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Negative Cost Selling Solar Arrays

School Board Pays Negative Cost for new Solar Panel Installations Rex Parris, Mayor of Lancaster, California doesn’t like to lose. It must come from his class-action lawyer background where he won almost $1 billion in claims for his clients and himself. Three years ago he decided to make the city where the sun (almost) always [...]

Things Every Tech Startup Needs to Know about Business Models

By Bruce M Firestone, B Eng (Civil), M Eng-Sci, PhD Abstract The Business Model is supplanting the Business Plan in many organizations. It not only describes the complete business ecosystem, it is a mechanism to discover profitable new relationships amongst stakeholder groups. The Business Model is more resilient than a plan and harder for competitors [...]

Generation Q

Film by prototypeD.org, Directed by Janak Alford My name is Janak Alford. I am an Architect, a hacker, an artist and a filmmaker. I run not-for-profit, Ottawa-based, underground film studio, prototypeD.org. About eight months ago and after reading an early version of his manuscript, I was captivated by the world of Quantum Entity created by [...]

Moneyball Movie

10 Things You Can Learn about Sports and Business from Moneyball What the Ottawa Senators did Right to Make the Playoffs 12 out of 13 Years Television’s Golden Age could be Ahead not Behind I am an Aaron Sorkin fan from his days writing A Few Good Men, The American President and, of course, The [...]

Great Art

At TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) 2011, U2′s Bono made an offhand, almost throwaway comment that stopped me in my tracks. He said something like this: ‘The difference between good, maybe even very good art and great art is HUGE.‘ Entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and artpreneurs would do well to keep this in mind. Steve Jobs was [...]

Looking Back to Look Forward

To find out if your startup is really going to be of any real use, take a few moments to perform an Einsteinian thought experiment. Ask: If my product or service had been around ever since Jan 27, 1756 (Mozart’s DOB), what would it be worth today? Imagine YouTube, for a moment, having been around [...]

CV Writing (Part 2)

Writing a CV is not as easy as you might think. As the saying goes, the shorter the resumé, the more important the person. It’s all part of building your personal brand which is incredibly important to entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and artpreneurs. Marketing (i.e., writing/creating your CV) creates a personal brand (for you) which creates trust [...]

IOE, Institute of Entrepreneurs

IOE5100, Advanced Business Models Exploriem.org’s Institute of Entrepreneurs presents IOE5100, Advanced Business Models for Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs and Artpreneurs, an MBA level course (For available dates and times as well as more information, please contact: Ms. Theresia Scholtes, tscholtes @ exploriem.org or @tclsholtes) Come study with Prof Bruce, a leader in designing and building business models [...]

Why I Wrote Quantum Entity

Here below is the dedication I wrote for the upcoming release of the first book in my new trilogy, Quantum Entity, which will be available later this year. Below that I include the Foreword. Dedication I wanted to write a great mid-21st Century story, a trilogy as it turned out, focused on five themes—entrepreneurship/science, science [...]

How, Why and Whether to Write a Media Release

Understanding the simple arithmetic of how blogs, Twitter, FB, Digg, Reddit and YouTube are cratering mainstream media In case you missed it, I added Exploriem.org’s media release about 2012 Bootstrap Awards winners to this blog. See below. Writing media releases is tricky to do and these days many people are saying that they are less [...]

On Leadership (Continued)

(Prepared for Professor Matthew Archibald’s 4th year Seminar on Leadership Development: Friday March 9, 2012 from 1 to 3 pm in DMS 4140) For more on this subject, please refer to: Defining Leadership, http://www.eqjournal.org/?p=2668. Corporate Culture, http://www.eqjournal.org/?p=2656. The Entrepreneur Skill Set: A to Z, http://www.eqjournal.org/?p=1274. On Leadership, http://www.eqjournal.org/?p=1155. 10 Things that Entrepreneurs can Learn from [...]

Old Milwaukee Guerrilla Marketing

How can you outperform a $3.5 million Super Bowl commercial with a $700 to $1,500 North Platte, Nebraska TV buy and a ridiculously badly produced ad? That’s what’s possible in the 21st century via social media. Old Milwaukee aired a 30-second spot on NBC affiliate KNOP-TV 2 in one of the smallest markets in the [...]