I’ve followed a couple different entrepeneurship and business podcasts for a while now (oh my, I think we’re talking about 3-4 years!). Stanford’s “Entrepeneurial Thought Leaders” series, or “Peter Day’s World of Business” have been quite informative, but after listening to enough “war stories” I’m thinking that there has to be a limit to how much I have to listen before I try doing something. I’ve been more interested in “learning from other people’s mistakes” than making my own, perhaps.
Time to do something! Two weeks ago I signed up for ENT1000 – the “Entrepeneurship” class at the Uni in Oslo. Our first class was about creativity (very fun.) Our second about building groups and communication (we made a Lego castle without talking, and everyone with their designated tasks to fill.)
In the meantime we got our first home assignment: Make a presentation/sales-pitch about one horribly bad product. Our product was “Contact lenses for flies,” and we made a story about the need to “humanely remove the files from your home, using our patent-pending UV filtering spray (that covers the fly’s eyes) and UV-emitting tape.”
The presentation went well. 
Next, we’re supposed to try ourselves on something more serious and ambitious.