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Popularity vs Excellence: A Decision Guide for Rising Entrepreneurs

In the battle for relevance between popularity and excellence, how should rising entrepreneurs market their business? This post discusses how the decision to create a ‘popularity Oscar’ signals our society’s shift from value, quality and excellence to popularity. … Read More

Do you feel the Urgency to become an Entrepreneur now?

The number #1 reason to become an entrepreneur right now in the 21st century is because the world has changed irrevocably. The twin waves of globalization and technology are changing the economic and employment landscape for every profession…. Read More

Why the World Wants You to Be an Entrepreneur

If you have always wanted to start your own business, but were afraid to because ‘no one you know is doing it,’ you may be surprised to learn that your instinct to be an entrepreneur is in line… Read More

Entrepreneurship and the Reasons Why People Hate Their Jobs

The world seems to have two types of entrepreneurs. The people who are driven from day one to start a business and never do anything else. You know that kid selling lemonade at a construction site. Then there… Read More

Are you a businessperson or an entrepreneur?

People often ask the question: What is the difference between a businessperson and an entrepreneur? Some would say the businessperson is the blue suited MBA with a briefcase, process workflows, five-year strategic plans and a corporate AMEX card…. Read More

Prepare to Pitch Investors in under Five Minutes: Tips for Rising Entrepreneurs

Are you ready to pitch your business idea in under one minute? You have one minute. One minute to convince someone with money to give you money for your business. Have you prepared? Rising Entrepreneurs have an opportunity… Read More

How do you define Real Success as an Entrepreneur?

When people set out with a goal, like to start their own business, the achievement is clear. When the business opens, the goal has been reached. But many entrepreneurs do not feel successful at that moment. Doubt quickly… Read More

They said Doing a Webinar was Easy…27 Tech Tools later I figured it out…

For those of you building an online business using the available tools, and your own brainpower, hang with me for this one… Online entrepreneurship is made possible by the technology. Processes that used to have huge barriers to… Read More

Can Entrepreneurship be Taught?

Who are the entrepreneurs in the world, the people who start businesses? Could it be the most clever or the hustler or the cheapskate or the visionary or the lucky or the hardest working or the liar or… Read More

What is Lifestyle Freedom?

When people toss around a term like ‘lifestyle freedom,’ I have to ask: What do you mean? When you think about the term ‘lifestyle freedom’ do you have a definition in mind? Or more likely, a vision. Some… Read More