Iterating Isn’t Just For Businesses

It’s also for yourself. To understand how iteration applies to your personal life let’s first understand how it applies to the business world. If you’re running a marketing campaign, iterating just once or twice a year, slowly responding to feedback from the marketplace, the campaign is going to take a long time to get right….

Ed Tech In Ten Years

When I think of the future I envision a blank canvas with outlines of what could be. Shadows quickly morphing into different shapes and possibilities. If the current Ed Tech scene is indicative of where the future may be I’d hope in ten years it will progress to solve these problems: Disconnect between courses taught…

Qualities Of A Quality Exhibitor

I’m currently in Chicago to attend EDUCAUSE, whose mission is “to advance higher education through the use of information technology.” (This is a part two of “Qualities Of A Quality Conference.”) Conferences, specifically when you’re an exhibitor or vendor, can be a black box because it’s very difficult to evaluate a solid ROI. Four things…

Banker To The Poor

In the book “Banker To The Poor” by Muhammad Yunus we get a rare look at the economic transformation for those below the poverty line in Bangladesh. The primary catalyst out of poverty: micro loans. While reading this book, I was very interested on Muhammad’s thoughts on poverty in general. “Providing unemployment benefit is not…

The Best Sales Initiation

Generally speaking, below are the top three skills of a sales person: Enthusiastic Genuine care for people, and are curious about them Great at overcoming objections I would argue that by far being enthusiastic is one of the most effective keys of a sales women. I want you to think first time startup founder with…