Entrepreneurs With Too Much Passion Are Challenged
Diana Ransom is a contributing editor to Entrepreneur.com and queried in an article today whether lack of focus is an issue in startup failure. She cites the usual suspects (inadequate capitalization,...
View ArticleFree is Costly and Cost is Freeing
As a consultant to small businesses, I have had to fight the trend of owners wanting something for nothing. In the start-up world, it is almost unheard of for something to not be free. Yet, I see...
View ArticleRun Your Business Better With Games For the Mind
Owning a business is not a game. Seemingly, playing games is also irrelevant to running a business. Yet, there are skills requisite to entrepreneurship that may require development through practice....
View ArticleEntrepreneur Faith – Future, Attitude, Improvisation, Timing and Help
Reading outside one’s usual list of publications, blogs, and websites can be very eye-opening. Perspective emerges as familiar subjects are addressed in differing ways. When worldview is, in fact, only...
View ArticleEntrepreneurial Twists and Misfortune
Anyone who has read my blog for more than one sitting knows that I began my career doing turnarounds, mixed in some strategy added to marketing and nonprofit, started some businesses, and now help...
View ArticleRisk a Mistake; Earn a Valuable Lesson
Entrepreneurship is about taking risks. With risk taking comes the chance for failure. Failures, however, need not be a detriment to success. Quite often, they can be the building block. Matthew...
View ArticleYou Can’t Handle A Business Plan!
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. -Dwight D. Eisenhower (Thirty-fourth President of the USA) Eisenhower was a military leader of...
View ArticleWhen and Why to Withdraw Money From a Start-up
Working with entrepreneurs all day every day produces a certain fixation with what is most important to their survival. Unfourtunately, what is best for the business may not (in the short run) be what...
View ArticleSuccess Bred From Culture
In a post today for Inc. magazine online, Scott Elser, who is the co-founder of Launchpad Advertising, discussed what he and the founding team consider to be the driving force in the company’s success:...
View ArticleThe “Cheese” Has Been Moved!
There was a book published a few years ago entitled, “Who Moved My Cheese?” In this book, the author made observations about the employment market and how many who thought their jobs safe were laid...
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