Category Archives: Entrepreneuring

Emails to a Young Entrepreneur: Conceiving – The Cosmos of a New Venture

Posted on July 7, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 116 of Self Quarantine             Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  132,000 The Cosmos of the New Venture One of the challenges of the entrepreneur is learning how to make progress even when feeling lost in … Continue reading →

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Emails to a Young Entrepreneur: Applying Conceiving

Posted on July 6, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 115 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  132,000 Applying Conceiving Starting a new venture is an experiential process as Sarasvathy describes. The good news about the effectual … Continue reading →

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Emails to a Young Entrepreneur: Conceiving

Posted on July 5, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 114 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  132,000 Six years ago, I wrote a draft of a book that was a takeoff on Rilke’s Letters to a … Continue reading →

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What is a book? Part 4: Monetizing

Posted on July 3, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 112 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  131,000 “The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.” – Benjamin Disraeli … Continue reading →

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Intertwingling of Narrative and Computing

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Skip Walter

Day 76 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  102,000 [NOTE:  These numbers are staggering to me and life changing.  My thoughts and prayers are with all of the … Continue reading →

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Business 101 for Designers

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Skip Walter

The following is an early draft of what will be a sequence of posts.  I am still struggling with how to bring business alive for individual contributors and managers who only have their one area of expertise in a company … Continue reading →

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Emails to a Young Entrepreneur – The Dialog Begins

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Skip Walter

From: Mikhail Rostov mikhail@emailstoskip.com To: Skip Walter skip@emailstoskip.com Professor Skip, As I was sitting in front of my locker staring at the detritus of my three year combined MBA and Master of Design program at the Institute of Design, I was deep … Continue reading →

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What does a good one look like?

Posted on December 24, 2014 by Skip Walter

Whenever we sit down to discuss an existing project or a new concept, my colleague, Scott Parris, pretty quickly asks “what does a good one look like?” Sometimes the question is in relationship to a startup we are working with, … Continue reading →

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The Lost Art of Selling B2B – the $1B meeting

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Skip Walter

My father was a salesman. I grew up vowing I would (or could) never do what my father did. He was a “hail fellow well met” kind of guy and always had a bevy of jokes to get and keep … Continue reading →

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Discovering Your Inner Entrepreneur

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Skip Walter

A few months ago, Patrick Whitney and Matt Mayfield invited me to teach an intercession course on Entrepreneuring at the Institute of Design (ID) at the Illinois Institute of Technology. I figured that by March 3, Chicago would be out … Continue reading →

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