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Happy Christmas!

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I hope you’ve had an amazing year, and a ready for a well deserved break with friends and family for the Christmas and New Year holidays!

Here’s a Christmas message from merecorded yesterday while visiting Glencar Waterfall on the West Coast of Ireland with my family (That’s my son, Luke and daughter, Kathleen, behind me).

What 2016 will have in common with a waterfall

From myself, and on behalf of all of our team at Entrepreneurs Institute, ha...

Star Wars for entrepreneurs and superheroes. Which one are you?

Star Wars for entrepreneurs and superheroes. Which one are you?

If you would like your entrepreneurial journey to resemble more of a Star Wars movie, step behind the scenes for the inspiration behind the latest movie:

J.J. Abrams, who directed and co-wrote “The Force Awakens” went to college at Sarah Lawrence where famous mythologist, Joseph Campbell taught for 40 years. It was Joseph Cambell’s “Hero’s Journey” that was George Lucas’ original inspiration for Star Wars.

J.J. used Joseph Campbe...

A very special Christmas present!

Are you looking for the best Christmas present, holiday gift or New Year treat for someone special? Or for yourself??

Today I have something which I believe could be just what you’re looking for.

If you want to set up 2016 for success, and you’re looking for that one thing that will deliver you the connections, resources and cutting-edge learning you need in one package, this is it.

At the beginning of January we have our biggest launch in our history, where we are offering ac-cess to ALL ou...

The best advice you will receive

Still the best advice:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Tr...

What is the future of business?

Chris Roberts’ crowdfunding project yesterday exceeded $100 million raised.

No, that’s not a typo, and it could spell the future of business for all of us.

Chris is a game designer who had his first big hit “Wing Commander” in the 1990’s while working for the computer game company, Origin.

Caught by the entrepreneur bug, he started his own company with his brother in 1996. What followed was 4 new companies in 15 years as he looked for the right formula to let him build the kind of games he...

How worried should we be about evil A.I. and killer robots?

How worried should we be about evil A.I. and killer robots?
Keep reading and then you decide:

Bill Gates thinks we should be very worried, saying “I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don’t understand why some people are not concerned.”

Elon Musk tweeted “We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.” On Friday he took another step in the shoes of Iron Man’s Tony Stark (which is already loosely based on him) to fight tomorrow’s evils. He launched Open...

Be my partner?

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I know you’re passionate about supporting entrepreneurs, which is why I would love to partner with you.

On December 7th we have the pre-launch of the most exciting announcement in our ten year history, and I am inviting you to be my partner on this.

For the first time ever, our entire 2016 calendar of Fast Forward your Business Events will be combined into one 12 month festival of international entrepreneurship.

This event series has become the...

If the World Were a Village of 100 People

Our world population of 7 billion as a village of 100 people:

Here are our mother tongues:

12 speak Chinese
5 speak Spanish
5 speak Hindi or Bengali
5 speak English
73 speak the other 6,000 languages

Here is our wealth:

1 owns 40% of the wealth
6 own half the wealth
51 live on less than $2 a day

Here are our religious beliefs:

33 are Christian
22 are Muslim
14 are Hindu
7 are Buddhists
2 are Atheists
(And 33 believe in witchcraft, ghosts and aliens)

Here are our homes:

51 live in cities and c...

The Billion Dollar Tweet

Here’s a tweet Travis Kalanick sent in January 2010. The reply from Ryan Graves happened 3 minutes later. That tweet was worth over a billion dollars.

January 2010 was the month Travis was doing a test run with 3 cars in New York for a mobile app that he and his friend, Garrett Camp, had just created.

They had decided it was time to start a company around the app and, needing to find a GeneralManager to run it, Travis took to Craigslist and Twitter looking for the right person.

Ryan’s reply t...

What work would you do if you didn’t need to work?

What work would you do if you didn’t need to work?

This week, Finland announced it’s plan to pay all it’s 5.4 million citizens 800 euros every month – just enough money to be able to eat, drink, sleep, learn and live a life without fear of not having enough.

http://bit.ly/finland-basic-income-plan

Can you imagine a world where everyone worked on what they loved?

If you got paid enough to not have to work for the money, what would you do? Would you create art? Do something to change the world? D...