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06.08.17
Success, Significance, & Legacy
A colleague of mine has in his office a placard that reads “Success, Significance & Legacy”. The placard serves as a reminder that there are three “big” stages you might go through during your career. While he is 80 years old, each day he intentionally thinks about how to build and extend his enduring legacy, […]
Read More05.31.17
What Cities Can Learn from the Rise of Innovation Districts
Entrepreneurship and innovation do not exist in a vacuum. In fact that’s why I find the work I do so fulfilling; it touches so many facets of the economy and impacts positively so many people’s potential and future. One trend that particularly fascinates me the rise of so-called Innovation Districts around the globe. Barcelona is […]
Read More05.24.17
Nonprofit Leaders as “Adaptive” Business Builders
Entrepreneurship isn’t just for start-up or growth-oriented for profit ventures. Business Builders (AKA entrepreneurs) – a more global and inclusive term coined by Gallup – can spawn from all walks of organizational life – associations, non-profit charities, educational institutions (think about how Purdue is disrupting education with the Kaplan acquisition), government agencies (hard to imagine!), […]
More05.17.17
3 Ways to Bootstrap Your Business
Bootstrapping is a fancy word for “self-funding” your venture. Self-funding can take many different flavors – credit cards, friends & family, customer billable projects and the like. While a small percentage of all ventures are able to secure thirdy party investment from angel investors, the average US startup launched today requires upwards of $117,000 to […]
Read More05.14.17
EntreLeadership
This past Friday, the NIIC Senior Leadership Team attended the 1-Day EntreLeadership event in Chicago featuring Chris Hogan, Christy Wright and Dave Ramsey. This was both a terrific team building opportunity for our NIIC team to dive into the applicability to our business model as well as an inspirational day of leaning into the character quality concepts and […]
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