%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2011 %T Shifting an Entrepreneur's World View %A Michael Ayukawa %X As an entrepreneur, you continually test your decisions by gaining feedback: from your customers and your investors (or lack thereof). This process of ongoing feedback is how an entrepreneur learns to shape their opportunity to accommodate their new knowledge of the environment. But this activity is very dependent on the "world view framework" of the entrepreneur. What may seem to be important turns out to be noise and important signals are dismissed. This article describes the special value for an entrepreneur of frameworks grounded in theory in general and the value of the framework of business ecosystems from two perspectives: as a member of a business ecosystem and as a creator of a business ecosystem. These two perspectives fundamentally affected the direction of adaption for our product and reshaped how we approached our (ad)venture. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 05/2011 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/439 %N May 2011 %9 Articles %1 Cornerportal Michael Ayukawa is a Master's student in the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University and plays an active in several emerging business ecosystem projects, including co-founding Cornerportal Inc., a company that is committed to bring economic opportunity to more individuals in more communities worldwide.