Don’t be self-defeating! Innovate.
Big companies need you, don’t let their presence prevent you from moving forward with your ideas, designs and inventions. How many great ideas have been crushed by thoughts like, “What if I take my product public and a big competitor just replicates it, crushing me and my idea?” There was a good article in Entrepreneur [...]
For Entrepreneurs Only
Being an entrepreneur can be a lonely job, often thankless and a non-stop roller coaster. Explaining even that simple statement to someone that has never been one is more or less futile as much as explaining what it is like to visit space to someone that has never even been on an airplane. After building [...]
Ready, set, wait…
Entrepreneurs (E) don’t wait, if they did, they wouldn’t be entrepreneurs. Waiting is for the faint of heart, the skeptics and the big corporate (C) machine. It has little place in my heart or of that of my businesses. Sure, I could plan more, test, re-test, even put it to a focus group. What for? [...]
Food for thought(s) gleaned from HBR
# Turn challenges into opportunities.
# Simplicity is power.
# Management is NOT a profession.
# People with international experience (travel/life) are more likely to create new businesses and products and to be promoted.
# Failure demands a response, yet the status quo is embraced and, incredibly, protected.
Preparing Tomorrow’s Entrepreneur
Who’s going to build the businesses of the future? The economy is built and grown through the efforts of new businesses, small business and entrepreneurs. Are we preparing today’s youth to be successful as tomorrow’s entrepreneurs? Reflecting back on the tools I had when I started my first business, those that made it successful and [...]
