Apr 08
Entrepreneur’s Toolkit: Learning and Development
The nature of bootstrapping requires every entrepreneur to fill multiple roles at once. Often, one or more of these roles is outside of the entrepreneur’s previous experience and comfort zone. Whether its industry knowledge, technical experience, are core business skills that you need to build, it helps to have some tools to rely on to build a working knowledge of a new topic fast. That’s why our first ever Entrepreneur’s Toolkit focuses on learning and development. Here are some great resources to help you and your team bootstrap knowledge:
- Academic Earth’s Entrepreneurship Section: Academic Earth is a great resource for aspiring learners in any field. The site aggregates courses and lecture videos from top univiersities, including Harvard, MIT, and Standford. Academic Earth’s Entrepreneurship Section has over 800 lecture videos to choose from, including topics like creativity and innovation, IT, strategy, finance, and leadership.
- YouTube EDU: YouTube has rounded up another great selection of videos to choose from on their EDU channel, including videos from Harvard Business and The Wharton School.
- Google Code: If you’re working on a technology-related startup and want to have, at a minimum, a working knowledge of programming or scripting, Google Code is an excellent resource and includes courses, videos, and a community to help you when you have questions.
- The Personal MBA: If books are more your style, head over to The Personal MBA. The site’s business-book-recommender and reading list will help you find the resources you need.
August 20th, 2009 at 11:42 am
I think it’s great that the first ever Entrepreneur’s Toolkit focuses on learning and development. As an entrepreneur myself, I value learning and development as one of the most integral factors of my success.
As the publisher and co-owner of the Collegiate Performance Magazine, my sole reason for moving forwards with this professional development magazine was to help inspire, motivate, and educate young professionals (and myself of course!) through the expertise and professional vantage point of the youngest, most successful individuals in the world! Here, at http://CollegiatePerformanceMagazine.com, you will find an abundance of tools and resources for young professionals from high caliber young professionals like Ephren Taylor, the youngest African-American CEO, Mayor Hammons, the youngest Mayor in American history, Tim Tebow, arguably the greatest NCAA athlete ever, and many more!
The Upwardly Mobile network and I are not the only ones advocating for learning and develpment…many other successful individuals promote learning as a crucial aspect of our success. I just listened to a podcast the other day by Zig Ziglar entitled “Investing in yourself” that I recommend! Also, check out my Performance & Success Advice Blog which is a FREE forum to share Success Advice. On the note of this topic, I will recommend my post “Invest in Yourself!” This can be found at http://performancesuccessadvice.blogspot.com/2009/07/performance-success-advice-blog-post-11.html
Thanks for listening!
Kind Regards,
Jeff G