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Strategy vs. Fundamentals
Creating companies is hard. Most fail. Overnight success is rare (my favorite “overnight success stories” are the ones that take 10+ years, like iRobot or Harmonix.) While strategy plays a key part in the outcome of an entrepreneurial venture, the fundamentals matter a lot. Take the following parable that I got from a friend recently.
Business Feasibility Study
There are many ways to go about starting a business. A feasibility study is one of those ways and it guarantees aspiring entrepreneurs more knowledge and control over their endeavors.

Targeting Your Niche Made Simple – Start Small, Grow Later
It's perfectly normal to have big dreams when starting a business of your own. Having this long term vision provides both direction and ambition along the way. To really achieve though, you've got to start somewhere and make steady progress-it would just be way too easy to skip from startup right to industry leader, right? The surest way to ensuring profitable growth is to target and earn the trust of your niche. Start small, grow later.
Involuntary Midlife Reinvention
Every event in life can be seen either as happening to us, or happening for us. How we look at it takes no more effort than Epictetus expended in coming to the realization that we are, after all, the Meaning Givers in the physical universe and that whatever meaning we choose to put on events will, ultimately, determine their outcome and their effects.
Are There Any New Small Business Ideas? No. And Yes.
Not much changes these days in terms of new small businesses. ‘Sell a product, make money, or you don’t have much of a business. What I’m about to reveal to you is an entirely new small business model. It eliminates all of the obstacles of small businesses, home businesses, and network marketing and dramatically reduces the learning curves, eliminates the guesswork, and increases the results for anyone using it. It has a call center in place to follow up on the applications submitted. The call center handles all the marketing, recruiting, phone interactions, and communication aspects of the business, home-based rookies and veterans alike are achieving unprecedented success at unmatched levels
Is Your Career LinkedIn?
Social networking is the buzzword of the moment...Facebook, MySpace, Plaxo, LinkedIn and many more. People are asking, “is it relevant to my career or professional life?” With so many options, it’s easy to become overwhelmed if you’re trying to figure it all out, and you may even question whether it’s worth the time to invest in setting up an online profile.  If you’re searching for a new job, wanting to change careers, trying to advance in your current field, developing your credibility as subject matter expert in your field, or building your own entrepreneurial venture, LinkedIn is an invaluable resource.

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“Tips For Entrepreneurs In Selecting A Venture Capitalist”
As a business coach, I do get the opportunity from time to time to assist, guide and facilitate the search for venture capital and venture capital firms. Recently I have been involved in doing just that and here are some tips on what characteristics to look for when searching for venture capitalists. Characteristics of a good venture capitalist should include:
Strategy vs. Fundamentals
Creating companies is hard. Most fail. Overnight success is rare (my favorite “overnight success stories” are the ones that take 10+ years, like iRobot or Harmonix.) While strategy plays a key part in the outcome of an entrepreneurial venture, the fundamentals matter a lot. Take the following parable that I got from a friend recently.
Ask for advice and control your costs
Ask for advice. I had built a successful business in the past as an employee and was looking to find my entrepreneurial wings. I was able to put together a profile of myself and I didn’t approach venture capitalists specifically to find a company. I went to them and asked them for their council. I wanted their opinions as to where and how I might be able to leverage my assets. That partnership approach worked very well.
100 Attributes of Successful Entrepreneurs, 1-10
Before starting out on your own entrepreneurial venture, read along as GL shares with you his learnings over his own 25+ year startup career. Here are the first ten learnings
Be Your Own Boss
If you have the entrepreneurial spirit and some necessary resources, you can easily venture into your own business and be your own boss.
That’s Gold In Them Thar Vending Machines
First Gold To Go Vending Machine unveiled in U.S. in what might be described as the ultimate entrepreneurial venture.

Failure Is Not An Option
Many individuals are starting their first venture into the entrepreneurial world for the first time. Some have been at it for some time. Whether you just got started or have been around the block, you will be faced with similar issues from time to time. Realizing that startups have a high rate of business closures, especially in the first year, it is important to know the trigger points.
Two Days of Entrepreneurial Community Building in Upstate New York
On Wednesday and Thursday I spent two awesome days with my long time friend Martin Babinec (the founder of Trinet), his partner at Upstate Venture Connect – Nasir Ali – and about 1000 members of the Upstate New York entrepreneurial community.
Lesson #1: Does Your Business Have an SCA?
The first of 5 key lessons that every budding entrepreneur shoul learn. The five lessons are taken from Enterprise and Venture Capital: A Business Builders' and Investors' Handbook 5th Edition Allen & Unwin 2009 by Christopher Golis. The book is based on his 25 years as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist and his talk 5000 Business Plans, 50 deals, 25 Write-offs which he regularly gives to entrepreneurial workshops.
It's The (Growth Of The) Economy, Stupid
Let me explain why I think every American family should have at least one good, solid entrepreneurial venture going these days....
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