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We held a series of three webinars targeted at Irish entrepreneurs during the early states of the COVID-19 lockdown. With almost 2,000 registrants its popularity exceeded expectations. The overwhelming priority at the beginning of the pandemic was public health but, at some stage, this will abate and the next challenge will be rebuilding the economy. Entrepreneurs and innovators will play a vital role. So, what did we hear from the community and what help could we offer?

In the early stages of my entrepreneurial journey, I used to think that getting a product to market as quickly as possible, even without knowing my customers first, was the path to success. Inundated as we are with such popular wisdom, we sometimes take blitzscaling too literally, jumping into a market’s deep end without even looking to see what’s down below.

The company is you, and you better take it very personally. You should not be looking to maximize how much money you make this year you should be trying to build as many skills ad you can because they will pay off for the rest of your lives.

Another day in self-isolation and signs are that this is not going to end soon so here are some thoughts on what we can do that is constructive as entrepreneurs? (As just humans, we should do all the other things to flatten the curve like social distancing, washing hands, etc.).

My journey as an online learner in the MITx Entrepreneurship 101 course on edX marked for me the beginning of a progressive discovery of the power and importance of community.  There is a deep joy that can be experienced through building inspired and respectful collaborations, based on reciprocity and the feeling of something being moved forward together. Although working with one another is sometimes terribly challenging and certainly always complex, it might ultimately be the only effective…

One of the most recent lessons in letting go and surrendering to what wants to happen in the community was the #24hours24steps prototype: an uninterrupted, 24-hour-long video meeting, designed to be open to all members of the MBA² community.

The dynamics that shape judgment and behaviour have always been in the spotlight of managerial curiosity, since our choices take place within a vast horizon of options, and especially for deliverables with high intrinsic and extrinsic value, like education.

One of the most recent lessons in letting go and surrendering to what wants to happen in the community was the #24hours24steps prototype: an uninterrupted, 24-hour-long video meeting, designed to be open to all members of the MBA² community.

Recently, a colleague from Stanford sent me a link to an article that he had run across in the Silicon Republic. Now I must admit, that is not a publication I usually read but I was happy when I saw MIT EDP alum Mary Rodgers smiling picture at the top of the article. Mary is an entrepreneurship amplifier in Galway’s (Ireland) Portershed. The title of the article was “Founders need to articulate and sell the value of change to customers” which was nice but I really wanted to hear what else Mary…