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A Problem of Fear, Motivation, Communication, Busyness, or Laziness?

Here are Michael Luchies‘ latest reflections, in his own words Opportunities take a motivated and willing participant to grab a hold of them in order to provide value. Even when presenting an obvious...

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Now For The Fun Part

Wait For It . . . In my classes, I’m always telling students to hold off on thinking about solutions. They want to immediately jump to describing the features they want to build into a website or an...

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Solutions and Success

I’m feeling energized. My grand experiment is attracting some good attention and generating some excitement in our local community. Now if I could just help duplicate that for the students. I...

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The Names I Get Called and Why It Matters

  Crazy. Risky. Insane. Nuts. Dangerous (that’s one of my personal favorites!). Foolish. Confidently ignorant (another of my personal favorites!) I hear these words flung at me, but often more in...

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Why Spring Break Sucks

I promised myself I would do this startup experience as if I were one of my students. I struggled with how to handle spring break, which was last week. I assumed most students would (as I did) check...

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Not Just Another Day

For previous days as part of the 7 Day Startup, I worked on thoughts about what my Minimum Viable Product would look like. Today, I worked on a business name. I had a few options I was considering, so...

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I Know What It Feels Like

It’s the weekend. My son is on his spring break. It’s beautiful weather outside. I was having trouble transferring the domain over from GoDaddy to Bluehost (simple but frustrating tech issues). I’ve...

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Live and Sweating

The Site I found some time this weekend to knock out a super basic landing page per the instructions below from Dan Norris in 7 Day Startup. I used GoDaddy to get the domain, Bluehost to host the...

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I Am A Failure

Complete, 100% failure. OK, maybe more like 95%. But pretty damn complete. One of my “goals” this semester was to start a business, just as I ask my students to do. Inherent in that goal is also to...

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To Structure or Not to Structure

In teaching entrepreneurship, there are many critical questions: 1. Can entrepreneurship be taught? 2. Should we be teaching skill set, mindset, or both? 3. What is an effective pedagogical approach?...

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