GUIDE: How to do a Successful Event in Boston

Greenhorn Connect prides itself on having the most comprehensive calendar and filters through the top suggested events to attend each week on our weekly newsletter. The following is a quick guide to help make your event successful.

What To Do In College To Prepare To Be An Entrepreneur

Thanks to all the press embracing technology, the movie the Social Network and the emergence of the consumer web and mobile apps, entrepreneurship is in the spotlight again. With that comes the interest and excitement of students in college. You can see it on all the campuses around Boston as seemingly every school has an entrepreneurship club, a startup mentoring program and hackfests. These programs do everything from inspiring new entrepreneurs to coaching them through their first venture.

The problem is, the odds of you being the next Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Clerico, or Aaron Levie is statistically insignificant.  What's more likely is that you can lay a foundation in college for an amazing career as an entrepreneur that later in life becomes a successful founder. Here's a few tips for making the most of college to prepare for being a great entrepreneur.

Book Review: Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki

Is it possible to get your MBA in a book? Maybe not, but Guy Kawasaki's book, "The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything" is definitely a must read for anyone starting a company.  This book has advice for you at just about any point in your startup from idea phase, to pitching, to executing.  

 

It's hard to believe how much value is packed into this book. Having just read it for the first time, I found I appreciated it a lot more than I might have in the past, because some of the lessons I've already learned and so I can really understand how good the advice is from my own experiences.  

 

There's waaay too much great stuff to cover in a quick review, so I'd like to just highlight 3 lessons that I pulled out of the text that stand out.

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