Quickminds Blog

May 11, 20121 min read

Off The Beaten Path

Over the last year I have been working on a project funded by the European Investment Bank to help young entrepreneurs in the occupied...

Mar 17, 20112 min read

Inspiration – What is your calling?

I believe that we all have something special to offer this world. No matter who you are… No matter what skills you possess or don’t...

Dec 31, 20102 min read

How Can Entrepreneurs Keep Faith?

Something that all entrepreneurs will face sooner or later are setbacks, delays and rejection. It goes with the territory, yet one of...

Nov 25, 20102 min read

Why Do Dyslexics Make Great Entrepreneurs?

I spend a lot of time being curious about what makes some people great entrepreneurs. I recently found an article in BusinessWeek that...

Nov 22, 20102 min read

Kill the Cow

What will Norway live from when the North Sea oil wells run dry? I believe that some answers lie in empowering young entrepreneurs. The...

Nov 18, 20102 min read

Entrepreneur Self Sabotage

We all have 2 different minds. One is logical, the other is emotional and they don’t always agree with each other. Sometimes they will do...

Aug 23, 20103 min read

Connecting the Dots

Like most children, I loved drawing Connect the Dots pictures. I can envision myself staring at a new and particularly complex page of...

Feb 16, 20103 min read

Laid-off?… then Become An Entrepreneur

These days, the workers in the Northeast of England have the feeling that things have not been worse since the famine and plagues of the...

Feb 9, 20103 min read

Coaching Athletes vs. Coaching Entrepreneurs

All professional athletes have coaches. No serious competitor would attempt to compete at peak level without one. A coach is not just...

Jan 19, 20102 min read

The Entrepreneur Mad Hatter

In order to keep my business afloat I need to be skilled with a number of different tasks such as: Marketing (including web, CMS,...

Jan 7, 20102 min read

What every entrepreneur should learn from Abraham Lincoln

So what is the key entrepreneurial trait that differentiates the other 10 percent? No, it is not that these entrepreneurs are smarter,...

Dec 22, 20093 min read

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

If you are an entrepreneur, then be bold. Don’t settle for a safe and easy startup. They usually die. Don’t be afraid to tackle the...

Dec 10, 20092 min read

The perfect ski run

So why do they bother to do this? Does mental practice really affect performance? Is this just silly “positive thinking” jargon or does...

Nov 18, 20093 min read

Be Careful What You Believe

In 1900 automobiles existed and most people had seen them, but they were very expensive and available only for the very rich. Henry Ford...

Oct 17, 20094 min read

Throw away 1000 years of history

I was a speaker at a venture event in Trento this week that was sponsored by the local government and businesses. This region is making a...