The Pragmatic Populist

Not Being Penny Wise and Pound Foolish

I love startups. I love the chaos. I love the insane hours. I love the energy. I love the types of people who are attracted to work on high-risk ideas with long odds. I love the culture that evolves around them. I love it all. I have spent [...]

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Through the Entrepreneurial Looking Glass

In a recent blog post, author Scott Ginsberg recently asked Have You Executed These Ten Essentials of Entrepreneurial Excellence? He then listed off the ten things he highlights as essential for entrepreneurs to be truly successful: Prestige requires pandemonium Confidence requires congruency Fame requires flexibility Success requires surrender. Creativity requires curiosity Originality requires murder Serendipity requires strategy Dominance requires discomfort Matchlessness requires relentlessness Remarkability requires [...]

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Hooray the Freelance Economy

Scott Shane’s recent article on Business Week is called, “Beware the Freelance Economy.”  In it, he posits that cheering for the increased number of new businesses is premature, since so many of them are really solo practitioners (a.k.a. “freelancers”).  His point is that, because of this, these firms are not realistic sources of new jobs [...]

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