INGRID RILEY

On Living, Being an Entrepreneur and Doing Business in the Digital Age

12 Pointers To Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur

Found this, love it, had to share. So you decided to go into business for yourself. Well here are twelve critical pointers you will need to succeed in your entrepreneurial venture. 1. Purpose Very simply stated, you need to know what you want to achieve in life and be willing to go after it. 2. [...]

The Entrepreneur’s Credo

Thanks to Wayne Chen, Jamaican entrepreneur for sharing this on Facebook. I had to share it here with you all. I do not choose to be a common man, It is my right to be uncommon … if I can, I seek opportunity … not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen. [...]

The 2 Things About Your Start-up Idea That Actually Matter

Regarding ideas, Google founder and CEO Larry Page has said this: “Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it’s very hard to fail completely. That’s the thing that people don’t get.”   I’ve found that all too often, founders overlook this. The start-up landscape is littered with examples of less ambitious things people don’t want.  [...]

Why Good Entrepreneurs Borrow, Great Ones Steal [VIDEO]

The Whole Truth About Being an Entrerpreneur

Entrepreneurship has been trending across the world big time over the past year especially and it’s no different here in Jamaica and the Caribbean. The state of things economic, the job loss, the rise in the numbers of the skilled and self taught  independent worker plus  access to so many people and things online – [...]

Six Lessons in Entrepreneurship for Caribbean Startups in the Making

There is nothing like hearing it from someone who has done it. You get too much of a false impression when you read magazine and blogs online that glorify the very young, just got funded entrepreneurs. Truth is most people can and do bootstrap and also too many of those well funded startups….fail. That said, [...]

On being a Connector and having Meaning & Money

A Connector is a person who “link us up with the world … people with a special gift for bringing the world together.” They have a truly extraordinary knack for making friends and acquaintances. The social success of Connectors is their ability to span many different worlds is a function of something intrinsic to their [...]

Quote of the Week

“When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you create something scarce, something others won’t do.” – Seth Godin. Taken from this article he wrote on “Your Competitive Advantage”

Quote of the Week from Mark Zuckerberg

There is such an advantage in doing things differently than how others are doing. That’s how you really WIN. – Mark Zuckerberg

6 things Caribbean Tech Entrepreneurs can do in tribute to Tech Visionary Steve Jobs

We lost the greatest tech entrepreneur of our time yesterday. Steve Jobs the co-founder of Apple, the company that through its people focused innovations, irrevocably changed the way we live and do business. He died yesterday at the age of 56. After I wrote my own personal tribute of how his life changed mine, I [...]

What Steve Jobs Taught a Caribbean Woman Entrepreneur About Life and Business

iNSPIRED For me, it wasn’t just about his innovations that changed our daily lives and the way we do business, but it was also his approach to life and business that made me read everything I could get on what he had done, had said, how he thought and what he saw as his mission [...]

Back to School Yes. Being schooled for a very different world?

As everyone goes back to prep school, high school and college today…it has to be asked…are our children, our students going to be relevant and viable when they leave the current school system? As Seth Godin says..”Large-scale education was never about teaching kids or creating scholars. It was invented to churn out adults who worked [...]

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