Elliot McGucken

Malibu, California

http://artsentrepreneurship.com http://herosjourneyentrepreneurship.org http://elliotmcgucken.com http://45surf.com http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/Heros-Journey-Mythology-Heros-Journey-BusinessArts-Entrepreneurship-MBA/263712680255?ref=ts Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending... He saw the townlands, and learned the minds of many distant men... and weathered many bitter nights and days in his deep heart at sea . . . --Homer's Odyssey The New York Times: McGucken's course (The Hero's Journey in Arts Entrepreneurship & Technology) rests on the principle that those who create art should have the skills to own it, profit from it, and protect it. Business Week: The classics inspired America's Declaration of Independence, which McGucken sees as an entrepreneurial document. Life has a way of "calling us to adventure. . ." The Wall Street Journal: After winning (the Merrill Lynch Innovations Grant Contest for an artificial retina for the blind), he got to tour the New York Stock Exchange. Dr. McGucken caught the entrepreneurial bug. Eventually, he launched an internet company devoted to his longtime passions: writing and classical literature. Jack Bogle: Founder and Former CEO of Vanguard: (Dr. E's) course The Hero's Journey in Artistic Entrepreneurship and Technology is an inspiring tribute to the relevance of classical ideals in our modern lives. --Jack Bogle in his book Enough True Measures of Business, Money, and Life, Wiley 2008 I.D.E.A. to Exit: An Entrepreneurial Journey: Author and Professor Elliot McGucken, Ph.D. describes the entrepreneurial process to his arts students through an analogy to ancient literature. He describes the first stage of the entrepreneur and that of the classic "hero" story as a journey in which the hero, or entrepreneur, "embarks on a quest that requires separation and departure from the familiar world.. . . The entrepreneur moves into the unknown and the unproven. . ." Departure from the familiar is what keeps many from not exploring their entrepreneurial world at all. --Jeffrey Weber: I.D.E.A. to Exit: An Entrepreneurial Journey, p. 3 2010 Webster's Technology Quotations, Facts, and Phrases: Artistic Entrepreneurship & Technology 101 is an open-source course being offered by Dr. Elliot McGucken. The Graphic: Dr. Elliot McGucken organized the (Hero's Journey Entrepreneurship Festival). McGucken teaches a class in artistic entrepreneurship in which Jack Bogle's 2005 book, The

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  • Education
    • Firestone High School
    • Princeton University
    • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill