This is Jamie Quint's blog covering technology, entrepreneurship, economics, and anything else interesting.
It seems that one of the easiest ways of being successful is to open new horizons for people, to make something possible that before was only available to somebody with a lot of money, or someone with a certain specific skillset. Simply Democratize. This isn’t a new concept, Henry Ford was successful because he democratized […]
How ridiculous does the above statement sound to you? When was the last time something became popular through word of mouth when it was declared like that? Nobody wants to like something because it is crammed down their through, they want to like it because they like it, they want to own that liking. Help […]
What would happen if companies set a lowest common denominator skillset, and then hired based on enthusiasm rather than experience? How would this effect the entrepreneurial nature of the work environment, would productivity go up or down?
Entrepreneurship is so trying because it makes us work against the forces of nature and all probability to succeed. Entrepreneurship is about being defiant, working against nature’s call to disorder, entropy. It’s not easy, you don’t get something from nothing by doing nothing.