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Handel hits the road

January 6, 2012 by
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Another happy burst of entrepreneurship -- Daria van den Bercken hitched her piano to a truck, and played Handel on the streets of Amsterdam. And with such happy results. People smiled, ran after her, took her photo, clearly enjoying it all. Daria plays wonderfully, which of course doesn't hurt. But it's her happy spirit that -- if you ask me -- really makes this go. Not that it would work if the music and her playing weren't so terrific, but that's not enough to make a hit in public. People have to like you.  And Daria -- whom I had … [Read more...]

01/6/12 12:11 PM | filed under: entrepreneurship |

Promoting with gusto

January 5, 2012 by
From a reader

Yesterday I posted an email from conductor Rebecca Smithorn, about the chamber orchestra she calls Ad Hoc (because Ad Hoc is how it functions -- informally, taking things as they come, and telling the audience exactly what accidents led to each performance being what it is). An entrepreneurial enterprise, if ever I've seen one. Especially if you think -- as I do -- that an entrepreneur needs to create something distinctive. Today I'll offer a much longer email from Chris Dulgan, a South African pianist, who -- as he explains -- conjured an … [Read more...]

01/5/12 9:10 AM | filed under: Uncategorized |

“What if we call it what it is?”

January 4, 2012 by
From a reader

I raved yesterday about the stories readers tell me about their adventures as entrepreneurs. So, to help start 2012 on a happy note, here's another one, from Rebecca Smithorn, a conductor in Rochester, NY. I love what she emailed, which I'm posting here with her permission. And at the beginning, where Rebecca thanks me -- no, I'm not preening, when I pass even that part of her email on to you. The point isn't that I gave her what turned out to be good advice. No, the point is that any of us, when we reach out to someone else, might hit the … [Read more...]

01/4/12 9:00 AM | filed under: entrepreneurship, from readers |

Relaunched again

January 2, 2012 by
My son Rafa -- first smile on camera

The new year has come, and after two months happily devoted to our new baby Rafael, it's time to get back to work. Though not without a Rafa photo. Here he is, smiling, the first of his smiles ever caught on camera. He's just a little past 10 weeks old as I'm writing this. Such a darling! Although I see -- looking back at 2011 -- that I haven't been idle here. Starting on October 4 (11 days before Rafa was born) -- I did 18 posts that I've grouped under the category entrepreneurship, and which got a lot of comment. To see them, click the … [Read more...]

01/2/12 5:49 PM | filed under: entrepreneurship, personal |
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