Every year, the folks at Entrepreneur Magazine name an Entrepreneur of the Year. They’re looking for a person who makes a positive impact and improves their industry, employees, and community with a combination of ideas, leadership, and vision. The deadline for entries this year is June 15, so you’ve got plenty of time to enter [...]
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Entrepreneurship continues to be a sexy topic for governments, with every country worth its salt trying to create its own tech hub, mimicking Silicon Valley. The appeal of promoting entrepreneurship is obvious. After all, entrepreneurs can do many good things, not least to create wealth and employment, pay taxes and help the balance of trade through [...]
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I don’t know what it is about Marketing, but everyone on earth seems to think they can do it. And yet I see so many people NOT doing it or wasting thousands of dollars and not getting results. I see business owners try the same things over and over, wasting more money, more time, and [...]
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Many of my clients are business owners and entrepreneurs, and we often discuss succession planning. If you don’t have a family member who is the obvious heir apparent, what do you do? I think the question of succession planning isn’t just for entrepreneurs, though. It’s certainly a topic of discussion in board rooms and at meetings. Yet I don’t often [...]
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Executives and business owners ask me about employee accountability all the time. They want to know how to make employees accountable. I’d like to give you a resounding yes! Yes, you can improve employee accountability! But unfortunately I can’t tell you that. I don’t believe employee accountability is a lost cause, but so many factors have an impact on the problem [...]
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Yesterday I was sent a link to a study on women owned businesses. While some of the data is a few years out of date, I was caught by this particular piece of information: In 2004, Women owned 10.6 million businesses in the United States. They employed 19.1 million workers–that’s one in every seven employees [...]
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I’ve been called many things in my life. Most recently I have been called a “woman entrepreneur,” “mompreneur,” “social entrepreneur,” and a few other things I won’t repeat. Transitioning from freelancer to entrepreneur (not businesswoman—a distinction I will explain shortly) was an exhilarating, frightening, and freeing experience. Through that transition I became a master of [...]
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My cousin Brian recently shared an article titled 5 Ways To Test An Entrepreneurial Idea. It was full of cute and inspiring ideas on how to succeed in the world of small business ownership. “Research an analogy,” “Contact your prospective clients,” and my personal favorite, “Visualize it.” When I read the last one I choked [...]
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Jeffrey Busgang titles his Harvard Business Review post “Should I Become an Entrepreneur?” I admit, it’s not an unreasonable question, and my response — if you have to ask, the answer is no — is probably unfair and too abrupt. Even so, I answer that way to point out that entrepreneurship is so often something [...]
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