact leads, and create community. Plus, you’ll get to drink a few beers on us!
Monday, April 9th
Introductory session to help set the foundation for innovation in your enterprise. This session is designed to help Fashion Entrepreneurs explore solutions for their 2012 Innovation Challenge with the aim of teaching the skills you need to create new innovative ideas for products or services and how to effectively deliver and implement them with your audience.
But a business, especially in the world of startups, is often like an iceberg. What most people see is just 10 percent of the entire mass; much more lies unseen. Long hours late at night; the existential limbo of uncertainty and self-doubt; the burn of dreams dashed when things just don’t go right. That’s a universe of entrepreneurship that we’ve been sold – but what if we don’t fit into its mold? If you’re not out there aggressively pitching, seeking VCs, expanding your capital base, distributing equity shares, does that mean you haven’t earned the right to call yourself an entrepreneur or a startup?
Is it to brag about being an entrepreneur (a nod to ego), or is it have an impact – to solve a thorny problem or to reinvent the old way of doing things into something creatively disruptive?
A key difference between the ‘SDE approach’ to entrepreneurship and the ‘systems/people’ approach is the way you scale your talent or passion. Rather than scaling vertically and building a company with systems, levels and people around you to do the jobs you don’t want to do or are just plain bad at, you scale vertically and look for ways to keep the “business” as small and simple as possible.Jonathan Fields, simplicity-driven entrepreneurship
