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The Cargo Cult of Entrepreneurship
During World War Two, American and European military forces used tiny, remote islands in the South Pacific as safe stopover points. Here, provisions could be cached to supply soldiers and ships fighting the war in the Pacific.. Some of the islands’ residents were tribes living in bamboo huts, fishing with spears, and had spiritual beliefs…
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The Guru Paradox
The Experience Slide The Management Team. It’s the most important slide in the investor pitch deck. This is what all new entrepreneurs learn from the get-go. And it’s this slide that speaks volumes about the perception of “experience” in this modern era of entrepreneurship. As investors and advisors to a statewide economic development program, each month we’d listen to…
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New Book Redefines Modern Entrepreneurship
The Age of Metapreneurship Challenges the Foundations, and Redefines the Principles of Modern Entrepreneurship. New book by CJ Cornell chronicles a series of vast shifts in the business landscape that subtly transformed entrepreneurship – making the rules and lessons of the past obsolete – and charts a new path for building successful companies in the 21st Century. What happens…
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Chapters Overview
What’s Ahead The Age of Metapreneurship is a journey, traveling from old terrain to the new. Together, we’ll explore entrepreneurship’s recent past, and how the past is starting to hold us back. We’ll look at the major forces shaping business, culture, customers and technology, and see how they converge to create a new style of…
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Annotated Table of Contents
For those who are interested, here’s the expanded table of contents (chapter titles, headers and subheading titles) – to provide a little insight as to the style and content of the book. The Age of Metapreneurship by CJ Cornell Prologue Panic Heyday The Dark Side Struggles Real-Time Entrepreneurship Kids These Days Don’t Panic Wisdom…
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The Metapreneurs
The Metapreneurs They are not just entrepreneurs in the traditional sense. Many are indeed starting cutting-edge ventures, designed to scale and grow. Others look like small businesses, while some don’t even look like businesses at all. But their innovative, risk-taking activities are part of something bigger, more integrated and more collaborative. Metapreneurship is entrepreneurship with…
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Foundations of Metapreneurship
The Foundations Abundance in Everything. Everywhere. Immediately. It all starts with this familiar concept – abundance: a concept that emerged from the dotcom era, now mature and embedded in everything we do. But now abundance is more than just quantity and sheer volume of content. It’s abundance of connections; abundance of connected people; abundance…
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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…
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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;…