Winding up the NACCE conference in Newport Beach, which I've attended this week, I had dinner with a colleague from Santa Monica College. He was giddy about the takeaways from my session (I spoke about - you got it flash briefings). But in listening to him and his teaching style, I felt like I needed to take a page from him, and just be a little more patient.

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Today your humble narrator gets to speak at the National Association of Community Colleges for Entrepreneurship in Newport Beach, California. As marketers, marketing profs and entrepreneurs, Marc Boivin and David Gaudet recognize their role in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and provide this daily podcast as a regular contribution.

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We use a familiar family ritual to break down Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

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When Car2Go announced it was pulling out of five cities in North America, most were left thinking, "that didn't last long". In Calgary it was a 6 year run, an eternity in an industry undergoing tech-influenced change rapidly.

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Marc Boivin's blogpost today on Linkedin and undoing.ca goes a long way in explaining why and how we got on this journey and what we hope to achieve with it.

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Though it was not the first, Apple's headstart in the wireless earbud space may be too far, even for Amazon. However, characteristically undeterred, the megabrand jumps in with its Echo Buds, to join Apple and others looking to latch into our ears.

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The Trump impeachment inquiry is providing media outlets, like the New York Times, with audience reach and badly needed ad revenue. And like a good marketer, NYT is milking the opportunity. Something all marketers could learn from.

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Recreational cannabis has been legal in Canada for almost a year now, but the regulations on how producers and retailers can promote their product is limited...and getting tighter rather than looser.

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While perseverance and passion served well as descriptors of "grit", their overuse and somewhat ambiguous meaning leaves an opening for a third descriptor. We think that word is "pain". As in no pain...well, you know.

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After proposing Greta Thunberg as a new brand of influencer last week, we took offense to some of the personal attacks aimed her way. Today Marc blogs about it on Linkedin and undoing.ca.

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