Roger Ebert inspires me. He used to inspire me to go out and see a movie based on his reviews, but now he inspires me on a completely different level. I just read Roger Ebert: The Essential Man in this month’s Esquire and learned about Ebert’s story. In 2002, he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer [...]
Entries from February 2010
Roger Ebert Inspires Me
February 16th, 2010 · 17 Comments · Personal Thoughts
Tags:Cancer·Life·Philosophy·Positive Thinking·Roger Ebert
Introducing Entrepreneur 101
February 10th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Entrepreneurship
A few different people have asked me “what sorts of things should be taught in a college level beginning entrepreneurship class?” I always had a few answers, but never came up with a comprehensive syllabus. After speaking in a class earlier this week at the UW Business School, I decided to write up a basic [...]
Tags:college·Entrepreneurship·innovation·startups·UW-Madison
More Practice, Less Theory
February 4th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Entrepreneurship, Sports
“What do we need to know this for?” I asked as my K5 teacher tried to tell me how to write more clearly. My penmanship was pretty bad and the teacher realized that I was writing my letters backward. Instead of writing some of my letters from bottom to top, I wrote from bottom to [...]
Tags:college·education·Entrustet·ExchangeHut·innovation·UW-Madison