Month: March 2020

Another day in self-isolation and signs are that this is not going to end soon so here are some thoughts on what we can do that is constructive as entrepreneurs? (As just humans, we should do all the other things to flatten the curve like social distancing, washing hands, etc.).

In my career as a CTO I’ve built many products; a few have been successful, while many have fallen short of expectations. However, embedding Disciplined Entrepreneurship at the heart of how I approach new proposition development has helped the businesses that I coach to test, learn and succeed more often.

Thomas Edison and Walt Disney are not just America’s greatest creative problem-solvers. They are paragons of all the antifragile entrepreneurial skills we have discussed. Edison is famous for the thousands of “failures” it took to come up with the right filament for his lightbulb. Disney’s businesses failed several times, and he almost went bankrupt in the midst of creating two of his many masterpieces – the film “Snow White” and Disneyland. Indeed, it was only after he lost his first…

My journey as an online learner in the MITx Entrepreneurship 101 course on edX marked for me the beginning of a progressive discovery of the power and importance of community.  There is a deep joy that can be experienced through building inspired and respectful collaborations, based on reciprocity and the feeling of something being moved forward together. Although working with one another is sometimes terribly challenging and certainly always complex, it might ultimately be the only effective…