Tag Archives: Entrepreneurs

When The Time For The Big Cashout Comes, You’ll Wish You’d Planned For It Earlier

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Congratulations. Your hard work and entrepreneurial instincts have paid off in the form of a fast-growing, profitable business that’s worth millions of dollars, or could be some day. And you’re only...
    






Moving Fitness Trackers Forward

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Fitness trackers have enjoyed too long in the sun, considering how little most of them actually do. The push now is to get them to offer more to consumers who’ve until now been satisfied to record...
    






How Did The Democrats Become The Party Of The Rich?

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If you brought back either of the Roosevelts—Teddy or Franklin—from the grave, the most astonishing thing they would find is that the “malefactors of great wealth” have become the benefactors of...
    






CES 2014 in Las Vegas Highlights: RBOT100 (telepresence robot) from R.Bot.US Inc

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The much awaited Consumer Electronics Show (CES), also known as International CES is just only a few days away from now. We have been eagerly waiting for this event since last and can’t wait anymore...
    






11 Reasons 2014 Will Be A Break-Out Year For Women Entrepreneurs

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While women in the upper echelons of corporate America are singing the same old  tune, “Still No Progress After Years of No Progress,” female entrepreneurs have something to rejoice about it. The...
    






Entrepreneurs Aren’t Intellectuals, Until It’s Time To Raise Money

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In a conversation I had with the brilliant small business consultant Michael Gerber 10 years ago, he told me, “…the whole entrepreneurial environment is created by an optimistic view, a young view, a...
    






The 5 Reasons Big Companies Struggle With Innovation

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As I have been doing startup consulting at Red Rocket, I have also had many executive conversations with several big companies.  These companies were anywhere from $150MM to $25BN in revenues in size...
    






Readers Comment on Two Michaels: Dell and Bloomberg

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Career Advice For Michael Dell It’s very ironic: Michael Dell is hoping to pull a “Steve Jobs” with his return to the company he founded (“ You Won’t Have Michael Dell To Kick Around Anymore“). And...
    






A Four-Step Guide To Funding Your Next Fix, aka Startup

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Hi. My name is Carl, and I am an entrepreneuraholic. It’s been seven months and 10 days since I started my last business. As someone recovering from this disease, I can tell you that a few of the...
    






A Year Of Explosive Creativity

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These days I feel like diving into the trenches to avoid the centenary of World War I — and all the rehashing of its causes and consequences. Was the assassination in Sarajevo really the tripwire?...