Company Updates
Last year, Extreme Entrepreneurship was selected to take part in the Stern Incubator, a program of NYU's Stern School of Business. I just finished writing a company update for them, which summarizes what Extreme Entrepreneurship is about and what we've been doing. Allow me to share it here:
Over the summer, Sheena Lindahl and Michael Simmons began working full time on Extreme Entrepreneurship. Their focused attention has been a catalyst for some exciting developments – from a more developed business model to the establishment of key partner relationships.
The company is focusing on three channels through which to fulfill its mission of helping students plan, prioritize, and pursue their vision for life: books, speaking engagements, and an online community. Significant progress has been made in each of these arenas.
Extreme Entrepreneurship is currently working with a book packager and literary agent, who is helping them to improve the quality of and relaunch of The Student Success Manifesto and The Student Success Manifesto Workbook. Additionally, the packager is assisting in the development and sale to a publisher of a flagship book and workbook, Extreme Entrepreneurship and All or Nothing, Now or Never, as well as an extended series of “pocket mentors” – practical guides to achieve the goals in one’s life plan.
In addition to speaking engagements that Michael and Sheena have been taking part in, they are currently planning The Extreme Entrepreneur Tour (EET) in partnership with Advantage Networks. EET is a collegiate entrepreneurship tour traveling to 150 college campuses throughout America starting in the Fall of 2006. EET brings together America’s top young entrepreneurs to spread the entrepreneurial mindset to their peers at a grass roots level. Young entrepreneurs who've made, earned, and sold their company for millions and/or made a huge impact before 25 have already been recruited as speakers.
Lastly, Extreme Entrepreneurship is in the process of developing an online community to be targeted at college students and purchased by colleges. The community features the ability for individuals to post and receive feedback on their life plan and goals, as well as to send surveys to help them get feedback on the tough questions they face on their journey. This community facilitates communication between individuals and their mentors and peers. Rahim Fazal, an MBA Candidate at Richard Ivey School of Business and young “dot-com millionaire” who started and sold his first business while completing his last year of high school, is assisting in the market research and creation of the community.
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September 04, 2005
Inc. Advertisement
Our advertisement came out in this month’s Inc. Magazine on page 106. We are grateful both to Inc. for their generous donation and Dan Blank for his great design work. Buy a copy and check it out!
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June 08, 2004
The Writer's Life
I'm not going to apologize
again for my sparse posts. To be completely honest - and that's what this blog
is about - I simply have not had the time or been motivated enough to find the
time to write entries, because when I am in the flow of writing I focus
completely on The Student Success Manifesto Workbook. So how is the progress
coming along on that? Well folks, we may actually be nearing the end of this
project. A few more months to go, no doubt, but in the final stretches for sure.
And then the blog will have all my writing to itself. No more having to share
writing time with a book! As we come to this final stretch, I will be in
desparate need for some reviewers who will give their feedback, edits, and
testimonials on the book before we send it to the professional editor.
Especially valuable are those Extreme Entrepreneurs out there who will use the
Workbook to create a Life Plan of their own! Reviewers will have 2-3 weeks to
give their comments and the reviewing process will begin two weeks from today.
If you are interested, please send an email to sheena@successmanifesto.com.
Those of you who give the most useful and constructive comments will be
mentioned in the acknowlegements section of the book! I look forward to hearing
from you!
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October 19, 2003
Workbook Progress
This week has been incredibly
productive (despite my lack of blog entries). I basically rewrote most of the
workbook, and as a result it has improved by about 90%. It is extremely painful
to trash something you have spent a lot of time on, but in writing and business,
Im finding thats the way it has to be done. Often a lot of the preliminary
work is not what is published or used as the final project. So in a sense, the
preliminary work (like my first draft of the workbook) really feels like a waste
of time. However, it was definitely essential to do that work in order to really
understand and clarify my ideas about what I wanted to come out in my writing.
After months of working on the workbook, I sat down and in one day wrote 40
pagesand those 40 pages were better than almost anything I had written before.
Now I feel comfortable with the base and Im working on tweaking minor details.
Perhaps it will not be so long until launch
