I have interviewed a few scientists turned entrepreneur and a lot of artists who are also small business owners, and it has been fascinating to me that their approach tends to be more fluid and understanding of the trials and tribulations of being an entrepreneur compared to many others. I wanted to examine more about the correlation between the scientific method, the creative process and the entrepreneurial experience.
Recently I watched the movie Martian, … CONTINUE READING
Robin Cox is one of the Chapter Be interviews that I was able to conduct on my trip to Amsterdam, and I wanted to speak with him about how he created Citinerary after working for many years in the advertising and marketing sector. We met in his studio in de Pijp to delve into how Citinerary came to be, and to talk more about his own path to being self employed. Robin is Dutch, but … CONTINUE READING
It has been around for several years, but I recently learned about the Tinkering School and fell in love with the concept. The school started in the San Francisco area by Gever Tulley, and there are now programs offered in Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Buffalo and Bratislava (which is the capital of Slovakia – and embarrassingly, I had to look that up). The concept is a program for youth that gives them the time, … CONTINUE READING
