Thanks to Jonathan for the Profile
Jonathan Fields, author of Career Renegade, drew out the best of me for his podcast with me that he posted yesterday. He has a real knack for getting into the bigger issues, like both sides of...
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3 Things Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know About Exit Strategies
I’ve been hearing that phrase, exit strategy, for about 30 years now. I used it a lot as a standard component of business plans back in the 1980s when I made a living writing them. And I ignored it...
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True Story: Do Entrepreneurs Like Risk?
The answer to that question is: no. Not any more than the next person. They just like their business better. They took risks because they saw the goal. It was the dark side of building the company....
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An Entrepreneur’s Valentine’s Day Challenge
Today is a good day to object to all the phony entrepreneurship lore that has people putting aside life and love for business. The whole mystique of giving it all, being obsessed, and burning the...
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Family Business Succession 4 Years Later: The Rest of the Story
There I was, minding my own business, watching my twitter flow, contemplating my next blog post, when what should appear in my twitter but … well, you can see it here to the right, in the Tweetdeck...
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Torn: True Stories on Kids, Career, and Conflict of Motherhood
Today is the first day of distribution for Samatha Walraven’s book Torn: True Stories of Kids, Career, and the Conflict of Modern Motherhood. I got an advance copy and it’s a good read: for working...
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Reflection: 10 Lessons Learned in 22 Years of Successful Bootstrapping
(I posted this about two years ago on Small Business Trends. I’m reposting it here today because this is a good time of year for this kind of reflection. And maybe also for not writing a new post. Tim...
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Some Suggestions for Family Business
I’ve done business with my wife, daughter, son-in-law, and various mixtures of those. Of course the classic advice on this is not to mix business with family. But people do. I read somewhere that 62...
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7 Questions to Ask Before Doing Business With Your Spouse
I often say “choose an investor like you would choose a spouse.” Sometimes I say “choose a partner like you would choose a spouse.” But what if you already have the spouse, and you’re looking to start...
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Don’t Give Away Ownership As If it Were Just Credit. Please.
Please, entrepreneurs, this is important. Please don’t give away ownership in your startup, ever, except to partners who offer permanent help and value to the business, and will be there forever....
View ArticleThanks to Jonathan for the Profile
Jonathan Fields, author of Career Renegade, drew out the best of me for his podcast with me that he posted yesterday. He has a real knack for getting into the bigger issues, like both sides of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
3 Things Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know About Exit Strategies
I’ve been hearing that phrase, exit strategy, for about 30 years now. I used it a lot as a standard component of business plans back in the 1980s when I made a living writing them. And I ignored it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
True Story: Do Entrepreneurs Like Risk?
The answer to that question is: no. Not any more than the next person. They just like their business better. They took risks because they saw the goal. It was the dark side of building the company....
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Entrepreneur’s Valentine’s Day Challenge
Today is a good day to object to all the phony entrepreneurship lore that has people putting aside life and love for business. The whole mystique of giving it all, being obsessed, and burning the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Family Business Succession 4 Years Later: The Rest of the Story
There I was, minding my own business, watching my twitter flow, contemplating my next blog post, when what should appear in my twitter but … well, you can see it here to the right, in the Tweetdeck...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Torn: True Stories on Kids, Career, and Conflict of Motherhood
Today is the first day of distribution for Samatha Walraven’s book Torn: True Stories of Kids, Career, and the Conflict of Modern Motherhood. I got an advance copy and it’s a good read: for working...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reflection: 10 Lessons Learned in 22 Years of Successful Bootstrapping
(I posted this about two years ago on Small Business Trends. I’m reposting it here today because this is a good time of year for this kind of reflection. And maybe also for not writing a new post. Tim...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Some Suggestions for Family Business
I’ve done business with my wife, daughter, son-in-law, and various mixtures of those. Of course the classic advice on this is not to mix business with family. But people do. I read somewhere that 62...
View ArticleClik here to view.
7 Questions to Ask Before Doing Business With Your Spouse
I often say “choose an investor like you would choose a spouse.” Sometimes I say “choose a partner like you would choose a spouse.” But what if you already have the spouse, and you’re looking to start...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Don’t Give Away Ownership As If it Were Just Credit. Please.
Please, entrepreneurs, this is important. Please don’t give away ownership in your startup, ever, except to partners who offer permanent help and value to the business, and will be there forever....
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