Business versus Startup, Managers versus Entrepreneurs
Is your venture a business or a startup? Are you a manager or an entrepreneur? Think it’s all semantics? It might be. But it also might be the source of a lot of tension in your day-to-day operations. Quick Quiz Do you make time for creating & investigating new ideas? Yes or No Would you [...]

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uncertainty, agility, failure, and the bets that will make you a success – or – how to have your art, analysis, & cake and eat it too.
I have often felt like a creative freak. I am not left-brained (metaphorical not physiological) enough to create detailed plans for ideation & exectuion. I am not right-brained enough to feel artsy fartsy and anything-goes-about creativity. When it comes to my business, I am comfortable figuring out how things work, what you need from me, [...]

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there is no recipe: your great work is a process not an epiphany
I do business much like I cook. I was reminded of that this weekend at The Creative Connection Event in St. Paul, Minnesota. I took a cooking class with Terry Walters, author of Clean Start. At the beginning of the class, she reminded everyone that, while measurements appear in her books, she never cooks by [...]

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what’s your hypothesis? making the art business a science
You didn’t go to business school. You don’t have an MBA. You don’t run a tech startup. The only “C” in front of your title stands for “cook” or “cleaner.” You’re an artist. You may not use paint or stone or metal. You may not sing or dance or write. But your work is an [...]

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