OK, I’m not going to use your name, but I trust you know who you are. We ran into each other recently and three times during our conversation you referred to yourself as a “failed entrepreneur.” Impossible. You may as well claim to be a chupacabra. That thing you say you are? It does not [...]
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Thinking of starting your own business? I get asked often what it’s like starting a business. I get asked this by people who tell me they hate their jobs and can’t wait to have enough money/time/energy/opportunity to start their own gigs. Really? Entrepreneurship, I’m learning, is about 3 things: 1. Sales. 2. Having the hard [...]
This image pretty much says it all. (Right column.) So cool. And helpful—if you’re in small business, you need to buy The Entrepreneur Equation! Congrats, Carol Roth! Jason Seiden is Co-founder and CEO of Ajax Social Media, a training company that shows professionals how use social media to work more effectively.
Congratulations, Carol! It’s rare that a piece of great content is actually found by the public. So it is no small feat that my friend Carol Roth now finds herself with Amazon’s top selling book—and I don’t mean “top selling in Business > Management > Entrepreneurship > Start up financing > Business plans > Setting [...]
Thinking about quitting your job to start a compnay? Chew on this: When you have a job and people don’t call you back, it’s annoying. When you work for yourself and people don’t call you back, you don’t get paid. Picture it: it’s Friday afternoon, and you haven’t heard from your four biggest clients in [...]
I’m sitting here, grinding out book #3. Having a tough day; phone keeps ringing, fires keep flaring up, and I can’t get that 3 hour block of time I need to concentrate and drive this thing forward. I’m committed to having the current draft completed by the end of the week, and I’m not sure [...]
Here’s how to protect your million dollar idea: Give birth to it. No joke: if people knew how hard it was to give birth to an idea, they wouldn’t worry a bit about other people stealing them. Conceiving a good idea is easy. By nature, conception is fun. Brainstorming the big ideas? fun. Just like [...]
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