All Entries Tagged With: "entrepreneur"
Dude, Where’s My Time?
“Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.”
Time – it’s one of the most precious things a young CEO has and yet we often use it so carelessly. Between family, friends, social outings, seminars, and running a successful business, there are a lot of demands [...]
Spice it up: The CEO Swap Experiment
As an entrepreneur, you’re faced with numerous challenges everyday. As you begin to develop and grow an organization, you have to incorporate more traditional management techniques into you’re impassioned, crazy visionary mindset.
One of the obstacles we face as entrepreneurs is that as we develop a certain company culture, there can [...]
10 Online Trends to Watch this Decade
Lots of things are going to change and happen in the online world over the next decade. These are things that every aspiring or current entrepreneur needs to at the very least be aware of. Opportunity is everywhere especially when change happens. It’s time to start thinking ahead and planning out your next million dollar [...]
Staying Fit and Healthy as an Entrepreneur
We all know that a healthy lifestyle breeds better days, better self-esteem and a better sex life. What we take for granted is the way staying fit and healthy can help our productivity and work levels stay at an all-time high while out working, at school, or interacting with peers.
Being an [...]
10 Books Every Entrepreneur Must Read From 2009
Crush it – Gary Vaynerchuk
Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that passion and make a living doing what you love. In Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your [...]
Connecting With Clients This Holiday Season
Step away from the fruitcake. If you’re in the business of providing products or custom services to valued clients, it’s important to show them how much you appreciate their business. Especially this year. And there’s a thoughtful, purposeful way to go about it, even if time and money are topping your [...]
Best Holiday Promotion Ideas Ever
The holidays are the perfect time for promotions and sales. People are spending money left and right and it’s time to capitalize on that for your business, regardless if you are in retail or not. Check out some of these ideas and add your own to enter our contest below.
Twelve Days of Christmas
Why not encourage [...]
Looks and Success as an Entrepreneur
Greasy hair, chipped fingernail polish, scuffed shoes . . . Though they may seem like minor details, they’re all part of a larger picture — the one you’re presenting to colleagues on a regular basis. Whether we like to admit it or not, our looks play a part in our success. We don’t all have [...]
Stop Thinking About It and Go For It: Making the Entrepreneurial Leap
There’s no better time to become an entrepreneur. With more free and low-cost resources available to small businesses than ever before, there are no excuses left for not jumping in. Free communication tools (Skype), free document sharing and storage (Google), peer-to-peer business loans (Kiva) and affordable labor (Craigslist, Elance) make [...]
Tips for Inspiration and Creativity from the Founder of Grasshopper.com
Tell us a little about Grasshopper. Where did it come from and where is it today?
We started in 2003 as GotVMail Communications and re-branded as Grasshopper in May of this year. Our virtual phone system is used by tens of thousands of entrepreneurs to make starting and growing their small [...]
Hiring Gen Y Makes Dollars and Sense
Why should I hire Gen Y? Employers ask me this question every day. Then they start in with their stories about people my age. One of my recent favorites: “I know all about employing your generation. Last year I hired a young guy right out of college. He had good grades and seemed like a [...]
Why You Should Be An Entrepreneur In College
If your profession could be given a risk factor, ‘entrepreneurs‘ would probably fall on the high end of the chart. Because of the ‘risk’ involved in starting your own business with little guarantee of success, entrepreneurs risk all to gain all. With that said, college is one of the best times to start pursuing your [...]
“NetCRED”….. How Much BLING Do You REALLY Have?
Did you know that spammers are the real pioneers of social media? I am serious – they really are.
They were here way before all of our favorite social media platforms! These “spammers” build huge connection lists and then send out their “status updates.” Today, I received 89 emails from “fling,” “free-viagra-before-buying,” [...]
Four Things to Ask yourself As a Starting Entrepreneur
Before you set out on your exciting journey to be an entrepreneur, here are some questions you should ask yourself. They are not meant to rain on your parade but rather a more realistic look into your mind to make sure your heading in the right direction and are doing what you should be [...]
Choosing Your Bootstrap Staff
When I founded CyberSynchs in June 2008, I was challenging myself to move in a new direction. I was a recording artist with a valuable tech idea and I needed to assemble a team of professionals to craft that idea into a reality.
One of my first tasks was to sit down [...]
Josh Shipp Used to Get Kicked out of Class for Talking: Now he Gets Paid to Talk
U30: You’ve appeared on TRL, FoxNews, Comedy Central and Cosmo Girl. How’d you score the press?
I started all this as a professional speaker- going around to high schools and colleges and speaking to large audiences. But that doesn’t translate to media. A speech is one person to five hundred. Media is one person to [...]
