It is difficult to imagine our world without Steve Jobs. He was just getting started, enjoying a 10 year run that redefined music consumption, tele-communications and personal computing. While friends and family grieve the loss of Steve Jobs the person, his countless “followers” grieve…
I quit my day job about two years ago to launch this business. I knew that “networking” was going to be part of the growth strategy, but I had never really done it before. I didn’t have to (or so I thought). This is a…
In this Magis Ventures executive roundtable event, Harold Hegg – Director of New Business Development at Thrivent Financial, discusses the role of informal networks and social capital as a key, yet often overlooked, ingredient in driving change in the workplace. Short Version [~5 minutes]…
I love trees. I think they are my favorite life-form after humans. In college I had the opportunity to plant many trees as part of an environmental project. These were small seedlings about 6-12 inches in size – helpless twigs that were vulnerable to…
When I enrolled in business school several years back, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Contrary to my trepidation about being fed the “corporate” way of doing things, I ended up learning many new concepts that were, shall I say, pleasantly surprising. One…