A Handful of Entrepreneurial Projects I’m Taking Part In

By Chris Nguyen | Published: September 23, 2011


I was supposed to update this more often than I have been, but when the workload begins piling on along with the incessant need to pay some modicum of lip service to networking and job search shenanigans, blogging takes a back seat to more important work. Hell, even my work over at my anime music website is on a higher priority, telling, especially when I’ve only been able to write one article in the last couple months (notwithstanding all that editing work I do when my writers submit articles or reviews).

Well, it’s been two months into my program at the Marshall School of Business. As much as business school provides a forum for learning, networking, and launching the next phase of your career, the biggest return on investment for me lies in the opportunity to work on oddball projects that will hopefully materialize into something meaningful. So, to see what I’ve been working on so far, read on! Read More »

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3 Takeaways from Serial Entrepreneur Joe Kaplan

By Chris Nguyen | Published: August 30, 2011

One of the best things about going to grad school is getting the kind of exposure to a lot of speakers who’ve been in the trenches and can relate their experiences and the hardships that went into forming their business. This is even more important for entrepreneurship courses, where budding entrepreneurs often feel like they’re battling a huge tide and could definitely use some pointers so that they can head in the right direction with their ventures and be somewhat cognizant of the challenges ahead.

Anyway, yesterday, serial entrepreneur Joe Kaplan delivered a talk about his experiences and how he went from working in the meat-packing business all the way to founding Innovative Merchant Solutions, a company focused on processing credit card transactions. Needless to say, that’s one disjointed journey and it sure made for a fascinating story. But what was even more fascinating were the common threads that seems to join pretty much every entrepreneur in existence. Read More »

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Strategy Detox – A Few Thoughts

By Chris Nguyen | Published: August 28, 2011

It’s only been about three days since the end of the Competitive Strategy course, but I feel that it’s sufficient time to do a post-mortem analysis on how the class went. It makes a good introductory blog post, and I figure if I’m going to start somewhere, anywhere with my writings, it might as well be here. Read More »

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