I watched a TED video the other day on teaching children the importance of Entrepreneurship. While I agreed with the idea of this, I wasn’t all that impressed with the speaker – sad to say. But the subject got me thinking of all the opportunities we have as mentors and parents and community members to [...]
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I was standing in line at the grocery store the other day and overheard a conversation between a man and a woman that went something like this: Big buff man (puffing out his chest just a little), “Yeah, I lift about 1,000 pounds a week…” The woman’s eyes got wide, “Oh wow, that’s a lot [...]
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Recently, blogger Penelope Trunk announced that she is separating her blog from her brand (Brazen Careerist). My first thought was, “is that even possible?” Her blog bills itself as “advice at the intersection of work and life,” and given her peculiar life and work, it actually works. Every post attempts to offer some useful career [...]
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Here’s a question I received in an e-mail (edited to hide the sender’s identity): “The major question I have is how you found the courage to pull through when the times were tough? I know that is a very generic question. but it’s what I am going through right now . . . [omitting the author's [...]
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Is your company in Oregon? Is it a startup or early-stage company looking for angel investment? Does it have the kind of team and growth prospects that can make money for investors? If you answered yes to those three questions, please go to the Willamette Angel Conference (WAC) website and submit your company for WAC [...]
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Presumably you, as a business owner, are devoting hours of work, lots of energy, and possibly a delayed or reduced salary to get your dream off the ground. This kind of commitment is assumed. The real test of your business mission (or better, your mantra) is the commitment of your customers and your employees. What [...]
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You may have noticed from other posts on this blog that I’m a fan of Pamela Slim, author of Escape From Cubicle Nation. That’s a great book for people looking to migrate from a corporate job to their own business, and Pam is touring recently, giving a great workshop on the same subject. I was a [...]
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A new television show debuted this past weekend, a show based on a popular UK show, Dragons’ Den. The US show is called “Shark Tank“. The “tank” is a panel of highly successful business people with investment money to spend. Each week 4 to 5 entrepreneurs pitch their idea to the panel. There is a [...]
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Do what you love and the money will follow? That’s been true for me in my life. And within reason, at least, it might be for you, too. Watch the video. Let Guy Kawasaki explain. (And if you don’t see that here, then click here to go to the source.) This three-minute reminder from Kawasaki [...]
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