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Editor’s Note: I think my Avett Brothers music count is getting high but this one, off their “Carpenter” album is amazing. My son, Timmy, and I have declared this song as our new life “theme”.
Editor’s note: Our foundation has enjoyed our work in my little town, Ashtabula, since 2009 that started with loans to five entrepreneurs. We didn’t know we were doing a lot of the stuff Mr. Feld recommends in his book so it’s very rewarding to learn we followed a similar path to the work done in Boulder, CO, one of America’s most famous entrepreneurial ecosystems. We’ll remain a “poor man’s Boulder” but will continue to happily follow their lead, now more specifically having discovered this book and their movement, Startup Revolution. The most important part of this book, good for ANY business venture, is Brad’s down to earth philosophical but very actionable advice, such as: “Leaders of startup communities must be entrepreneurs. Everyone else is a feeder into the startup community.” Thanks to Robert Hatta for recommending (and buying) me this book.
My partners allow me to hang out with our restaurant management one half day each quarter. We do an interactive workshop, always related to broader topics than day-to-day restaurant operations.
Editor's note: “Soulshine” by Allman Brothers is a very meaningful song to me – and perhaps to you too.
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Editor's note: It is rather easy and enticing to take a cynical, broad brush to the Morgan Stanleys and Goldman Sachs of the world and paint any of their efforts to do good as laughable and self-serving. With that said, impact investing both intrigues and inspires me to learn and do more.
Editor's Note: A poignant read, comparable to A Catcher in the Rye, a book that's so true and raw, a book that all adolescents, and anyone who's ever been an adolescent, can relate to.
Excerpt: “So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that can be.”
"Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today; that I will be tomorrow."
On Wednesday, I saw one of my heroes speak to a group of several hundred people. He’s Father Bob Welsh, a Jesuit priest who led St. Ignatius High School into its current prominence as one of America’s top high schools. Choose academic, sports or service standards and St. Ignatius Cleveland will rank among the top in the country.
