If you’ve got a real passion for something or a good idea that think you could transform into an entrepreneurial venture don’t stuck on the “scalability issue”. Why? Simply because your judgement of scalability is based on what you know - which limits what you can imagine. 

Scalability is a very “systematic” way to look into ventures. Is a prediction based on data & facts that are useful for managers, business analysts, investors and all kind of corporate thinking folks.

Successful entrepreneurs on the other side tend to be taking a more “artistic” approach into things. The game is won if you can invent your way forward rather than predict it.

Take as an example someone having a passion in photography. How scalable can something like this become? If we were to judge how far can a photographer go we would base our prediction on her talent and the hours she could put into it. Regardless how talented she is, her talent is not transferable to others so she cannot employ more people to do the work in order to maximise her business and her work capacity is limited to a maximum of 24h a day. So there’s a scalability issue here…  

But is photography just about taking pictures or is it also about optimizing photo cameras? Advancing the way photo classes should run? Writing the next best seller book on photography? Creating a better photo sharing online platfrom? Re-inventing the whole photograph industry?

Sky is not the limit… Sky is just a limit…

Wednesday the 24th of August will be marked in history as the day when the most fascinating business career ever ended. Steve Jobs anounced his resignation as CEO of Apple just a couple weeks after he brought the company on the top of the list with the most valuable companies in the world in terms of capitalization.

Steve is now named the Chairman of the Board as stated in Apple’s PR website. Tim Cook will fairly take over the duty of leading world’s most innovative company as its CEO and it couldn’t be a better time for him to do so. Apple is growing in double digits and there is a promising innovation pipeline that ensures further growth on the coming years.

Regardless the fact Apple is an amazing company itself, Steve Job’s career in and outside Apple is admittedly a very fascinating one.  A career built upon passion, guts, taste and vision. Starting up in a garage (for real – not for PR purposes) to finding himself out of the company he co-founded , to building up a couple other successful companies such as NeXt and Pixar and then returning back to save Apple from its ashes. If Steve was a mythology figure he would have defienetly been Midas. Everything he touched turned into gold!

If you want to find out a bit more about Steve’s fascinating career take a look at his Bio on wikipedia. In any case if  you haven’t watched this video (below), it definetely worths your time. Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address proved the fact that having the traits is far more important than developing the skills. There he is, a guy who never graduated from university, standing in front of world’s brightest graduates advising them that the most important thing in life is to follow their heart:

Also Click here to check out Business Insider’s spot on some of Steve Jobs life highlights

Being technology savvy is always going to be an advantageous skill in business and life in general. Even from a historical perspective, a major distinction between developed and under-developed civilizations, was the technology adoption rate of each society. Constantly developing your soft skills while keeping up with some edgy technology trends can really help you make a difference.

Here are some of the coolest presentation tips and wits you might wanna master in using in order to impress your audience! So, let’s start with this: If you need to take your presentations with you, it’s easy right? You carry them on your laptop, a usb stick or even your iphone! What if you need to present it to a broad audience though. Then you need a wall and a projector. Well, I don’t know about the wall; this is your problem but you can now forget about the projector!

Check this out: The Pico Projector!

Then, how do you ensure your presentation rocks: Prezi; the absolute fancy and extremely usable way to express your ideas and let people understand your most complicated concepts. If you haven’t heard of it click here to learn more; if you have heard of it click here and start using it! Prezi is an online zooming presentation editor. The free version of it is quite sufficient and will give you a good idea of what is this tool available to do. It actually has an offline desktop version as well, but this you can buy. I had heard about this a while ago, but I actually used it just a month before this post. Absolutely amazing!

Finally, this is not something new but it is a classic. If you are interested in improving your presentation skills you have to have seen this. Killer Presentation Skills!