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(I posted Organizing Angel Investors Monday on Up and Running about positive developments in angel funding. David Rose, CEO of angelsoft.net, added the following as a comment to that post. Although I haven’t had guest posts on this blog, David’s comment is worth it. And I’ve been using angelsoft.net for a while now, I know [...]
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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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I picked this up from the American Express OPEN forum: Fear Is Easy, But Hope Is Smarter. Are those the only choices? How about carefully planning the right responses. Taking action. Reviewing the situation, revising the plan, focusing on priorities,…
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… is when everybody else thinks it’s a bad time to start a company. This two-minute snippet is part of a 2003 talk by Jerry Kaplan, successful entrepreneur, founder of onSale, Inc., and GO Corporation, and an early thought leader…
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What’s wrong with this picture? Or maybe I should ask how many different things are wrong with it? I read about Spouse 2.0 day in the New York Times. No, it’s not a joke. The Times says: To celebrate, founders…
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There was a scene in one of those old black-and-white movies in which the fabulously rich guy is asked the secret of success and he answers: “Choose rich parents.” For the rest of us, it has to do with work….
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Risk sounds bad, right? We talk about avoiding risk, reducing risk, and managing risk. Diversifying your portfolio to reduce your risk. This is just a reminder, to me, as well as to you. Risk has two sides. A lot of…
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I’ve somewhat accidentally produced a bit of a thread here on obstacles to starting, the counterpoint about a relationship boost, and then that generated a note of caution, about family and relationships. These generated some good comments, too; they really…
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I didn’t intend to start a series, but this is the third. The first was my biggest obstacle in starting a business, which was followed by my biggest boost. Truth is, I was listing obstacles trying to figure out what…
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I posted my biggest obstacle here Saturday: When I started my business in 1983, needing the money was my biggest obstacle. I had a good job, which I left on purpose; and mine was the only income. And we had…
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