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
Small Business Skydiving
Posted on Mar - 15 - 2010
As my year-end consumption of ‘top ten lists‘ continues, I came across one on Chicago Now called “The Top 10 Small Business Trends of the Decade” by Barry Moltz. In the list he mentions several things that have all dovetailed together to define the changing nature of work — most centered around the pros and [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Lessons & Epiphanies
The Entrepreneurial Economy
Posted on Feb - 23 - 2010
As my year-end consumption of ‘top ten lists‘ continues, I came across one on Chicago Now called “The Top 10 Small Business Trends of the Decade” by Barry Moltz. In the list he mentions several things that have all dovetailed together to define the changing nature of work — most centered around the pros and [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs
Canines, Trains and Really Great Parties
Posted on Feb - 18 - 2010
One of my favorite things about the information economy is the extent to which a highly commoditized, social web lowers the barrier to entry for prospective entrepreneurs. While some of us elect to dive into owning our own business head-first with little or no safety net, that’s not the best way for some people. Many [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs
Through the Entrepreneurial Looking Glass
Posted on Feb - 17 - 2010
In a recent blog post, author Scott Ginsberg recently asked Have You Executed These Ten Essentials of Entrepreneurial Excellence? He then listed off the ten things he highlights as essential for entrepreneurs to be truly successful: Prestige requires pandemonium Confidence requires congruency Fame requires flexibility Success requires surrender. Creativity requires curiosity Originality requires murder Serendipity [ 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
Updated Marketing Plans
Posted on Feb - 09 - 2010
In the world of tech startups there is a common phenomenon: developer entrepreneurs who can write great apps, build slick sites and develop cool technology… but who forget that the work of finding and acquiring a paying customer is a whole separate discipline. It’s what we often refer to as The Field of Dreams problem. [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Posted on Feb - 05 - 2010
CNNMoney.com published an article on this week’s government report that states, over the past six months, the “22 banks that got the most help from the Treasury’s bailout programs cut their small business loan balances by a collective $10.5 billion.” The report goes on to highlight that over the past six months that TARP recipients [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs
What if the answer is no?
Posted on Feb - 04 - 2010
In Marc Kramer‘s recent Forbes article titled, The 10 Questions You Should Never Stop Asking, the Wharton School professor identifies ten vital questions that all organizations should continue to ask themselves. Beyond being a very good list in and of itself, Kramer uses his past experience as a frustrated executive at a struggling (and ultimately [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs
Hooray the Freelance Economy
Posted on Feb - 03 - 2010
Scott Shane‘s recent article on Business Week is called, “Beware the Freelance Economy.” In it, he posits that cheering for the increased number of new businesses is premature, since so many of them are really solo practitioners (a.k.a. “freelancers”). His point is that, because of this, these firms are not realistic sources of new jobs [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs
Building a Word-of-Mouth Process
Posted on Feb - 01 - 2010
In the American Express OPEN Forum article, Effective Word-of-Mouth is Made Not Born by Yvonne DiVita of Windsor Media Enterprises, the author discusses some tips to cultivating what is called “word of mouth marketing.” Aside from just being a reasonably trendy buzzphrase, word-of-mouth marketing is a marketing tactic designed to maximize the marketing leverage possible [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs