Entrepreneurship

Immigrant Entrepreneurs are Good For U.S. (Infographic)

February 18, 2013

This very strong infographic was published last week on Innovation by techdirt blog introducing Startup Act 3, a new effort to push a startup visa for immigrants who want to come to the U.S. to create jobs, not take jobs. 

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Are You Guilty of One-Size-Life-Fits-All Thinking?

January 9, 2013

I was talking to my older brother the other day, about startups, siblings, raising children, and he shocked me, right in the middle of an otherwise smooth conversation, with this:  Now you’re guilty of one-size-life-thinking. You do that way too much. You want everybody to do things the way you did.  That took me aback. [...]

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Are You an Entrepreneur? Do You Want to Be?

October 29, 2012

Are you an entrepreneur? Do you want to be? Are you living with one? This less-than-five-minute video is worth every second. I subscribed to the GrowConference channel on YouTube as a result of watching this. Good stuff. And if you don’t see it here, click here for the YouTube original. And thanks to VentureBeat for [...]

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Q & A: Investment: Size Matters

September 18, 2012

Question: Hello. I, along with a partner, have 20+ years combined experience in the carpet cleaning industry. After investing over 10k of our own money, we will still need an additional 30k for start-up of our own business. We are…

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Q & A: Selling Out to a Partner

September 17, 2012

Question: I own a business with my brother for the past 16 years. I decided to buy my partner/brother out of the business. The business has been running a loss for the past couple of years. How do we put…

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Q&A: When to Quit the Day Job and Start On My Own

July 24, 2012

This Q&A post is different. Usually I highlight questions here for my answer, meaning I’m answering a question I think others are asking, for which I’m hoping my answer might be useful. In this case, however, I’m posting because of the question itself: It’s extremely common, very important, and doesn’t have any obvious single answer [...]

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Which is Worse: Making a Mistake or Losing an Opportunity?

July 11, 2012

What a great thought: how people approach failure is a key to success. That comes straight from Why Failure Drives Innovation, an article by Baba Shiv, Professor of Marketing, published in the Stanford Graduate School of Business news page. Consider this: “Failure” is a dreaded concept for most business people. But failure can actually be a [...]

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A Sign of the Entrepreneurial Times. B-School Startups

July 2, 2012

According to Vital Signs – WSJ.com: The number of students from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business who have chosen to start their own businesses within four months of graduating has grown to 16% among the 385-member class of 2011—more than a fivefold increase since 1990, according to the university. Only 3% of the 1990 class [...]

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Why I Started My Own Business

June 28, 2012

Last night I was keynote speaker at “Invention to Venture,” a technology entrepreneurship event sponsored by the University of Portland. I enjoyed the group thoroughly, and it forced me to articulate some of what I gather are less obvious viewpoints…

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Tipping Point Trumps First Mover Advantage

June 21, 2012

Two interesting milestones: a note last week that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. coupled with the fact that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. In both cases what surprises me is not that it happened, but how long it took. And what interests me is who makes [...]

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