As many of you know, I'm running the Kenyon Innovation Greenhouse program this year, an entrepreneurship education program supported by Kenyon College and the Burton D. Morgan Foundation. This spring, we have a number of great events planned. Currently, SCORE is running a series of business launch classes Tuesday evenings, continuing through the month of February. A $10,000 business plan competition for students is underway. On February 17th, at 6:30pm in Gund Gallery on the Kenyon Campus, we will have Adam Swartzbaugh, Executive Director of GENESIS Network, Founder of Kid Launch and 1st Lieutenant, US Army. Adam is one of those people whose resume will make almost anyone feel slothful. He and GENESIS have built schools on the Burma/Thailand border, helped dig wells in Haiti, worked on conflict
Getting big once you've gotten started is no easy task. Jeff Bussgang discusses the lessons accumulated by seven great CEOs who grew their companies rapidly and successfully.
When people transition out of demanding careers and into an entrepreneurial situation, the workload often increases while the income falls. Here, the NYT talks to several people who started their own businesses and are living the dream of long hours and economic uncertainty.
Michael Driscoll writes about how to leverage the Big Data technology stack over at O'Reilly.
Simon Wardley considers the multi-product, multi-capability competitive strategies for Salesforce.com, Amazon, and Microsoft over at his weblog. He'll be speaking at the upcoming OSCON about how to use incumbents' strategies against themselves. I wish I could make it out there; it sounds like a really useful talk.
