The Startup Showcase

It's often said that an entrepreneur will work 80 hours a week so they won't have to work 40 hours for someone else. Time is very important to entrepreneurs, that's why the organizations that engage them should adopt a clear strategy to ensure that their not wasting their time. There are t hree keys to successful entrepreneurial engagement that organizations need to adopt, inform, engage and empower. Inform: This is where you want to be intimate and intelligent. Get close to your entrepreneurs, talk to them. Uncover what they are struggling with and what information you can impart to help them. B e sure to utilize your Pitch network page for webinars/google hangouts and live chats  within your pitch network window. Use the about section to post links and videos to create a reservoir of information for your community.  Make it a practice to allow entrepreneurs to have a say in your programming.  Engage: This is where you let your dynamic community you organized...

What does it mean to be service oriented and what does that have to do with cultivating a community? Our lives are filled with a constant stream of dualities, and moral dilemmas that help to shape our point of view. We experience  good and evil, light and dark, right and wrong, truth and falsehood and communities and the non-community. This where our experiences of community dangerously leads us into a failed social arrangement that marginalizes differences and servers diversity in people and in thinking. More importantly, it assumes that because of commonality that community exist. Commonality is a static view of "community", predicated on similarities we have with other people. Which mistakenly leads us on a path of assumption which can dangerously lead to disharmony, obstruction and loss. Acknowledging similarities among people is a great way to begin to form healthy relations, but there is another dynamic at play when it comes to community. Community like ot...