by theEmother | Mar 10, 2011 | business ideas & thinking, entrepreneur trends (past & present!), entrepreneurial mothers, women in business case studies
Ken Phillips (Exec. Dir.) and the team at “>Click here for the full article:
Some of Simon’s observations include:
“… entrepreneurial economies [are] based on knowledge and ideas rather than economies of scale.”
“There are big differences between the former industrial ‘managed’ economies and the new ‘entrepreneurial’ economies.”
“One outcome is that, while a managed economy favours large businesses and corporate managements, an entrepreneurial economy offers more advantages for small businesses and more opportunities and rewards for entrepreneurs.”
“Although there may be clear signs that the successful economies of the future will be entrepreneurial economies, a lot of our thinking has not caught up with this and is still derived from assumptions which were more appropriate to the earlier second-wave Fordist era when big business ruled.”…
by theEmother | Feb 11, 2011 | entrepreneurial mothers, women in business case studies
As reported by Ken Phillips (Exec. Dir.) and the team at Independent Contractors of Australia
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“Daddy, where do entrepreneurs come from? Well son (Daughter), a daddy entrepreneur and a mummy entrepreneur who love each other very much…” Um! John Findley’s submission to the review of Business Immigration in Australia makes an interesting point in a light-hearted way.
John says (more seriously): “…compared to wage earner families, entrepreneur families produce significantly more entrepreneurs.” That is, countries that bring in entrepreneurs though migration create more entrepreneurs. John says that the current Australian migration rules encourage this and shouldn’t be changed. John has supplied us his submission:
http://www.contractworld.com.au/pages/PDFs/John-Findley-Visa-submission.pdf
by theEmother | Feb 5, 2011 | 4 hour work week, aCE talentNET, business ideas & thinking, so you think you're in business, women in business case studies
Proudly brought to you by Ken Phillips (Exec. Dir.) and
the team at “>ICA UK friends, the Professional Contractors Group, conducted a National Freelancers Day. This huge national event celebrated the importance of self-employment, which is as large in the UK as it is in Australia. As with us in Australia, PCG are working on regulatory reform, particularly tax reform.
But with the National Freelancers Day, it was the contractors (freelancers) who were the stars. In a series of short video clips we can pick up really good practical tips from people ‘living’ the same business struggle as ourselves on topics such as:
* How will I grow my business next year?
* What is my long-term plan?
* How can I increase my perceived value?
* How can I adapt and thrive in a buyer’s market?
We’ve linked to these as well as the National Freelancers Day website. Go to: http://www.nationalfreelancersday.org.uk/cms/
Look, in particular, for the video clip series of superstar ‘big mouth’ Joe Bauer on his ‘your business cards are cr..p’ series! It’s strangely compelling.
by theEmother | Jan 30, 2011 | business ideas & thinking, women in business case studies
According to Time.com…
Invention is a hedge against anonymity; make something that matters and you can live forever.
… Inventions have always had many parents. “Doubt is the father of invention,” said Galileo. Necessity is its mother, said Plato. Or, in the luxurious modern age, sloth, which gave us the electric toothbrush, the universal remote and the drive-through liquor store. These days, the operative motivation may be frugality, which leads to the discovery that balled-up newspaper deodorizes shoes, baby oil cleans chrome and sticking a marshmallow or an orange peel in a bag of brown sugar keeps it from hardening into a sweet dark rock. Or sustainability, which propels university students and volunteers to develop an incubator out of recycled car parts, engineers to embed battery rechargers in roadbeds and designers to fashion a fake fur coat out of plastic garment fasteners… keep reading
by theEmother | Jan 24, 2011 | business ideas & thinking, entrepreneurial mothers, inspiring women, MEinc, so you think you're in business, women in business case studies
As reported in Bloomberg Businessweek; Erin Ganju, co-founder of Room to Read, says the entrepreneurial nonprofit’s secret is “know what you do, and do it well”
At the start of Room to Read, the organization recognized that promoting and facilitating global education required a scalable and sustainable business model. Fast-forward a decade, and Room to Read is now a $30 million, award-winning nonprofit organization working in nine countries that has scaled faster and more successfully than many celebrated for-profit companies.
While I couldn’t have predicted such meteoric growth when we started, the secret sauce can best be summed up in one phrase: know what you do, and do it well… keep reading
by theEmother | Dec 20, 2010 | business ideas & thinking, so you think you're in business, women in business case studies
is this your idea of an entrepreneur?
