…. created a Facebook profile yet.
There’s someone who is completely confused by “@” and “#” symbols next to otherwise names and words.
There’s someone who doesn’t know that traditional advertising is dying.
There’s someone who’s never heard of Seth Godin.
There’s someone who has a cell phone but no texting service.
There’s someone who thinks it’s hard to accept credit cards.
There’s someone who thinks building a website costs at least $25k.
When opportunity knocks, are you fast enough and prepared to answer? Your deadlines, timelines, processes and procedures mean nothing to opportunity.
Joint ventures fail because the joint venture partners are never as powerful as a single owner.
The problem with that thinking is that it takes a heck of a lot more blood, sweat and tears to get that ground floor opportunity off the ground when you’re there in the beginning than it does later on.
Steve at StartUp Blog got me thinking with this post titled The Big Win. In his post, Steve explains how we so often count on the next big thing to get us the big win. But it never happens. In his words, “The big win is a hoax. If we want a big win, we’re better [...]
We’re all driven by the end goal of whatever projects we pour ourselves into. We invest so we have lots of money in 30 or so years. We write so people will read our thoughts and even comment. We play a game or sport so we can win at it. We go above and beyond [...]
It’s amazing how well stories and analogies teach us. Maybe that’s why Jesus often spoke in parables. This gem of a post on Start Up Blog relates growing vegetables to growing a business. The similarities are astounding. A few morsels: The market is a competitive one. We’ll need to fight off bugs, birds and insects, [...]
Great quote here from Seth on how to become a marketer: ”People who want to become great fishermen don’t go to work on a salmon trawler. And people who want to become marketers ought to just start marketing.”
At at conference last week, I was reminded of a very, very important motif for anyone with a pinch of entrepreneurial spirit must keep in mind: Figure out what you’re passionate about, then figure out how to make it profitable. The motivation to make lots of money rarely leads to making lots of money. The [...]
