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THE NUMBER ONE, SECRETLY ENCODED, AND GUARANTEED RETURN INVESTMENT TIP FOR 2014!
I have worked in several financial/administrative jobs. My brother works in sales. My wife is a teacher and her sister now works for a...

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Dec 26, 20132 min read
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Entrepreneurial Deja Vu
People come to me to help them launch or grow their businesses given my entrepreneurial track record and my big name school MBA. While I...

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Dec 24, 20122 min read
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Entrepreneurial Accountability
Here’s the irony. The best way to ensure success is by increasing your eyes and ears in the marketplace to counterbalance entrepreneurial...

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Oct 10, 20122 min read
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#Flip Thinking about Employees and Customers
In teaching a course on entrepreneurship and creating a business plan, some “flip thinking” happened. In the discussion of ,”Who is your...

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Aug 15, 20122 min read
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July Fourth – Entrepreneur’s Day
Zappos founder Tony Hsieh Wouldn’t you like to work for an organization with the following core values? “We hold these truths to be...

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Jul 3, 20122 min read
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A marathoner looks at going with the cashflow
My last marathon in the water with George S. Business and running go hand in hand to me. In fact my first run, the Boston Marathon, came...

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Jun 19, 20123 min read
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Teaching the Teacher
The course offered through a community college failed to attract enough students to “make” its March schedule. Unlike businesses, schools...

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Mar 1, 20122 min read
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Optimistic Blind Spots
For all its wonderful attributes, optimism has its risks. Whether its running a business or a 10k, you need more than just fuel to...

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Feb 28, 20122 min read
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A Balanced Life and Steve Jobs
I just finished reading Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography. Having lived in California is the 70’s and 80’s I found his covering of...

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Feb 19, 20122 min read
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Size Matters
I learned a valuable lesson today that reinforced Seth Godin’s premise that mass and size matters. Promoting a customer service event I...

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Feb 16, 20122 min read
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A Sweetheart of a Entreprenuer Story
In this era of people complaining of unemployment benefits running out after two plus years, it is a joy to see that entrepreneurism is...

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Feb 14, 20122 min read
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Seeing what you hear appear
Today was a great day for so many reasons. Our events are getting booked, my associate gave a great presentation to the Optimists, an...

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Feb 8, 20123 min read
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Marketing in the Bazaar World
Thinking about Godin’s “Weird” analogy and Friedman’s earlier book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, I had another weird thought. In comes the...

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Feb 7, 20122 min read
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A profitable life at any level
Started teaching a course on entrepreneurship tonight and the subject turned to cash flow. We were taking about the 7 C’s of lending...

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Feb 6, 20122 min read
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