The bigger lesson here is to roll with it. Don’t think too much about what you have, or what you’ve done to get ‘ready’. There’s only so much you can do before you begin. Entrepreneurship is, after all, the art of turning random events into profit.

Which implies a weighty question — at least for those who are entrepreneurially minded: now that you’v... See more

All of this is to say that you can’t predict what might work in advance: often, the only information you can trust when doing something new is what you learn when you poke at reality.

On some level it makes sense that entrepreneurs think effectually. When you can’t know what happens next, or what shapes your idea will take, you will, quite naturally... See more

All entrepreneurs begin with three categories of means: (1) Who they are — their traits, tastes and abilities; (2) What they know — their education, training, expertise, and experience; and, (3) Whom they know — their social and professional networks. Using these means, the entrepreneurs begin to imagine and implement possible effects that can be c

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