“Entrepreneurship is 99% hustle and 1% good ideas.” -Joe Fernandez, Founder of Klout.com At some point in your life, you are going to come up with a good idea. A really good idea. One of those “Million Dollar” ideas. From the moment you think of this really great idea, you’re going to obsess over it. [...]
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Like a lot of entrepreneurs, Michael Turner started his own company after growing disillusioned with working for somebody else. As he remembers: “There were meetings galore, lots of PowerPoint slide shows, big buzzwords that meant nothing—all resulting in very little productivity, but costing millions of dollars.” After 10 years, Turner decided to head out on [...]
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What is a full service animation studio doing in a quiet Northern Virginia neighborhood? Producing animation for “the big screen, the small screen, and all the screens in between,” says its founder, Charlotte Rinderknecht. Studio Kinate is a “concept to completion” studio whose artists use traditional hand-drawn animation to create its projects. But it’s not [...]
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Here on the Business In General blog, and at Bplans.com, we are committed to optimistic support of entrepreneurship and the startup and growth of business, especially small- and medium-sized businesses. I’m not Pollyanna-ish about our business environment, however. It is unrealistic to think, or even hope, that a few short months of so-called recovery, including [...]
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Jim Glasgow has a black belt in karate, does jui jitsu, kickboxes, cycles, and has competed in triathlons and marathons. Oh yeah, and he operates a successful business too. What connects these pursuits? The passion that he brings to them all. Jim had always wanted to have his own business. And as a long time [...]
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Melodie Ellis knows what it’s like to work for somebody else. And she knows what it means to work for herself. In fact, she managed to do both for almost eight years, holding down a job as an employee at a private piano studio while also teaching students on her own in the Dallas-Fort Worth [...]
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During his second year of law school, Philip Amoa began the process of searching for internships. He found the research stressful — he had to locate law firms in specific geographic markets, personalize application documents, and meet important application deadlines, all while trying to prepare for classes the next day. A joking suggestion from a [...]
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Small businesses, individually owned or family-owned, are really the backbone of this country’s economy, employing more people nationwide than the big-name giant corporations, and serving most of our daily living needs. For many of these businesses, family continuity, the transition/succession of ownership/management from one generation to the next, is a huge issue. I’ve worked for [...]
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With this question, Richard St. John begins his 4 minute TED Talk – “Success is a Continuous Journey” Richard talks about the success, failure and eventual bigger success of his business, the St. John Group. He has some very simple principles for success, principles that he’s worked more than a decade to prove. Out of [...]
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Another great video from our friends at the Oregon Small Business Development Center Network. Meet Ted Golden. Ted describes his successful business: servicing rooftop ventilation systems throughout the Portland Metro Area. He was assisted by the Mt. Hood Community College Small Business Development Center. Watch the video on YouTube As always, we’d like to thank [...]
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