Archive for December 8th, 2005
Win an iPod from Business Opportunities Weblog
Just in time for the New Year, the user who posts the most helpful answers between now and December 31, 2005 on Ask the Business Opportunities Blog will win an Apple iPod Shuffle.
Ben Casnocha: People think they need to take risks left and right or bet the farm on things all the time…since isn’t that what start-up entrepreneurship is all about? No. Much of operating in a bootstrapped environment is mitigating risk, weighing costs and benefits, and acting judiciously (but quickly). Sure, there are times when taking [...]
The Entrepreneur’s Fuel: Junk Food
A local greasy-spoon Chinese buffet, that I affectionately refer to as “Scary Chinese,” has hosted some of my most productive entrepreneurial brainstorming sessions. I never realized how normal I was. Local Tech Wire explains that junk food is the real fuel of entrepreneurship: It is my sincere belief that the rapidity with which an enterprise [...]
Mary Sullivan: Maybe you didn’t start a business with a burning desire to do it your way? Susan Urquhart-Brown, founder of Career Steps Consulting, wrote a useful book, “The Accidental Entrepreneur”, for those who never expected to be self-employed. This easy-to-read book is packed with good information for new intentional entrepreneurs, too, especially for “solopreneurs”.
