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Money Magazine’s Top 10 Best Places to Live: Family Values Still Good Business
Family values are not only hugely popular, but they are also good for business
Harvey Pekar: Remembering an Entrepreneur
Born October 8, 1939, he died early in the morning July 12, 2010 at his home in Cleveland Heights. He is a famous American comic strip writer known best for writing the comic strip "American Splendor" where he chronicles the every day life of the every day man. He...
Want to Make $800 Million? Be a Scrappy Fighter
According to Nick Swinmurn, a 30 year old billionaire the key to success is to "be scrappy". In an interview for the BBC news blog, he talks about how it is the guys who don't give up that succeed the most. It doesn't matter, he says, if you don't know how you're...
Land of Opportunity Not Milk and Honey
Catrina Callahan wrote something on Facebook today and it is just brilliant. So here I have copied it. You need to read it : Someone once asked me “Is there a place left on this earth where I can have a chance to be what I want to be? Because it sure ain’t America.”...
Risky Business: Learning from Tom Cruise (shocking, isn’t it?)
In the movie, “Risky Business”, Tom Cruise may have been taking a different kind of risk than your business is approaching this year, but when it comes to looking at risky business choices, sometimes a little crazy bravado goes a long way towards successful acheivement.
Real Business Help. Marketing vs. Smoke and Mirrors
When you honestly invest yourself in your customers, caring for what they need, and doing your best to provide answers and assistance without expectations of reimbursement, customers will thank you with their business
The Serial Entrepreneur
Sounds like a criminal title, doesn't it? Serial Entrepreneurs are a special breed of human. Instead of starting a company just once--they love the thrill of starting a business, selling it off, and moving on to the next big thing. They take raw materials and build...
That Sausage Guy: Make Sure Your Business Title Looks Good on a Tombstone
When Jimmy Dean passed away this month, I started thinking about my own demise. Once I”m gone, I want my efforts today to be remembered in a way that makes sense for me. I want people to remember me for doing something I loved everyday and not just for what I accomplished in a mundane 9-5.
USA World Cup: Building a Business Model Like a Soccer Game
So the US pulled out a last minute win only to lose Ghana. Oh, but what a fabulous loss it was!
Bollywood Star Focuses on Entrepreneurship
Pretiy Zinta attends Harvard Business.
If I Take All the Risks, I Want All the Rewards
Assessing your situation is good. But determining what it is you want from life is better.
When it comes to selling stuff, Be Cool Hand Luke
In this video clip from "Cool Hand Luke" we watch Paul Newman's character, Luke, playing poker and he bluffs a large amount of money out of a crowd of convicts when in his hand he is holding nothing. The classic line is "Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand"....
Your Own Business: Fear No One Will Buy Your Stuff
So you want to start your own business, but you're afraid no one will buy your products. Well, we talk about fear and it's potentially disasterous effects on any venture in alot of posts on here, so today I want to talk about the reality of seemingly worthless...
Just Back Off Already: Knowing When to Let Others Take the Reins
Sometimes “keepin’ it on the homefront” will actually cost you more money than spending to hire someone else.
French Innovation. Well, sort of.
Seriously, the very word entrepreneur—while almost cliche in today’s society of money-makers, book writers, and such– has innovation at its’ core. Are you an innovator? I think too many people let fear of innovation weigh them down.
The Jobs Passion
What Steve Jobs considers the key to success in life.
Steve Jobs Commencement Address to Stanford.
“Don’t Settle”; Steve Jobs Commencement Address to Stanford.