This is the most underrated skill you’ll probably never get taught https://entrepidinc.news/underrated-skill-never-taught #news
Most people don’t know how to operate in solitude or deal with boredom. But learning how to do so can help us be better people.
How Coachella and an Old Postal Truck Helped Launch Ice Cream Brand Coolhaus https://entrepidinc.news/coolhaus-ice-cream #startup
The founders of the beloved sweet treat started small and scrappy — and now they’re ready to take over the ice cream aisle.
In the Women Entrepreneur series My First Moves, we talk to founders about the pivotal moment when they decided to turn their business idea into a reality — and the first steps they took to make that happen.
Natasha Case has long been fascinated by the intersection of food and design. While studying architecture and design, Case was always pulled in the direction of food, and saw it as a medium to talk about design and create additional access around the discipline. But after graduation, a promising job at Disney took up her professional attention, and the meeting point between food and design became little more than a hobby.
Then, a shift: A chance meeting with Freya Estreller, who would become her co-founder, as well as the 2008 recession, helped Case take the leap into entrepreneurship, and she launched the hand-crafted ice cream brand, Coolhaus, in 2009.
Ten years later, the Los Angeles-based company is a fan favorite brand, with a national retail presence, a seemingly endless collection of flavors and big plans for the future. Here how Case turned a hobby into a budding empire.
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Why This Tech Company Hires People With No Experience https://entrepidinc.news/tech-hires-no-experience #tech
Having years of experience sounds like a resume booster that could put you ahead of others when you’re looking for a job, but the tech platform JumpCrew intentionally recruits people without a sales background to sell its social media marketing services.
Launched in 2016, cofounder David Pachter says his company’s initial inclination was to recruit people with as much experience as possible.
“We couldn’t afford to hire many of them, so we decided to get as many experienced people as we could and then blend them with folks who were talented enough to pick it up,” he says.
Surprisingly, the employees who had no experience were outperforming those who had 10 to 15 years of sales experience, says Pachter.
First published in the Central Penn Business Journal
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With anguished eyes, my clients sit across the coffee table from me.
They too often and too consistently tell me that they once truly believed in their leader (or their teammate, or their employee or their board president). They say that they once would have scaled mountains for them.
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