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Successful Businesses Build on Purpose

When you start a new business, you obviously start with an idea. But a critical ingredient for success is understanding your “why”. Why do you do what you do? It’s amazing how many business owners and their teams go through the motions of running their businesses on a day-to-day basis without ever understanding the purpose [...]

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Barry Moltz has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 15 years. He’s also the author of “Bounce! Failure, Resiliency and the Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success”. He is an enthusiastic speaker and teacher on entrepreneurship. The 11 things that matter in a Business [...]

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Tyra on Business

by Jay Snider on October 13, 2008

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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Start Moving the Product

by Tim Berry on July 21, 2008

Two out of three isn’t that bad. 37 Signals is a success, too. So I was curious when I saw “Advice for entrepreneurs: Throw out that five-year plan, build something now, and don’t take any money” on the 37 Signals blog. It links to “Follow Your Dream” in Best Life magazine, with some good advice [...]

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