Have you ever met a big-talking entrepreneur? The type who flaps his gums to you about bioreactors and continuous circuits and other high-tech whozits ‘n whatzats. Who asks about your business to test your intellect and decide whether or not the small neurons shooting in your head – which naturally pale in comparison to his [...]
About Brian Lash
You’re working on what? “Me too.”
When I tell an entrepreneur about a new product or service idea, he’ll ask, “Has it been done before?” A lot of entrepreneurs – myself included – think along these lines; We hear a new idea and want to know if it’s truly innovative. And we consider our own ideas in light of those products [...]
The “Others’ Mistakes” Fallacy
Every weekend I help my parents at their small business (it’s a mom ‘n pop convenience store). It keeps my feet on the ground, it reminds me of the importance of a few business fundamentals (like treating customers better than they expect to be treated when they walk through the front door), and it puts [...]
Questioning the Professor-Entrepreneur
A friend of mine needed to interview an entrepreneur to fulfill a requirement for his Strategic Management class. His professor — a self-proclaimed entrepreneur — requires as much. I agreed to the interview on the grounds that I would be helping a buddy. Anyway, I was curious. I mean, what’s an entrepreneur-professor? With few exceptions [...]
Lessons from the Field (A Top-10 List)
In the spring of my junior year of college I spent some time working for a local tech startup. It was a neat opportunity to gain some entrepreneurial experience while making some money and “learning by doing.” The company was developing social computing software with a mobile spin, and was readying for its first (gated) [...]
What kind of car do you drive?
What kind of car do you drive? Cell phone do you use? What brand of watch do you wear? What home do you live in? Have you outfitted it with luxury furniture and plasma screen TVs? Or did you furnish it with some IKEA essentials on a bargain budget? And where do you work? Play? [...]
Move your workspace, Increase productivity
It’s amazing what happens when you change your workspace. I always took that idea with a grain of salt. After all, if you work hard – if you’re passionate – why should you need a change of scenery to be productive? I learned why last night. One of my buddies – a collaborator on a [...]
The (dis)Connected Entrepreneur
My Dell’s Wireless Network Connection Status reads “Wireless network detected.” I use my cell phone to send my buddy in South Beach an SMS text, and to check for messages from my girlfriend in Miami. I wait at my gate to board my JetBlue flight from Boston to Pittsburgh. My round-trip ticket cost less than [...]
Don’t Read This Article
Entrepreneurs… we’re avid readers. We pour over business periodicals. We study Harvard Business and MIT Sloan Management Reviews. We read books. And books. And more books still. And many times our propensity to read is beneficial, like when we learn something useful about industry-wide trends, or when we discover new ways to start, grow, and [...]
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