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Understanding Tech as an Aspiring Entrepreneur

Why should you care about technology as an entrepreneur?  Not the smartphone in your hand or the laptop on your desk, but the entire realm of technology advancement and achievement.  The transition from an industrial to a technology… Read More

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

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

Rising Entrepreneurs: Is Advertising Worth the Cost?

How to Measure Your ROI when Making Marketing Decisions Big Words vs. Your Business Numbers: Bad advice and wild declarations could be preventing you from maximizing opportunities for your business. Here is a straightforward process for determining, for… Read More

Start Your Business Around Your 9-to-5 Job

Some of you have asked, ‘how do I balance becoming an entrepreneur while still keeping up my 9-to-5 job?’ For the answer, I go back to a basic question: What are you trying to achieve with your life?… Read More

Jump-Start Yourself

Are you struggling with the idea of starting your own business because you’re afraid it’s too much work? What kind of work do you think running a business involves? Many people say they want to achieve lifestyle freedom… Read More

Ten Essential Tools to Help You Get Started as an Entrepreneur

  When you begin planning your business. You may be focused on your business idea, plan, set-up and launch date. But how do you do your focusing? Are you putting the ideas in the notes feature on your… Read More

Ten Eclipse-Inspired Reminders to Use in Your Business

Just when you may have thought the eclipse was an excuse to have a few hours off, take a second look at how the event in its totality brought home some important reminders for anyone running a business…. Read More

The You CEO

The idea of a CEO usually brings up the vision of some kind of muckity-muck who wields enormous power and influence over well…her domain? But what does the term CEO actually mean? Literally, CEO stands for Chief Executive… Read More

Freedom, Satisfaction, Security – Do you like those words?

Three Reasons Why You Should Get your Business out of your Head and into the World “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” That is a line credited to motivational speaker… Read More