ideas
A Good Idea If You’re In London
Hit up the Good Ideas Salon put on by PSFK.
Check out the speaker list and get your tickets over at the site linked above. I’d be pumped to see the Dopplr dude and “Ruby Pseudo” for sure. But what I think will be interesting more than any one individual is the percentage of people with the title, “Founder,” who will be talking. Get your learn on from those with experience launching ideas. That’s valuable in this climate, especially. And Piers has done it up right with conferences in the past as well as the recent morning salons here in NYC.
B-fore You Go to B-School, Consider This
Here’s an interesting idea that seemed worth a post rather than just a delicious bookmark. Seth Godin is offering an alternative to Business School - spend 6 months in his office. It’s an “apprenticeship/not-internship/graduate school/charm school track-changing opportunity.” Yes, apprenticeship slash grad school…and not the other way around. And yes, that Zoolander reference probably wouldn’t fly in an application to his program or any of the prestigious universities from which he may steal talent. More probable than getting the MBA-seeking to reconsider, he’s created something motivating for the entrepreneurial path-changer. The idea is great, the timing is even better, and the price is best—it’s free. If I hadn’t found something real and if I wasn’t so into keeping it real here at W+K NY, I’d definitely give it some serious consideration.
UPDATE: My buddy, who is likely headed to a top ranked business school next Fall, passed on this site to get prospective B-schoolers take on Other Seth’s offer. Also, note to planners, the Business Week Business School forums are usually filled with great opinions, emotion, and insight. Last note, my friend did not want a “shout-out” on the blog because he’s “trying to stay as much under the radar online as possible until this whole silly business school process is over…interviews and such.” Now there’s a new, FREE perspective for us bloggers.