Mark Cuban's First Two Rules Of Startups
You can argue with me all you want about business and you just may walk away feeling better about what you know. But you argue with Mark Cuban’s experience and…
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The Entrepreneurial Spirit Is One Of Belief
Being an Entrepreneur requires optimism, outsize amounts of it. And many times, there is very little evidence around us to be optimistic. In fact, quite the opposite may be true.…
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Can you afford to sit around waiting for inspiration to strike?
There is hope when one can wake up to a Monday with a little bit of drab and find a motivational push. That’s what happened to me today. I’ve been…
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Have you found your inspiration?
Maybe you don’t need a motivational quote to get inspired. Maybe what you need is overcoming the fear of acting upon it, or overcoming self-doubt. It has been a mix…
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It’s A Great Day To Start Something Big
This year is the first time in my life I’m using the start of the new year as a milestone to reinvent my life. After a sobering disastrous 2014 I…
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How Far Can You Go?
How do you know if you have a little more left in you? You push harder. How can you tell if “you’ve gone too far”? Something breaks. Therein lies the…
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What is SEO?
If I can help it, this is the last time I write about what is SEO and what it means for small business. Why? because the conversation about SEO (for…
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Gustave Flaubert On Being Orderly
The horribly misnamed “conventional wisdom” dictates creative work, or the creative worker, is inevitably disorganized. It’s widely accepted superstition. True, creative work can be chaotic, but organization is what allows…
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Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook Book Review.
Goodwill does seem to go around. So, when my friend Fernando Labastida asked for the abbreviated notes on Gary Vaynerchuk’s book, I thought I’d answer here, to continue something that…
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What Should I Do With My Life?
Here are I am, a a time in my life when most people don’t expect to be asking themselves this question, asking myself what should I do with my life.…
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About Making Decisions
It has now been a week since I parted ways with a profitable business, after spending almost two years building it (read more about it here). I came across this…
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Starting Over
Today is the first day of my new “unemployment”. Earlier this week I signed away the business I had been building since 2012. Chalk it up to the ol’ “incompatible…
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