“I see it all perfectly. There are two possible situations — you can either do this or do that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or don’t do it — in the end, you will regret both.” ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life… The...
Articles with the Tag Startup Mindset
Starting Your Own Business Unemployed: Does It Pay Off?
You’ve seen it before: “Make hundreds of dollars in a few days! Thousands in a month at your own pace, comfortably from you our own home!” Those in desperate straits find the claim irresistible. For the right price, they’re hooked, because it sounds like a goodwill prophecy. If you...
Why A Business Plan Is NOT What’s Fundamental To Starting Your Business
Let’s say you want to have income follow you. Let’s say you want it to follow you abroad. A fiery, inexperienced solopreneur determined to move overseas would aim to start a business of some kind to work from anywhere. The focus would be to make money transfers easy from...
What One Thing Shouldn’t You Do When Moving Abroad?
Expats in the know will tell you this was their stupidest mistake. It was to have sought first to buy rather than rent a place. Why was this a mistake? The need for security in your home country may seem fulfilled by owning a house or a condo. But...
Not Moving Abroad Because You Need More Info?
How much information is enough to convince you to move abroad? Expats who have moved say they’ve generally had more than enough information long before making the move, and regret not having acted on it sooner. Why is this so? Part of it is a lack of definition on...
How to Build Your Green Business Out of Roaches With Sheer Elbow Grease
Once upon a time I had a client from Staten Island. His dream was to own a renewable energy business to save the planet and all life on it. But a business like that proved difficult to win, especially since he wanted it home-based. I told my client that...
Neighbors Laughed At Him Until This Local Market Business Secret Made Him Rich
Why not make a fortune as a nobody? Jim Varney did it until he couldn’t keep from becoming famous. He died a multimillionaire. How? He focused on local needs. So very often today we read of one entrepreneur after another trying to make it big universally online or by...
Why Money Starting A Business Ain’t Cheap
Money for starting a business is available for the entrepreneur who can prove that the money will be well spent. This requirement eliminates having to look for grants for starting a business since, by definition, a grant is a gift and it matters not to the grantor how you...
How College Schooling Stupefies Students Souls for Business
A college degree is highly overrated today. Students are graduating without any sense of responsibility or proportion about the realities of life, especially business life. One may even question their intelligence. A while back a college student by the name of Jeff reached out to tell me how he...
Quick Money to Survive by Starting a New Business
Starting a new business for the sake of making quick money to survive from one day to the next is nothing new. Street walkers do it all the time. So do drug dealers. But this isn’t work. It’s bondage to a life of peril and misery. This kind of...
Forgotten Secret to Help You Reach Startup Success Today
The need for mentorship in business is not insignificant. Too many people – too many young and old – receive zero education and training in either launching or running a business. A mentor will share knowledge and experience, explain needed skills and how to develop them to help someone...
Why Some Sales Demos ‘EXPLODE’ in Your Face
Long before professor Victor Davis Hanson classified California as “America’s First Third-World State”, I was a student at the University of California. This was over 3 decades ago. Times were different then. Back then, I had to leave college for a while. My wife became pregnant with our first...
Why Daredevil Entrepreneurs Give Entrepreneurship A Bad Name
An entrepreneur definition worth analyzing is that of entrepreneur Tara Hunt, after her potential investors rejected her business proposal: This is when you go and take a big drink. Tequila has been my favorite… What happened? What happened between that really exciting meeting and this? It’s like everybody...
5 Mini Lessons in Exploiting Small Business Opportunity
The secret of success? According to twice British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli the secret is to be ready for your opportunity when it shows. Are you already dreaming of a small business opportunity? Don’t dream anymore. Seize it. It’s now before you. “Every man has one chance in his...
Starting A Business At Home With Freelancer Help
Success in starting a business at home greatly depends on how good you are at budgeting your existing resources. And in a difficult global economic climate, where businesses are looking to optimize costs, the opportunity for you to start a business at home has enormously increased if you can...