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Posted by kari.petroschmidt This is a part of what we want to explore this semester with the Audacious profiles. The stories surrounding the start-ups that have gone through this program before – the passion, fears, articulations – and how they can motivate, inform and inspire us in regards to our own endeavours. For now, here’s a…
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Posted by kari.petroschmidt I was a voracious reader for as long as I could remember. I read everything I could. I went through the horse stories stage, the dog stories stage, the fairy tale stage, the scary fairy tale stage, and then one day ended up in Sci-fi and Fantasy. I ended up there because…
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19 Jul Posted by kari.petroschmidt It was 3am and I had to be in the city for my ‘real job’ in three hours and thirty minutes. I gulped back the last of my cold coffee and pulled the homemade respirator over my face. The filters were long dead but I figured it was better than…
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Posted by kari.petroschmidt A couple of years ago, a movie critic named Rodger Ebert wrote an article about why he thought that games could never be art. It sparked outrage from the gaming community, orders of magnitude larger than what he expected. As a result, he ended up conceding that games could in fact, be…
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Posted by kari.petroschmidt I slid my seat all the way forward and hunched over the steering wheel screaming wildly at Carlos to throw himself onto the dashboard, “THE FRONT WHEELS ARE LIFTING OFF THE FUCKING ROAD! I CAN’T STEER CARLOS! GET FORWARD, GET FORWARD! The $200,000 uninsured sail that was bricked up in the back…
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What is design? Having just completed a design degree and now working as a designer, this is a question I get a lot. I am constantly attempting to explain to people what it is that I actually do and was being taught for the last four years. Often the immediate assumption is that I mean…
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01 Aug Posted by kari.petroschmidt Last week we had the official launch of the 63 Clyde St space and also introduced the new Entrepreneurs in Residence. The house was packed and it was great to have a sense of the different individuals and institutions that surround this program. I talked about my conversation with Logan…
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Posted by kari.petroschmidt If following your bliss was easy, everyone would be doing it. At least that is what I keep telling myself while I try to follow mine. For me this includes writing Sci-Fi/Fantasy, going back to University to study German and bass guitar, and last but not least, starting Throw Like a Girl. …
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Posted by kari.petroschmidt So where were we… right, okay so you have an idea for a business, a burning little nucleus of uncertain fate smoldering away in the back of your mind. Only, it’s fate is certain if you do nothing about it, CERTAIN DEATH; and certain regret, and the “woulda, shoulda, couldas” that inevitably…
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Posted by kari.petroschmidt This is Helen Keller – otherwise known to me as the woman I did my very first book report on way back in second grade. I say…
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Posted by kari.petroschmidt A business plan must conform to the same criteria. Vaughan Evans (“Writing a Business Plan – How to win backing to start up or grow your business”, Pearson, 2011) says a business plan must especially be clear on risks and written so as to convince potential backers and investors. There is also…
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Posted by kari.petroschmidt Louis Brown t was already going to be a tight squeeze to meet Louis at our planned rendezvous time of 3 P.M, and when he texted me around noon asking to move it to 2 P.M I cringed, but agreed. There is something honest and delicate in his nature that one simply…