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  • What to Do When You’re Totally Out of Ideas?

    What to Do When You’re Totally Out of Ideas?

    Even before I opened my eyes, I knew I was screwed. Opening them only confirmed it.  The guy I was traveling with had drugged and robbed me of everything I had. I was in a dangerous city in a foreign country, didn’t speak the language and now with no passport, travel visa or money. And…

  • How To Stay Focused On the Important Stuff

    How To Stay Focused On the Important Stuff

    Last Friday, I sat among others in the waiting room of an incredible organization that helps people with hearing loss. The Center for Hearing and Communication is a century-old not-for-profit that has been instrumental in helping me hear and relearn to communicate after my near-death experience in 2002. Disturbing the quiet of patients waiting to…

  • Six Green Movers and Shakers of New York City’s Startup Scene

    Six Green Movers and Shakers of New York City’s Startup Scene

    Entrepreneur magazine compiled a list highlighting thirty movers and shakers of New York City’s startup scene. How many of their startups are green? If you take a look through the list you will find six movers and shakers who are behind green startups. I’d like to give them special attention. Of the “The Hot 30…

  • Knowing When Your Business Strategy Isn’t Working

    Knowing When Your Business Strategy Isn’t Working

    In late February Trayvon Martin, a 17-year old black male, was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old Hispanic, in Central Florida. And while recent evidence suggests Zimmerman did not act in a racially-motivated way, this tragic story has our nation up in arms yet again over the issue guns and race. Zimmerman claimed…

  • Building the Right Support Team

    Building the Right Support Team

    I was nervous as I rounded the corner heading to John Jay Criminal School of Justice in NYC last week. I was invited to mentor and coach a group of 30 or so entrepreneurs just completing a major part of their training. But these weren’t just any entrepreneurs. These were men who completed serving 1-20…

  • Top 5 Ways to Improve Success (as an Entrepreneur)

    I was starting to get fidgety in my seat in the café the other day as I listened to an entrepreneur I had been introduced to. Not because I saw many flaws in her business idea or what it was going to take her to launch it.  Nor was it because she was struggling to…

  • Stuck Launching Your Business?

    Stuck Launching Your Business?

    It isn’t often we get good news from Afghanistan.  So you can imagine my delight when reading a rare exception, as reported in this week’s New York Times. Meet Meena Rahmani, a 28-year-old Afghan woman who recently opened the country’s first bowling alley.  And while much of the country’s businesses are closing, Ms. Rahmani’s six-month-old…

  • The Importance of Accepting What is In Front of You

    The Importance of Accepting What is In Front of You

    It was on September 11th, 2005 that Army Sergeant So thought for sure he was going to die. For it was in the middle of the night while camping out with the 20-man infantry unit he was supporting in Eastern Afghanistan that they were ambushed. No sooner had the hailing bullets stopped when his commander…

  • Five Ways to Raise Capital For Your Small Business

    Five Ways to Raise Capital For Your Small Business

    It goes without saying that raising capital is a major concern for most entrepreneurs. To help you study up on the subject, I’ve put together a list of five of my most popular blog posts on raising capital. 1. #1 Strategy to Achieve Financial Success in Biz Business is a direct reflection of how we…

  • What is Your Exit?

    What is Your Exit?

    It was only when I met Taj Chahal for coffee last week that I learned about his completely UnReasonable life as an entrepreneur. When he was 19 and his brother Gurbaksh was only 16, they started their first company from a shared bedroom in their family’s modest home in San Jose, CA during the Web 1.0…