My entrepreneurial journey has come to an end, and though I felt some guilt about it at first, the truth is, I’m relieved.
To Entrepreneur or Not to Entrepreneur
Posted on Oct - 26 - 2010
Categories: Career & Professional, Entrepreneurs, Family, Lessons & Epiphanies
It’s Not a Career Path, It’s a Career Highway
Posted on Mar - 29 - 2010
As a career management advocate turned Entrepreneur Evangelist, I recently had an epiphany that clarified some of the change I’ve experienced over the past two years, as I’ve moved from my old life to my new one. I’ve been lacking an effective metaphor to describe both the process and my present (and potentially future) state. [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Lessons & Epiphanies, Life & Lifestyle
Don’t Play the Work-Life Waiting Game
Posted on Feb - 22 - 2010
Tim Berry has a recent post on MyVenturePad that is highly worth reading. He takes issue with a VentureBeat post that essentially recommends to entrepreneurs that they sacrifice their life until they get their business successfully built. Tim hits the nail on the head right out of the gate: the absurdity of that recommendation is [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs
What Makes Innovation?
Posted on Feb - 16 - 2010
CNN recently reported that researchers from Harvard Business School, Insead and Brigham Young University have just completed a six-year study of more than 3,000 executives and 500 innovative entrepreneurs, and say they have identified five skills that drive innovation: Associating: The ability to connect seemingly unrelated questions, problems or ideas from different fields. Questioning: Innovators [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs
Mixing Business and Family
Posted on Feb - 11 - 2010
For some families, business is just part of the package. As someone who grew up in a family-owned business, one of the reasons I ducked-and-weaved every time my husband used to bring up the idea of us owning our own business was because I saw a lot of headache (and heartache) as a result of [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Leaders
A Business for Your Life
Posted on Jan - 20 - 2010
One of the most compelling reasons for an entrepreneur to strike out on his or her own is lifestyle. For some people it might be health reasons or inability to tolerate a long commute anymore; for some of us it may be a craving to be location independent or it could be the birth of [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Family, Life & Lifestyle
My Favorite Bloggers
Posted on Dec - 24 - 2009
As someone who consumes most of her daily doses of new information through the blogosphere (as opposed to traditional media), there are different bloggers I read for different reasons. As I’ve been trying to streamline my process for writing more (and better), myself, I’ve been thinking more and more about what I specifically get out [ Read More ]
Categories: Leaders
Why Customer Service Matters
Posted on Dec - 04 - 2009
Many people don’t think about it specifically, but know it intuitively: if you want good customer service, skip the big guys and go to a small company. In Small Business’ Competitive Advantage, I discuss that Customer Service is the magical pixie dust for small business. Think about your normal daily experience: if you need to [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Lessons & Epiphanies
We Never Called it “Cyber Monday”
Posted on Dec - 02 - 2009
I’ve been feeling nostalgic this week. After so many years in ecommerce, supporting catalogers and retailers whose year entirely revolved around the Christmas season, I am almost at a loss for what to do if I’m not running around putting out fires from Thanksgiving weekend up until the week before Christmas. Strange as it seems [ Read More ]
Categories: Career & Professional, Friends, Lessons & Epiphanies, Life & Lifestyle
Combining Ideas is the Secret Sauce
Posted on Nov - 30 - 2009
My first blog post as part of the Entrepreneur Evangelist series on WorkingPoint was called, Being a chocolate and peanut butter entrepreneur. One of the things I like most about being an entrepreneur is the dicing and slicing of seemingly unrelated ideas and piecing them together in new ways. This article was specifically about identifying [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs
Keeping Your Spirits Up During a Job Hunt
Posted on Jul - 01 - 2009
Job hunting is rough for oh-so-many reasons. One of the things that is hardest about it, though, is managing your own attitude and spirits. If there is one thing that is liable to get you into trouble during a job hunt, it is unmanaged anxiety. I’ve written before about some of the things that I [ Read More ]
Categories: Family, Friends, Lessons & Epiphanies, Life & Lifestyle
Where Are You Leading?
Posted on Jun - 30 - 2009
I’ve had an interesting few weeks. My husband and I have been dealing with a lot of things at home, hence my absence from blogging for much of the past month, and I have started a new project with the New Media (a.k.a. “web”) team at KXAN-TV here in Austin. Between getting settled into the [ Read More ]