Own your room
If you are not reading Chris Guillebeau’s blog The Art of Nonconformity, you should be. Chris regularly writes on three topics: life, work and travel. His view on work, and life, is that you don’t have to live your life the way people expect you to and if you don’t decide what you want to [...]
Please stop
Between judging business plan competitions, sitting on loan fund award panels and responding to inbound entrepreneurial referrals, I read a lot of business plans. Over the past two days I read through five different plans in preparation for the initial review round of a regional loan fund. Entrepreneurs, we need to talk. Remember last week [...]
Is your great idea a great business?
I love this question, and it’s one that I ask almost every entrepreneur I meet with. The conversation that follows is almost always very revealing – not only about the business prospects of the entrepreneur’s product or service, but the entrepreneur themselves. The entrepreneur is sitting thinking they’ve got a 6-figure idea, but then I [...]
