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Staffing Higher Ed Arts Entrepreneurship Programs
In this post I will refer to the 4 zones of entrepreneurial activity that I outlined in a former post. A quick refresher: Zone 1. Empowering Oneself, Personal Entrepreneurship Zone 2. Making a Career for Oneself (and sometimes others) Zone 3. Create a Recognizable, but New Not-for-Profit Entity, but with a Shared Purpose, Social and…
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Qualities of Arts Entrepreneurship Students
Today I was reminded, yet again, of the incredible imagination my entrepreneurship students at Drexel had, and continue to have. Check out Philadelphia Treks (http://philadelphiatreks.tumblr.com/) and Arts & Drafts Philly (https://www.facebook.com/artsanddraftsphilly). These are only 2 examples of many classrooms projects that have become real ventures. What I find most interesting, and compelling about working with…
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Characteristics of Student Arts Entrepreneurs
I’m often asked if arts entrepreneurs are different from regular entrepreneurs. Given that there is no such thing as a regular entrepreneur, and given that my empirical knowledge on the topic comes almost entirely from working with arts entrepreneurs, what I can offer is limited, albeit interesting. My comparison points come from extensive research, observing…
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Defining Entrepreneurship in the Arts
With the term, Arts Entrepreneurship, being thrown around, a bit recklessly, but with all good intentions, I feel compelled to define what I will call here “Zones of Definition.” My hope here is to clearly delineate different types of entrepreneurship, from individual empowerment to entity creation, and to help refine what is meant by social…
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Arts Entrepreneurship – -Student Work III
A superb business plan — WordofMouth.com, LLC Wednesday, June 6, 2012 Kristin Allard, Owner/Project Manager Mike Liu, Co-Owner/Web Developer wordofmouth@gmail.com I. Table of Contents I. Table of Contents 2 II. Executive Summary 3 III. General Company Description 4 IV. The Market 7 V. Marketing Plan 9 VII. Financial Plan 10 VIII. Timeline of Goals and…
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Arts Entrepreneurship — Student Work
My student, Tom Bonner, and I would like some feedback on his project. It follows. CR Spaces Tom W Bonner CR Spaces is a non-profit cultural and economic development corporation that acquires foreclosed on properties in blighted, neglected Philadelphia communities, renovates them, and then leases them out to burgeoning artists and arts and cultural organizations…
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Arts Entrepreneurship Student Work
My students’ final projects are beginning to take shape, and I have asked them if any would like to post them on my blog. The first one is from Juliet Verde. What makes this one so special (to me) is that is so perfectly emanates from her personality and experience. Philadelphiaist (Philadelphiaist.wordpress.com) will be…
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Arts Entrepreneurship Class – Assignment One
My students completed their first assignment (described in my previous post). Their work was superb: ideas were original, and plans were imaginative and comprehensive. After each team had made their presentation, I asked the class what they had learned from this assignment. Their spontaneous response was: HOW EASY IT WAS TO GENERATE ORIGINAL IDEAS! I…
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Arts Entrepreneurship, The Class
My spring term class at Drexel, Arts Entrepreneurship has begun. One clear difference this year is that all of the students (15) have come to the class with ideas that they want to pursue. I think this is the result of their asking me in advance, and those who took it last year what the…
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A Successful Music Entrepreneur
Please forgive the personal nature of this post, as the central character is my older daughter, but nonetheless she possesses exemplary qualities of a successful music (arts) entrepreneur. Check out the link to the article in the NY Times: (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/arts/music/face-the-music-teenage-alt-classical-ensemble.html)