Failure

If there is one thing I have learned in my 41 years life, is that authenticity is the ultimate path to success. Yes, it does yield financial freedom. But, it...

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...

“Your idea is stupid.” Has anyone ever told you that your business idea won’t make it? That your idea is too odd, too unique or too different? That you need...

A hobby is like a meal. It satisfies a hunger pang. But you can only eat so much before you get sick. A hobby brings satisfaction and pleasure, but it...

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...

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...

If your customers feel someone or something is superior to them, they will envy it. And if you are that "superior" thing, envy is not good. When customers envy something,...

  Should you have a Plan B? The answer seems obvious: Hell yes!  But it isn’t that cut and dry.  The real answer, the right answer is “sort of.” Just...

Failure is an extraordinary enemy. It plays unfairly. It gets in your mind. Failure is notorious for its stealthy ability to get lock you into a downward death spiral.  And...

A picture from my "office" at the local town shelter. This is Day 7 with no power, heat, phone or beer at my house.  Damn you Hurricane Sandra. Damn you!