The following answers are provided by members of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow businesses via live video chats, an expert content library [...]
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Find Your Voice So You Can Die Empty [Video w/ Todd Henry]
“In the midst of the craziness, everything in our life becomes unstructured,” Todd commiserated. We’ve all been there: pulled in different directions, out of sync, and just plain fried. But we don’t always know how to get ourselves back to that state of flow so we can do our best work. Todd Henry is the [...]
Awesome startup communities create ‘Startup Triangle’ in SW Indiana.
The startup scene has really taken off in southwest Indiana over the last several months. Terre Haute, Evansville and Bloomington seem to form a ‘startup triangle’ for the region. For starters, there has been no lack of Startup Weekend events. The first Crane event launched on October 5th, 2012. Bloomington on November 9th, 2012. [...]
Startup Fever Hits Terre Haute
An awesome event took place in Terre Haute, Indiana last weekend and I was fortunate enough to be involved and live to tell about it. During the weekend of Feb. 8th, 2013 over 85 energetic startup enthusiasts, business coaches and local leaders came together in a friendly competition to pitch ideas, form teams, build prototypes [...]
The Lemonade Day Seed Fund: I Wish I Had This When I Was a Kid
Life didn’t give me lemons. I grew up in a lower-middle class home and never once worried if I’d have food to eat or clothes to wear to school. But we never had an excess of cash loads of toys or exotic vacations. So how’s a wide-eyed, enterprising kid supposed to get a new Game Boy? (yes, [...]
A Letter to the Indianapolis Startup Community: What’s Our Bowling Pin Strategy?
I shared this email with our Verge Indianapolis hub earlier today. I had a couple of people request that I repost it here on the Verge blog. Enter Matt Hunckler (circa 12 hours ago)… Hey, Three years ago, there was nothing. No co-working space, no startup accelerators, no meetup groups, no early-stage funding. And no, [...]
Parties, Show Girls and the Right Kind of Relationships
Happy Wednesday afternoon, all! Hope your week is off to a productive start. If it isn’t, well, it’s not too late to change that. Last time I wrote, I shed light on my time out at Salesforce.com’s annual conference, Dreamforce. It’s only been a week since returning from the madness, and it already feels like [...]
To San Fran and back – the tech scene gets smaller
I’ve been in Indianapolis just over two years, which is hard to believe. I’ve also invested a lot of time and energy, over those two years, to really get to know the Indy tech community. It’s fascinating. I’ve met entrepreneurs, techies, influencers, VCs, CEOs, and a ton of other people like me – those who [...]
Are You Getting These Benefits from Mentorship?
I was sitting at my laptop late last night, staring blankly at the screen as the cursor blinked back at me. I’d been here before—sitting with a challenge in front of me without knowing how to even approach getting started. Maybe you’ve been here before too. I hope you have, because it’s one of the [...]
Why the only thing some “Entrepreneurs” will invent is excuses
Too often, you meet or read about people who claim to be ‘entrepreneurs’; but, who, in reality, realistically have very little possibility of actually becoming one. Why? Excuses. Chances are, you have used one of the excuses I am about to describe at least once in your life already. It would be a lie if [...]
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