Category Archives: Entrepreneurship

Make This Year Your Best Ever

 Make this year count There is a lot of talk this time of year about goals, resolutions, and change. Companies and individuals around the world have embarked on their new years journey to grow sales, lose weight, enhance customer experience, and improve relationships. Personally, I am not a big fan of resolutions. They seem more…

Entrepreneurs’s Breakfast: Business Wisdom From Successful Bootstrappers

Success is a planned event. Recently, I ventured over to Raleigh to learn from a few of NC’s successful bootstrapper entrepreneurs. The event was part of a series of breakfast panels hosted by Southern Cap Ventures to help educate potential startups on matters like fundraising, operations, marketing, and networking. The panel consisted of  Joe Colopy from Bronto Sofware,  Kent…

The Secret To Never Going Stale In Business and Life

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths – Walt Disney I was having lunch with my friend Elliot Strunk the other day. He is the ringleader of Fifth Letter in Winston Salem and he posed a great question to find out if…

A Million Ways

There are a million different ways to do anything. This goes for marketing, leadership, social media, parenting, managing, etc.  Too often, we (and I am guiltier than most) believe the way we succeeded at something is the only way one can. This is dangerous. Beware if you get to a point when this is the case. Companies…

Focus Intensely

Focus intensely on making the best product (and most useful) you can now. You can figure out steps #2-100 later.  I love this video interview with Mark Zuckerburg from 2005. He is the founder of a college directory product called “The Facebook.” Ever heard of it? Of course, we all know the story. If you can’t…