Author: CJ Cornell

  • Shocked! Shocked!  But not Surprised.

    Shocked! Shocked!  But not Surprised.

    Money and Power without Transparency and Accountability: A Toxic Mixture   I should have known better. But sometimes it’s “damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” When all these revelations about sexual misconduct and harassment recently became public, people were shocked, outraged, and angry. I wanted to weigh-in with an emotional response of my…

  • The (startup) Brain Trust – Coming this Summer!

    The Startup Brain Trust A Guidebook for Startups, Entrepreneurs, and the Experts that Help them Become Great. No successful entrepreneur ever really gets there alone. They are surrounded by smart people giving them the benefit of their experience and expertise: Advisors, mentors, coaches. What works. What doesn’t work. How to do it right, and the horror…

  • What is Metapreneurship

    What is Metapreneurship

    Metapreneurship Metapreneurship means “beyond entrepreneurship.” It’s modern entrepreneurship in a networked world; it’s collaborative entrepreneurship. Metapreneurship is entrepreneurship 3.0 And as we’ll soon discover, Metapreneurship implies something bigger than merely being a solo entrepreneur. In a networked world, we’re all connected in many ways, and this is particularly true for entrepreneurs. Individual efforts become collaborative;…

  • The Cargo Cult of Entrepreneurship

    The Cargo Cult of Entrepreneurship

    Cargo cultism emerges within institutions, groups and organizations that were designed to foster entrepreneurship and help entrepreneurs: From accelerators and incubators, university programs, corporate innovation programs to government economic development, and many other programs – all suffer from this syndrome. They are trying to attract and nurture the growth of entrepreneurial companies so they can…

  • Vanguard Entrepreneurship – Coming this Fall !

    Vanguard entrepreneurship Designing Breakthrough Products for Brand New Markets. How can you do market research when there is no market yet? Asking customers is futile when customers don’t know what’s possible, and when customers don’t like change. Creating visionary products is more than innovation. It’s a new kind of entrepreneurship – predicting the future and…