Very interesting piece on BusinessWeek.com today, “Is Entrepreneurship Declining.” John Tozzi gets two contrary points of view from two people I’m proud to know and admire: Scott Shane and Steve King. John picks up the right links: Scott says yes and Steve says no. Both pieces are well-written and well-researched. William Blake said, in The [...]
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A friend asked me last week if I know an investor interested in the T-shirt business. I don’t know him well, I don’t know his business, but I’d like to help. So it occurs to me that there’s a predictable series of questions to ask to point a plan in the right direction. 1. Is [...]
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Cale Bruckner, our Vice-President of Product Development, pointed me towards this great little video today. An uplifting short video on the power of entrepreneurship. Well worth a moment in your busy day. Entrepreneurs Can Change the World: Click here to view the video at the source ‘Chelle Parmele Palo Alto Software
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Harrumph. I wasn’t happy to see this title on Entrepreneur.com written by anybody but me. I got a lot of page views last month on my Planning Startups Stories blog with 10 Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs. Now Entrepreneur.com lists 25? Harrumph. But then, thinking about it, the list is pretty damn good. My compliments to [...]
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Prisoner one: “We’re going to break out of here, or die trying.” Prisoner two: “Are those the only options?” That’s in a scene from the movie Chicken Run. The prisoners are chickens. It’s funny, but it also makes a very good point, which relates directly to starting a business. And that’s one question we forget. [...]
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People often talk about traits of the entrepreneur. Things come up like passion, persistence, dreamer, leader and so on. Sometimes you’ll see direct opposites–as if, for example, entrepreneurs are always doers instead of dreamers. I posted a couple of lists myself, this year: 10 signs you’re probably an entrepreneur as listed by Andrew Patrico on [...]
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Here’s an interesting upturn even during a downturn. Amid all the bad news on investment banking, Goldman Sachs has a special program to train women in entrepreneurship in developing markets. The World Bank has a $100 million program for commercial credit to women. This was in a Dec. 26 report in The New York Times: [...]
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Palo Alto Software is pleased to be a small part of this amazing global effort to help young entrepreneurs, small business and growing businesses succeed with their business dreams. This week, all over the world, businesses, universities and thought leaders in the business community are celebrating the power of the entrepreneur. As Tim Berry, the [...]
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You may start noticing a theme on the BIG Blog – “Back to Fundamentals” – and when you sit down and think about it, it is a really simple idea that can have a really big impact on your business. Whether or not your company is in a financial pinch, the economy is in a [...]
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Let me begin by saying that I never thought I’d be quoting Tyra Banks. On anything. But she recently wrote a piece in Newsweek about her life and her thoughts on, of all things, entrepreneurship. She compared starting a new business to having a new baby – you lose sleep, work 24/7, and look for [...]
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