Month: October 2015
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Intrapreneur vs. Entrepreneur—Which are YOU?
Larry was smiling as we finished our walk in Central Park. We promised to do it ever since I told him I used to do that with a good friend whenever we wanted to share stories and advice on running our companies. While Larry was new to being an entrepreneur, he certainly was not new…
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Top 7 Ways to Wrap Up the Decade With Your Biz
Yesterday I confused my packed class of new entrepreneurs. We just started a seven-day intense entrepreneur start-up course and they were bouncing off the walls with their new business ideas. And it was like I just poured cold water on them when I asked them how and when they are going to exit their company.…
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4 Steps to Ending the Wait for Govt to Bail You Out!
Last week I was meeting with a really cool alternative energy company. Their sales have grown over $5MM and they are anticipating breaking the $10MM barrier shortly. I was barely finished telling them how great it is they scaled up in such a short time when the founder said things could be much better. Things…
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Five Steps to Building Your 2011 Financial Projections
Gene finally got it. His IT consulting business has been constantly pulling his attention from what he has known he needed to do: develop his financial picture, both historic and forecasted. Until September, he never gave developing his forecasts time, since last-minute crisis or unexpected challenges were constantly coming up. Instead, each week we spoke…
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How to Avoid Being a Shooting Star Company
My wife and I were walking around our neighborhood in Brooklyn this weekend. She wanted to get a new pair of eyeglasses. In one store we thought that looked good, she found a pair she liked. When we started talking pricing with various features the clerk asked if she had insurance. My wife explained this…
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Why Rapid Business Decisions is Crucial and How
As he walked into a meeting in the 64-room Georgian Mansion on 5th and 91st St. in Manhattan, he knew he was about to have one of the most important meetings of his life. Napoleon Hill, then 25, was about to interview Andrew Carnegie, then 73. The year was 1908 and Carnegie’s estimated worth was…
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#1 Secret to Selling Effortlessly
This morning I did my usual routine of going to the gym. Except it was anything but usual. Here I was, on the stationery bike, doing my normal intense 30-minute ride, so engrossed in beating my previous time on the bike that I didn’t notice the two people in business suits standing there. Nor did…
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How to Break Out of the Financial Rat-Race
Today I read an article written by a woman who spent her professional career taking care of the elderly just before they died. Helping them prepare for death. In these last weeks of life they would go through any combination of these emotional experiences: denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance. She found…
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Spend Everything You Have This Holiday Season!
I wrote this article a few years ago. Thought I’d update it a bit and resend. Very timely message. My wife came home last night all misty-eyed. She had quite an amazing thing happen at the office, where she works for one of the top acupuncturists-chiropractors in New York City. A very humble woman had…
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VentureCamp provides chance to create start-up plans
INDIANAPOLIS — A first-of-its-kind boot camp for aspiring tech entrepreneurs, being held at one of Indianapolis’ oddest mansions, finds the campers milling by the swimming pool among life-sized, concrete statues. The talk is of digital start-ups and the name-dropping is thick. In their first week of camp, participants heard from Jeff Hoffman, founder of online…