Tag: Vision

Top Ten Reasons to Start a Business Now

1. You will build your business on a foundation of frugality, which will benefit you in the long run. Knowing how to keep costs low is a great lesson to learn in the beginning. 2. Great talent is available in the job market. 3. Customers are looking for value. They want more for less and [...]

Posted by Carleigh Lowe on Friday, April 17th, 2009
Posted in Top Ten Lists
Tags: Business Tips, Entrepreneur, Recession, Risk, Startup, Vision

Craft Your Story: Technique # 2: Fun with Proust

I admit that fun and Marcel Proust, author of the several thousand page Modernist text Remembrance of Things Past are not always associated. However, the subject of this post, the Proust Questionnaire is surprisingly fun and it could be another way to generate the raw material to craft your story. Designed by the French author [...]

Posted by Christina Cornelius on Monday, April 6th, 2009
Posted in Your Story
Tags: Craft Your Story, Entrepreneur, Startup, Vision

Einstein Failed at Business

Einstein, as brilliant as he was, wouldn’t have been able to start a business or even manage a business successfully. He proved that to his disappointed father, an entrepreneur who built two successful businesses and wanted his son to follow in his footsteps. Einstein tried, and was miserable at it. He ended up packing his [...]

Posted by Rick Bell on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Posted in Founder's Forum
Tags: Entrepreneurs, Risk, Vision