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 [...]

Why “International” Bloggers Have an Unfair Advantage

What is your home country’s brand and unique selling proposition and how can you leverage that in your blog? What a breath of fresh air this blog post breathes into the culture of blogging from countries outside of the US, Canada and Europe. Caribbean Bloggers, take note. If you’re in the blogging business, not being [...]

4 reasons why you do not need an investor to launch your new business

This is for the people who’ve called, emailed and tweeted to me about funding this past week. As I keep saying, I’m a big believer in bootstrapping till you put the prototype of your online product/service and see how the market responds. Be creative in getting people to know and love your product organically. If [...]

3 Questions Every Startup Entrepreneur Must Ask

….and they are 1. Who is (or will be) your customer? 2. What problem will you solve for them? What product or service are you delivering and how will that change their life or business? 3. Will they pay enough for it that you can make money? Read the full article here