Archive | December, 2007

Mentally Stuck? 5 Tips to Melt that Brainfreeze

19. December 2007

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Everyone has those brain fart moments, when you need to complete something but your mind is just drawing a blank. To help you through those times, I’ve come up with this list of ideas for getting unstuck:

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Carnival of the Capitalists

18. December 2007

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This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists (for 12/16/2007) is up at samaBlog. Of note:

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Concept Mapping

13. December 2007

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A while back, I had a post on sketchnotes which featured Mike Rohde’s sketches from a conference. I’ve found another great idea sketching idea that expands upon this technique: The Concept Map.

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I Learned Everything I Know by Watching TV

12. December 2007

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I have a guest post up today over at Rob May’s blog, BusinessPundit, entitled MBA By TV: Business Lessons Learned From Watching Kitchen Nightmares. The whole idea is a good laugh but the business principles are sound, so check it out!

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Carnival of the Capitalists

12. December 2007

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Jay pulled up his shirtsleeves and did this week’s edition of Carnival of the Capitalists himself over at Dispatches from Blogblivion. Of note:

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King James Inc: Five Business Lessons from LeBron James

11. December 2007

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There’s a really great article on the empire of LeBron James, the NBA star, at Fortune / CNN Money: LeBron Inc. The building of a billion-dollar athlete. (Thanks to BusinessPundit for the tip-off.) What interested me the most was the "summit" that LeBron and his marketing team held at the end of the NBA season, [...]

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Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship

10. December 2007

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The Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship #2 is up at Bootstrapper right now. I wanted to point out the entry, The Single Fastest Thing You Can Do to Increase Trust, from Trusted Advisor. This interested me because Charlie’s reasons really did make sense, but I read a lot about Tim Ferriss and the The 4-Hour [...]

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Carnival of the Capitalists

7. December 2007

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The Carnival of the Capitalists for December 3rd at One Man Band. Of note:

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Launch Faster: 12 Tips for Avoiding Web Project Delays

6. December 2007

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It seems like everyone I’ve talked to lately is in the middle of some kind of web development project delay. (We even had an entire thread about it in the StartupNation Community.) I started asking around and thinking about the delays I’ve had or heard about in my own webdev business to figure out why [...]

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Entrepreneurial Time Management and Discipline

5. December 2007

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As we near the end of 2007, it’s time to start making those goals for yourself and your business for 2008. After studying all the entrepreneurs I have come into contact with over the past year, both at StartupNation and in my marketing/webdev business, I have come to realize that success as a solopreneur is [...]

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Be Your Own CEO

4. December 2007

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I have a chronic illness, but the specifics of what it is are not important at this point. What is important is the choice I have to make every morning: I can get up and think "woe is me", let the pain prevent me from doing anything, and crawl back into bed for the rest [...]

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