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Today I remember my literature classes, and my background as a one-person business, all at once, with the T.S. Eliot quote:
April is the cruelest month.
Especially April 15th.
In the old days, the first 15 years or so of my being in business on my own, the phrase “Schedule C” struck at my heart like a cold [...]
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Where do your new business ideas come from? What steps do you take to convert the new idea into a new product?
I was caught off guard last Friday when I was asked that question at the MERC 2009 entrepreneurship conference last Friday at George Mason University.
I should be able to answer that question without hesitation [...]
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Almost 20 Years ago I developed a software product called Forecaster. You start with an empty chart. Then you assign values to vertical and horizontal. Then you draw a line with your mouse, and Forecaster generates the numbers that correspond to the line.
It was built as something you could use in a business plan. [...]
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I can’t say I liked my first boss. But I learned a lot from him. Some of it worth sharing. He was bureau manager of United Press International in Mexico City in 1971. He was about 45 years old, just…
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This is a true story. The three couples were friends. They knew each other different ways: worked together, played tennis, crossed paths. So they decided to get together once a month to go out to dinner in a group, six…
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I posted yesterday about a New York Times story titled Dreamers and Doers, about Babson College. I had to hold myself back, because this subject is so tangential to that. It’s about the title, which has very little to do…
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Just a quick note. I had a conversation the other day about driving somebody — boss, customer, co-worker, ally — to the airport. Isn’t that an unproductive way to spend time? Not necessarily. I had a big win once by…
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This is a true story. Really, I didn’t care that he tried to build a business based on my idea, without asking my help, without even telling me. What bugged me was that I liked the guy, before and after…
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