I’m fascinated by data Steve King of Small Business Labs published a couple of weeks ago in Comparing Small Business Owners and High-Growth Entrepreneurs. This makes perfect sense to me: I would expect the general small business owners — which makes me think of restaurants, car washes, hardware stores, dry cleaners, etc. — to be [...]
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Try this idea out: You’re starting your own business. It’s just you. You’ve already quit that other job, so you’re working on it all day, every day. Consider some of these options: The home office: You settle into a comfortable home office, work your computer, work your phones, and work your refrigerator. You take meetings [...]
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This collection of posts on my unretirement (I think I’m adopting Steve King’s term) came up this week, I guess because of the interview Romy Ribitzky did last week with me and my daughter Sabrina, about how I stepped down from managing the company to focus on blogging, writing, speaking and teaching instead. That was [...]
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Obviously there are a lot of good top 10 trends lists for small business, social media, technology and all, as seems to happen every year at this time. I’ve seen a lot of them, and I recommend Steve King’s Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2010 from Small Business Labs, posted yesterday. One big point [...]
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Ah yes, research. You want the truth? Study the research–or so we all seem to think. But then the first thing you do, with any research, is look at how the data were compiled. And take it all with a grain of salt. I saw a good example yesterday, in this post by Steve King [...]
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There’s an excellent post yesterday from Steve King of Emergent Research on his Small Biz Labs blog: If You Are Raising Money, You Need a Business Plan. Steve acknowledges that people say venture capitalists don’t read plans, but adds: “that is totally missing the point.” He says: The goal is not to get a VC [...]
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