This is where vision gets its boots dirty. Here you’ll find the blueprints, pivots, late nights, and launch days. Entrepreneurship is the build—the gritty process of turning a spark into something real. While entrepreneurialism is dreaming in color, entrepreneurship is mixing the cement and laying the bricks. It’s strategy, systems ⚙️, funding 💰, and figuring it out one notebook 📓 at a time. Here, we unpack how bold ideas grow legs—and what it really takes to scale with them. Put vision and action together—and growth can take off. 🚀
Why I Love Waves and Snow 🌊 ❄️
Snowfields ❄️ and ocean waves 🌊 are made of the same wild element—water that moves, shifts, destroys, creates. This story explores how riding both teaches
PART 1: Learn To Think In Symbols First
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Fail Forward > Iteration: The Art and Science of Digital Marketing
Thomas Edison didn’t fail 10,000 times—he iterated. Each experiment taught him something new. Today’s entrepreneurs do the same through digital feedback loops, using analytics and
Creative Entrepreneurialism: Riding The Wave
Great businesses aren’t just built on plans—they’re born from energy. This post maps the full creative-entrepreneurial cycle: from raw vision to structured execution. It introduces
Entrepreneur Profile: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Two Maine entrepreneurs, a seven-minute video, and a lifetime of lessons. How Fred Forsley and George Denney taught me that the true value in business
Sharpening The Saw: Finding the Time to Learn and Grow
We all talk about working harder, but what about getting sharper? In this post I dig into Stephen Covey’s idea of “sharpening the saw” —
Fail Fast, Fail Forward: What Skiing Taught Me About Entrepreneurship
My first venture? A lemonade stand at the end of my parents’ driveway in Brunswick, Maine. You’d be surprised how much that experience still teaches
You Can Fence A Cow, Not A Wild Thing
Over the years, I’ve dealt with people who think they can corral creative entrepreneurs with contracts, bylaws, and legal maneuvering as if creative energy responds
Sharpening The Saw: What a Camera, A Moose, And A Modest Inheritance Taught Me
True wealth isnÕt what we inherit Ñ itÕs what we learn. Every tool, challenge, or new skill sharpens our mind and spirit. Like KerryÕs dad
Entrepreneurship: Are You The Chicken Man?
Have you ever had something your worked on for months kicked out from underneath you? I have. In this post, I give you strategies for
Rails On Edge vs. Send It: Skiing and Entrepreneurship
I’ve had a few readers ask what I mean by rails on edge. Some assume it s about unbridled risk. It’s not. Definition: On modern
Small Business Accounting Made Simple: Lemonade & Candles
A Family Business Story In 2004, my wife started a scented candle company. For almost twenty years it was part of our family’s life. We
