Don’t get so wrapped up in work that you forget to stay up with the current events of the business world! Amid all of the chaos, grab a cup of Joe and take a short reading break.
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You find yourself standing on the brink of your first try starting your own business. Looking downwards into confusion. Passion? Perseverance? The idea? The plan? What comes first? What’s most important? There’s a world of advice out there, lots of it conflicting, contradictory advice. Far too much to use and digest. I just discovered Jim Price‘s [...]
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What causes business failure? Obviously that’s a great question, but seriously, isn’t that like asking what causes death? The answer being a vast and mushy mess of different causes and factors plus the occasional, rare, simple and obvious cause like getting run over by a bus? Listing causes like running out of money or too [...]
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I was browsing yesterday when I picked up this post by Alyson Shontell of Business Insider on LearnVest, a finance tools and information site for women, founded by a 27-year-old woman and funded very quickly by major venture capital. Here’s Alyson’s quick summary: In July, LearnVest raised a $19 million round, bringing its total funding [...]
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… is when you have to because you can’t stand not starting it. It’s been on your mind, you’re sure it will work. … was actually years ago; but the second best time is now. … is when you’ve thought it through, you know the risks, and you have a good realistic sense of challenges, [...]
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I was happy to pick up this quick piece from Jeff Bezos last month on Business Insider. Jeff, founder of Amazon.com, ought to know. In Business Insider’s Instant MBA series, Jeff says Business Plans Are Important and Necessary. He says it’s not about being right and guessing the future correctly. It’s about guiding your business [...]
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I’d seen this a few weeks ago and intended to post it here then, but lost track of it. So when it appeared in my email again last Friday, I got it. This is what Business Insider calls THE SCARIEST JOBS CHART EVER. It comes as one of their Chart of the Day charts. This [...]
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I picked this up from the Business Insider Chart of the Day email list from last week. I like the detail here. As Facebook grew, founder Mark Zuckerberg traded share of ownership for investment money. You’ve probably seen a lot of discussion lately about Facebook’s $50 billion value. It’s not a theoretical value of an [...]
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Starting a business takes a whole lot of hard work, some vision, some luck. Getting one to go fast and generate millions of dollars with a big liquidity event, well, that’s gold. That’s the one-in-a-million win that makes the rest of us happy just to think about it. Which is not to say that there [...]
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