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Launched: November 7, 2007
"Who are these kids" murmured the back of the room. We struggled to get our laptop hooked up to the projector and after reaching deep into the back of the podium and pulling out a cable we got underway. It was November 2007, almost a year since we had last attended Oduro Takyi's "Business Entrepreneurship 55", but we were glad to be in a room full of Silicon Valley's future entrepreneurs. We began with a case study. We recounted the early steps that Google took as it grew from an idea, to a small company and eventually a multi-national corporation.

As we elaborated I could tell that we had the full attention of the class; people began to ask more questions. Do they really have free food? How does Google make its money? How does AdSense work? As people got more excited we transitioned to the next part of the presentation. We covered Josh and My involvement in BRUTE LABS and the room began to light up. Project Run, then Josh's lecture series that he delivered at Believe-Begin-Become, an entrepreneurship conference based out of Tanzania.

Finally we began to cover the story of Gregory Mchopa from Tanzania and how within 36 hours we set up his website and a local artist became an international entrepreneur. Harnessing the power of Web 2.0, a bit of motivation and a few free online products it seems that anyone can truly be enabled to find success in business.

Take a look at the presentation in the downloads section. Although the deck is just a collection of random facts and images, the stories they tell inspired a room in a little over an hour. You can inspire too. Go out, make your own stories, document them and share.

As always, feel free to reach out to us along the way.

Greg
greg@brutelabs.org