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Carnival of Trust

9. January 2008

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The January edition of the Carnival of Trust is up now. I’d highly recommend it for some thought-provoking reads. The Carnival is spearheaded by Charles H Green of Trusted Advisor; you can see other editions of the Carnival of Trust here. I know that not all of the entries in this particular carnival are completely [...]

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Hire People that are Better than You

9. January 2008

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I like Skellie better than Darren Rowse. For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, Darren Rowse is the owner of the very popular site Problogger, which gives tips to people who are looking to learn about blogging. Skellie is a young writer who he hired in late 2007 to be [...]

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Let’s (Not) Make Goals in 2008

4. January 2008

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We are now into the third January of my business, which will mark the third year in a row that I did not sit down to establish business goals. I will tell you exactly why: I am a big giant chicken. (Cluck! Cluck!) In my perfectionist brain, I just tell myself that if I don’t [...]

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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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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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5 Powerful Techniques to Help your Business Stand Out

20. November 2007

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If blogging is a business itself, much like publishing or content production, then it only makes sense that the rules of good blogging would be the a variation on the foundations of running a business. As I was reading a guest post by Skellie on Problogger entitled "5 Powerful Techniques to Help Your Posts Stand [...]

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The Art of Quitting

13. November 2007

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I’m an only child, which makes me a natural candidate for the sort of perfectionism that legend is made from. Most people who have met me would laugh when I say that I am an insane perfectionist because my psychosis is so complete that I have learned to hide it extremely well. I don’t know [...]

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Transparency and Analytics

31. October 2007

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As I was reading the post Ten Questions with Compete on Guy Kawasaki’s blog, I was reminded of a recent conversation I had on StartupNation with a designer named Paula about what kind of site information is proprietary, and if website traffic data should be considered proprietary information.
To get to the point, Compete collects information [...]

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Starting a business out of college

1. August 2007

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College students are graduating with a record amount of debt now – how can we turn the tide on this trend to promote entrepreneurship?

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New Podcast for Help with Money Management

26. July 2007

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A new podcast series has been released by StartupNation called "Managing your Money".
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The Five Business Colleagues You Should Have

25. July 2007

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What does it take to launch a business? The help of these five key players in your entrepreneurial team.
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