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You know who you are. You hate selling, but here you are, making your way as entrepreneur, having to sell or sink.
Me? I’m a terrible salesperson. I’m also bad at networking, cocktail parties, and small talk with people I don’t know. Do I seem stuck up, aloof? Not really, just awkward.
I’m probably still scarred from [...]
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Bridge financing? A few thousand dollars just to tide us over? I’ve been there, and, in fact, I’ve been there to the tune of $65,000 in credit card debt, which is definitely not the best way to do it.
So I’m noticing today that the US Small Business Administration (SBA) is making good on a promise with [...]
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If you teach entrepreneurship, please join me tomorrow for a webinar on the top 10 tips in teaching entrepreneurship using business planning. I’m going to be looking back on more than 10 years of teaching starting a business using business plans. I hope I’ve picked up a few tips that might help.
NACCE (that’s National Association [...]
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Joanna Van Vleck has revamped her business plan at least half a dozen times, made a new take on an old idea work sensationally, and is riding triple-digit growth during this recession.
So, when she humbly offers 10 lessons for startups, it’s worth listening.
Joanna is founder and CEO of the Trunk Club, which is a network [...]
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I love this post: Brad Feld posts Great Entrepreneurs Believe in Karma, on his Feld Thoughts blog. Read it. It’s short and very good. Very well written. I just added Brad’s blog to my blogroll on this site, because I like the way he thinks.
And thanks to Mike Masnicht for Techdirt, who posted about this [...]
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(This post is taken from my most recent column in the Eugene Register-Guard’s Blue Chip magazine)
Suppose you’ve been wanting to start a business; or maybe you’ve lost a job and you’re thinking that starting a new business might be easier than finding a new job (it’s not that unrealistic, by the way; it does happen sometimes). [...]
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One of my favorite quotes, by Adam Osborne talking about product development, gives way to Seth Godin talking about running your business.
Adam was a writer first, and a personal computer industry pioneer later. I met him when he spoke to my class at business school, then followed his nova-star company, Osborne Computers, as it rose and [...]
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It took me a couple decades running my own business before I realized that everybody in their own business should step back, every so often, and define success. It isn’t obvious. Some people want business growth, some want recognition, some…
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Consider these predictions. They’re all based on identifiable trends. Ask yourself how this affects you, your business, and your business future: In 10 years, the number one English-speaking country in the world will be China. By 2011, 90% of all…
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