Archive for May 4th, 2005

The Entrepreneur’s Secret is No

Dana Blankenhorn: The secret to being a successful entrepreneur is learning how to handle NO. … Entrepreneurs bring ideas to businesses and people. They sell these ideas, as businesses. They take a lot of meetings. And most of the time, maybe over 99% of the time, the answer at the end of the day is [...]

 

Entrepreneurship as Economic Development in America

The Entrepreneurial Mind: Entrepreneurship as a force for economic development is alive and well in America’s cities. The Institute for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Inc Magazine have announced the annual Inner City 100, which includes the fastest growing businesses located in America’s inner cities. Microenterprise, a major force in urban economic development, is [...]