As entrepreneurs, we ask ourselves questions all the time – how we can get more customers, how we can get more money, or how even how we can get more expenses to qualify as a legitimate tax deductions (come on, we’ve all done it). But when it comes to asking ourselves questions, we would be [...]
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I just interviewed my thousandth entrepreneur. Mind you, this is not a conclusion from formal tracking. I myself have been an entrepreneur almost twenty years now. From day one, I have tried to learn from every entrepreneur and business owner that I met. This past week was likely my thousandth interview and I asked this [...]
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Surfside Bagels was wiped out by Hurricane Sandy. The MSNBC Your Business Rescue Team was called into action. In this episode we share recommendations and strategies for recovering from the devastation.
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Systematizing your business is the key to unlimited success and growth. I know you know that. But many people struggle with the “where to get started” part. Do you need to systematize everything first and then cut the business over? Or do you simply automate the stuff you are doing already? The answer is no [...]
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Andrew Mason, 32, the charismatic, but controversial CEO of Groupon, has been fired. After a rocky leadership, profanity laced memos to the SEC, fuzzy accounting practices, SEC investigations, and a whopping 77 percent decline in the company’s share price, Mason now joins the ranks of the unemployed. The firing wasn’t a surprise. It came a [...]
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It is a shame that so many entrepreneurs are afraid to take risks for the fear of permanent embarrassment. Instead of doing something edgy and new, they sit safely on the sideline. They never get hurt or embarrassed, but they never get into the game either. Here is the thing, no matter how big of [...]
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Entrepreneurship is for the young. After all you need energy, stamina, relentless focus, and the most important thing, time on your side. Bullshit! The key to successful entrepreneurship is simply doing it. Regardless of age or circumstance, when the opportunity presents itself, you must go for it. Here are the stories of five “golden year [...]
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Before we get started here, I want to make sure we agree on something. Every hour of our life is an hour closer to our death. In other words each hour we spend, regardless of how we spend it, is a life unit. Okay? Okay. So here is my question for you: How many life [...]
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Woody Allen said 80% of success is showing up. That was clearly before Al Gore invented the Internet. Showing up today gives you 95% of success. I realized it this weekend. I was at a spin off event of TEDxHoboken, and it was nothing short of soul shifting. The speakers were amazing. The techno-violinist was [...]
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I was crankin’ up some good old AC/DC this afternoon, and it got me thinking. If there was a song that spoke to the experience and the spirit of the entrepreneur, what would it be? Instead of one, I came up with ten. Blame it on the old under-promise, over-deliver. Here are my two votes. [...]
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This is the first in a series of posts I call “Break to Fix,” in which I give you examples of how to fix a common business problem by breaking something—breaking with convention, breaking the rules, breaking the way things “have always been done,” breaking up with people you think you need but really don’t. [...]
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A video of Mike Michalowicz speaking about how to differentiate from the competition. This event was for the alumni of Columbia University, held at the FDU campus in New Jersey in February 2012.
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