The Importance of Expanding Your Personal and Business Network The importance of your personal and business network cannot be overestimated. When I talk about network I am not talking about the way your computers talk to each other or the internet, I am talking about the people you know and that know you. This has […]
In the last episode of Startup Daddy, Scott Stratten got me thinking about why someone should consider not starting a business. He said that nobody really talks about it and he’s right. So I’m saying it now. You may not be cut out to be an entrepreneur. If you’re not, you should not start your […]
If you’re like a lot of small businesses and freelancers, you get paid for what you know. You may be a consultant, or a designer, or an accountant (or you may want to be), but in the end, people pay you because you know more about X than they do. Now if you’re smart, and […]
I’m taking a mulligan for 2009. In golf, a mulligan is when you hit the ball poorly, into the woods or a lake, or five feet in front of you, and you want a do over. I know a lot about mulligans. I was inspired by CC Chapman, who had a bad week, and called […]
As this is the beginning of a new year, and I am starting a new venture, I find myself going through a list of inspiring reads and videos I have bookmarked. For my first post of 2010, I want to share a video of Steve Jobs giving the commencement speech at Stanford in 2005. It’s […]