Tag: inspiration
Entrepreneurs: Turn the “Hate” into Inspiration
In October, my posting, “The 5 Things in Business that College Can’t Teach” reviewed 5 important qualities and abilities that are essential for entrepreneurs. These qualities are of such an utmost importance, that I felt it would be beneficial to take a closer look at each. 1. The ability to Adjust (You Better Adjust…If You [...]
How to Make $250,000 From Your Dorm Room, Garage or Trunk of Your Car
Homeless after high school, broke and bad credit after college, my fear of failure and poverty forced me to think about how I could become a successful entrepreneur. What can you do when you only have $1,000 saved from college, no experience or business plan. The answer was easy, just do the damn thing by jumping off the cliff [...]
Inspiring Teens to Find Happiness and Never Give Up in Life
Remember the movie “The Pursuit of Happiness”? Well if you don’t it is the one where Will Smith plays a homeless man who has a son and documents his struggles of trying to survive. However he goes on to be a leading broker at Bear Sterns and then eventually starts his own brokerage firm only [...]
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 businesses easy. It helps [...]
How to Motivate Gen Y
How Effective is Your Sales Rewards and Incentives Program? You May be Surprised… by: Dr. David Brookmire Today, an unprecedented three generations—with distinct work styles and preferences, values, expectations, needs, behaviors, beliefs, and goals—are in the workplace. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Sales, where the latest generation, Gen Y, will soon become the [...]
Featured Under30CEO Writer
Jordan is pretty awesome. Here’s some crazy stuff he’s going to pull off. You can either watch because you think he’ll drop the ball, watch because you believe in him or come along for the ride because you know he’s going to go big.
Don’t Sell Your Soul to Corporate America
Once upon a time, people would line up to sell their souls to big corporations like General Motors and IBM. Of course they did! The corporations were paying a good price: nice salary, prestige, lifetime employment, secretaries to do the typing, decent hours, company pension, not a bad gig at all. I’m sure that the [...]


