A quick overview from an American on the 10 Things You Need TO KNOW Before Taking Your Business To America. This is a two-part series. America is the largest and easiest market you can possibly choose to do business in. It’s not difficult, but it is very different than your home country and there are a few things you need to know and to do before you go there.

Steve Jobs always said he wasn’t ashamed to steal good ideas. I’ll show you, using many examples, how the greatest creators “stole” their great ideas in the world of art, movies, hardware and software. My goal is to demonstrate to you a new way of thinking and innovating so that you can go beyond the ordinary.

Steve Jobs a toujours dis qu’il n’avais pas honte de voler les bonnes idées. Je vais vous montrer à travers nombreuse exemple comment les plus grand créateur ont “volé” leurs grands idées dans le monde de l’art, des filmes, du hardware et le logiciel. Le but est de démontrer une nouvelle façon de penser et d’innover pour que vous puissiez aller au delà de l’ordinaire.

Here’s a thirty-minute presentation on How to Pick Winning Startup Teams I recently did at the annual angel investors https://volgaangels.com/en/ conference in Russia.

Absolutely nothing prevents you from doing business on a global scale if you only speak one language… as long as the one language you speak is English.

Here’s a one-hour – Building a Pitch Deck and How to Pitch – presentation I had the honor of doing for The Next Society to a room full of entrepreneurs from the MENA region.

The meaning of words evolve over time. For example, in 1828 England the word “Entrepreneur” was defined as a “manager or promoter of a theatrical production”. I think this is an excellent bookend to the French definition of Entrepreneur… “one who undertakes or gets things done“. You can easily think of a startup as a […]

Being an entrepreneur literally means having to wear 101 hats. Here’s my list of the hats I wear from time to time.

To go forward in your understanding of becoming an entrepreneur you have to go back to the original 13th century French verb and think entreprendre… to do and JFDI!

The mantra of the entrepreneur: I do therefore I am.