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Reading Time: 13 minutesIt took over four days of traveling and meetings, but I finally made it to Arua in the far northwest part of Uganda, just a few kilometers from the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and economic hub of the region. After settling into the apartment for a bit, Gerard and I went … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 13 minutesHey. It’s been a while. I’ve been on quite the series of adventures over the past couple of months. I knew there wouldn’t really be time to blog before I hit the skies bound for the other side of the world, but I had no idea how busy things were going to be when I … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 12 minutesEach time I sit down to write one of these blog posts, I am under the delusion that I can finish the thing in one sitting. I have my list of topics to cover – events I’ve attended or run in the past month or two, developments in my many different projects, creative projects that … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 10 minutesHave you ever had the feeling that you didn’t accomplish much in a certain amount of time, but you look back later and realize that you actually accomplished a huge number of things? That’s how the last couple of months have been for me. At the time, it didn’t feel like I was getting much … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 11 minutesThe end of 2021 seemed to just blend into the beginning of 2022. In past years – especially 2020 going into 2021 – there was a bit of a break between the activity at the end of the year and when things picked up toward the end of January. This time around, due to a … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 8 minutesThe engine of progress restarted in 2021, and I have a bunch of momentum rolling into 2022! All of my favorite events from 2019 and before have relaunched in person, and the calendar looks to be returning to its normal arrangement – no cramming a year’s worth of stuff into the second half of the … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 9 minutesSomething really interesting and unexpected seems to have happened this year. Maybe it was the low-to-no expectations I had coming into this year, but it felt to me like life had a hard restart around Memorial Day – like pulling the plug on a computer, then plugging it back into the wall and pressing the … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 17 minutesRoutinely, I have a habit of scheduling way too much in a week. This problem is amplified when I travel, because I know I only have a certain number of hours in a place and want to maximize the time I have. I tried not to do this during the Delta Be Damned Tour in … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 6 minutesI said that I wasn’t going to post again until after my adventures in October. However, I didn’t know that there were going to be so many different stops over so many weeks next month until I put together the itinerary just the other day. Actually, things stretch into the first part of November, so … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 11 minutesIt was only a few months ago when I was contemplating what to do with this blog due to the lack of travel brought on by Coronaworld. I had mentioned then that it was difficult to come up with content for an entrepreneurial ecosystem journey blog when the journey is stopped. Little did I know … [Read more…]