Flush the Toilet: Young Entrepreneurs

If you’re like me, you always have a calculator by your side. Math homework and grueling calculus exams aside, the calculator has become a trusted friend over the years. Calculators are great for entrepreneurs in many ways, especially when it comes to playing around with numbers and figures of your startup. Fun stuff, I tell […]

When you think about entrepreneurship the last thing you’re probably thinking about is art class. Would you believe me if I told you that actually drawing out your ideas is a major factor in successfully implementing your services, products, whatever it is that you’re thinking about creating.
There you are, sitting in the park with your […]

tin•ker
n. To manipulate unskillfully or experimentally
As an entrepreneur, you probably like to tinker. You probably like to ask a bunch of questions to the point that you get annoying. You might like to experiment with different machines by taking them apart. Or you may even like to take peoples’ sentences apart while they are speaking […]

Ever get one of those ideas that just hit you so damn hard? They tend to come at night before you go to sleep and they leave you restless in bed sorting out all the little intricacies and subtleties of the novel idea.
It’s like you mind goes on auto-drive and just starts mapping-out the idea […]

What helps you be creative? What unlocks your imagination? What opens your mind wide open? For many people its things like: smoking pot (or drug of choice), playing music, or simply just talking to people who ooze creativity.
As an entrepreneur it is vital to stay on top of your creativity game. Whatever it is that […]

Hmmm… I wonder why she decided to wear the red dress instead of the blue dress she specifically bought last year in preparation for this event? She is mysteriously calling me Dave when she usually calls me David. I think that I smell a hint of polo cologne on her neck…or maybe it’s just a […]

I am starting a new business that you’ll all be hearing about over the next few weeks. I just wrote a small article — Only Takes A Sheet — at Dorm Room Biz explaining my process of brainstorming and generating ideas for starting a business.
Here’s a taste:
A few days a go I walked over to […]

A disruptive technology is a new technological innovation, product, or service that eventually overturns the existing dominant technology in the market, despite the fact that the disruptive technology is both radically different from the leading technology and that it often initially performs worse than the leading technology according to existing measures of performance. A disruptive […]

In this world there are so many people who simply just like being the same as everybody else and like doing things like everybody else. I think that it’s pretty cool to be different and try different things — separating yourself from everybody else for a change. I really think that this separation can help […]

This entrepreneur gets paid to brainstorm for other businesses – what a great way to make a living.
Anand Chhatpar, one of the Top 5 Young Entrepreneurs as named by BusinessWeek, is interviewed by CNBC India on a show called “Young Turks.” Checkout the video here.