Odds are that you’ve heard someone talk about “Artificial Intelligence” and “neural networks” in the recent past. If you are like most non-engineers, you may have no idea what that…
Continue readingOver the past few years I have taken an increasing number of classes on MOOC platforms such as Coursera, Udacity, Udemy and Lynda. The most I’ve paid for an entire…
Continue readingI’ve been thinking for the past day or two about how to best describe my visit to Kakuma but it’s proving very hard to capture in words that do it…
Continue readingI will be going to Kakuma Refugee camp in northern Kenya next week with my friend and colleague Henrik Scheel and his company StartupExperience to teach a two-day Bootcamp on…
Continue readingI read an article a few months ago in the Washington Post that bothered me (that I just spent an hour digging up) Howard Schultz’s ‘nightmare’: How his first big gamble…
Continue readingDima, the lucky third passenger on our trip, is from Ukraine, not the United States originally. He was very curious to hear about how our election process for President works…
Continue readingLast month, I had the opportunity to give a presentation to a large group of students participating in the InventOR pitch competition. If you aren’t familiar, InventOR is a competition that brings…
Continue readingI was reading a book over the weekend called Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can be Copied. It lays out an argument for what causes some companies…
Continue readingYou’ve probably heard the expression “sales is an art and a science”. But have you ever stopped to consider what that actually means? My interpretation is pretty simple. The ability…
Continue readingI was in Kiev, Ukraine a few months ago and did a workshop on “Personal Attributes of a Successful Entrepreneur”. The nice thing about doing this type of workshop in…
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