Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneurialism’

Do Schools Stifle Entrepreneurs?

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

I’ll be posting photos from Fashion and Finance later this week. In the meantime, I wanted to share this great TED talk.

In the video from the conference in Edmonton earlier this year, entrepreneur Cameron Herold argues schools are stifling, rather than nurturing, entrepreneurialism and offers some solutions.  Follow the discussion on this TED talk or share your opinions below.

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Warren G on Financial Education

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Much of this Vanity Fair Q&A with rapper Warren G (of Regulate fame) is  predictably not safe for little eyes, but we couldn’t go without sharing one of his answers. To a question about different lyrical approaches to wealth in rap, Warren G replies:

I think you should save the money for your kids and grandkids and stuff like that. But it ain’t really a bad thing to party every now and again. If you’re makin’ a lot of money, there ain’t nothin’ wrong with partying and makin’ yourself feel good and enjoying what you worked hard for. I ain’t mad at those artists rappin’ about money. But I also think we gotta teach these kids that money ain’t what it’s all about. You gotta start being a businessman or a businesswoman. Instead of just poppin’ open bottles of Cristal, we should be teaching them about business and stuff like that. I don’t just mean in terms of the hip-hop community. I mean blacks, whites, Latinos, everybody. As a generation, we need to start leading these kids down the right path.

From here, the interview quickly turns into a mind-boggling (and already blogged about) nonsequiter, but it’s nice to hear musicians encouraging fiscal responsibility and entrepreneurship.

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