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Focused on the long jump

Future Focused, Present Participant

by Todd Hannula on 04. Jul, 2011 in Entrepreneurship, Risk, tips

No, it’s not an English grammar lesson. Although the dangling participle remains that most annoying memory of the 10th grade.
Rather, it is a reminder to keep you mind on the future of achievement and not the present of the interesting. Derek Sivers points out brilliantly this conundrum.
I will only add that entrepreneurs should read my [...]

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Funding is not the Key

by Todd Hannula on 12. Jun, 2011 in Entrepreneurship, Social Business

Seth Godin is spot on (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/06/getting-funded-is-not-the-same-as-succeeding.html). How many times have you thought, “if I just get that loan or grant, we will be ok”? This is the classic self preservation trap. Where is the client in this thinking, where is the follow on graft? It’s not there bc we think the funding is the goal.
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Reading in the Tub!

7 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

by Todd Hannula on 20. May, 2011 in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Social Business, Uncategorized

I was not much of a book reading in high school or university. I read what was necessary for class (most of the time!) and read lots of magazine articles to fill my thirst for education outside school. However, over the past 10 years, I have become obsessive about books. Why? Because great books deliver [...]

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