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7 Fatal Voice Mistakes that Entrepreneurs Make when Pitching
Why some of the things you can’t even hear yourself saying may be killing your pitch and ruining your first Impressions In my head I...
Mar 6, 20173 min read


Entrepreneur Success Factor? Words-Music-Dance
Many entrepreneurs struggle. Some fail, yet some entrepreneurs succeed beyond their wildest dreams. What is the difference? What is the...
Oct 9, 20122 min read


The Secret to Pitching your Business in 30 seconds
If you can’t tell me in 30 seconds what you do and what you want, then I am not buying, investing or probably even listening any longer...
Jul 25, 20123 min read


Off The Beaten Path
Over the last year I have been working on a project funded by the European Investment Bank to help young entrepreneurs in the occupied...
May 11, 20121 min read


5 Key Skills for Successful Serial Entrepreneurs
I just finished leading a 3-day workshop in Toulouse, France for 15 entrepreneurs from the incubators and technology centres of the...
Oct 1, 20112 min read


A Three Minute Course in LEADERSHIP
Whether you are creating a business or creating an amazing life, you can benefit from thinking like an entrepreneur and by taking...
May 15, 20111 min read


DARING TO DREAM – The Entrepreneur Mindset
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving...
May 10, 20112 min read


VCs are from Mars, Entrepreneurs are from Venus
John Gray’s book Men are from Mars has the subtitle ”The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex”. To some entrepreneurs,...
Mar 28, 20113 min read


Inspiration – What is your calling?
I believe that we all have something special to offer this world. No matter who you are… No matter what skills you possess or don’t...
Mar 17, 20112 min read


Fall in Love with your Market, not with your Technology
Why do so many early-stage technology companies struggle? One reason is that they fall in love with their technology. Many entrepreneurs...
Mar 1, 20112 min read

How Can Entrepreneurs Keep Faith?
Something that all entrepreneurs will face sooner or later are setbacks, delays and rejection. It goes with the territory, yet one of...
Dec 31, 20102 min read

Why Do Dyslexics Make Great Entrepreneurs?
I spend a lot of time being curious about what makes some people great entrepreneurs. I recently found an article in BusinessWeek that...
Nov 25, 20102 min read


Kill the Cow
What will Norway live from when the North Sea oil wells run dry? I believe that some answers lie in empowering young entrepreneurs. The...
Nov 22, 20102 min read


Entrepreneur Self Sabotage
We all have 2 different minds. One is logical, the other is emotional and they don’t always agree with each other. Sometimes they will do...
Nov 18, 20102 min read


If there is no struggle, then there is no progress
“If there is no struggle, then there is no progress” The title of this blog is a quote from Fredrick Douglass. He was born a slave in...
Nov 14, 20102 min read


Great Networking Trick
Last week I accidentally discovered a great new networking trick. I was attending a lecture on Entrepreneurship in Norway. I walked into...
Oct 25, 20103 min read


Can Entrepreneurship Empower Palestinians?
Last week I was asked to join a group of coaches and investors to design and lead a program for Palestinian entrepreneurs from the West...
Oct 18, 20102 min read


Making the most of any situation
I did a workshop this week in Palermo, Italy for a group of MBA students and startup companies at the ARCA Technology Incubator. Palermo...
Sep 24, 20102 min read


More Serial Entrepreneurs?
Yesterday I led a workshop for 20 young entrepreneurs in Dusseldorf, Germany. I asked them if they knew the expression “serial...
Sep 17, 20102 min read


Fake It or Be Yourself?
Dare to be yourself. Sometimes we are so intent on pleasing the people we meet that we forget to be who we are. Good networking skills...
Sep 12, 20102 min read
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