Archive for the ‘Education’ Category


Putting the Pieces Together – Teens, Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses, and Unemployment

Everyone is up in arms about the unemployment rate in the US being around 10%.
One of the best ways to create jobs is to encourage small business growth.  According to the Small Business Association (SBA), small businesses:

Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.
Employ just over half of all private sector employees.
Pay 44 percent of total [...]

My Visit to James Madison University

After a couple of awesome presentations at Skidmore College, I was a bit bummed to hear that Professor Wales, my good friend and teacher of the class, had accepted a position at James Madison University in Virginia.  I had enjoyed going in to speak both semesters and thought that the two of us had a [...]

Skidmore Round 2

I gave my “Entrepreneurship as a Career Choice” talk again yesterday at Skidmore.  Much like last semester, it was an amazing experience.  I revised my presentation a bit, and overall I thought I did a good job.   More than that though, it’s just an awesome feeling giving a talk and knowing that people are genuinely [...]

Thank You Skidmore!

“Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don’t, then you are wasting your time on Earth”.
-Roberto Clemente
I mentioned back in August that I was invited to speak to an Entrepreneurship and Small Business class at Skidmore College in Saratoga, NY (about a 45 minute drive north for [...]

Times Are Changing

Back when I was in high school, we barely used computers.  Other than typing up reports and a little bit for research, I don’t think I really needed a computer in any of my non-elective classes.  I graduated in 2000.  A lot has changed since then.
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