Caribbeanprenuers: The True Multi-Passionate Entrepreneurs
Marie Forleo defines herself as a multi-passionate entrepreneur and if you listen to her story of how she arrived at her current position as one of the leaders in the entrepreneurship space you understand why the title fits. Her story sounds like many I have heard across the region and even my own. Caribbean people […]
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Winging It: The Caribbeanpreneurs Strategy
Caribbeanpreneurs are so good at winging it. I am purposely picking on us although I know people make the same mistakes globally. We love the energy from flying by the seat of our pants. How else are we going to celebrate over drinks or chat up our friends about our struggle if we are coasting […]
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Why Caribbean Parents Aren’t Raising the Next Mark Zuckerberg
It’s 2017 and I swear babies come out of the womb knowing how to handle a smartphone and hack your encrypted iPad. Can’t figure out how to use filters on Instagram or add a doggy face to Snapchat? Ask a five-year-old. How are we preparing our children to not only manipulate someone else’s creation but […]
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After the Funding: How Will Caribbeanpreneurs Thrive?
The Caribbean entrepreneurship space has been quite busy for the past seven years. Millions of Euros and Canadian dollars have been invested to help stir up a desire for enterprise development and to strengthen existing structures to improve local economies. What is the strategy for continuity once funding is no longer being designated for Caribbean […]
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Why Your Communication Strategy Failed
Write two press releases and call me in the morning. That seems to be the prescription with which many public relations and media professionals handle campaigns and it is so far from what is necessary to garner attention in today’s very noisy marketplace. Here are a few reasons your communication strategy failed. Your end goal […]
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Surviving Your First Pitch Competition
First published on LinkedIn I am not sure what made me do it. I don’t do competitions. That may seem like a crazy thing for an entrepreneur to say but competing with others isn’t my thing. I love being an entrepreneur to create my own stuff and to be in a space where I don’t […]
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Caribbeanpreneurs Must Embrace Failure
Fail forward and fast. You hear that mantra regularly these days but that is not a mantra that most Caribbeanpreneurs want to embrace. First off, your parents most likely wanted you to get a “normal job” like working for the government, in a bank, as a lawyer or doctor. You really can’t afford to fail […]
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Write So Your Joy is Full
What’s the dream? To be a best selling author? To turn your books into a movie franchise? What’s the dream that is stirring the desire to write? I have found if my motivation is for anything other than my own pleasure it is often difficult to sustain the discipline of writing. I write for me […]
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Worthy to Write
A colleague recently expressed concern that she did not feel worthy to write the book she had inside of her. I was somewhat surprised to hear her say this and at the same time I wasn’t. I knew the feeling well. I am very familiar with that conversation. It comes out sounding like a favorite […]
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Love’s Sweet Joy on Sale this Weekend
It’s a long weekend here on Montserrat and so I thought I would make it easy for some of you booklovers. Love’s Sweet Joy is on sale until Monday night for your kindle. Click here to get yours for $2.99.
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