Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneur’
Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment
Mike | June 17th, 2013Driving to Bloomington a few weeks ago on my way to the older son’s graduation from IU, I was struck as I always am by the sight of a massive windfarm along I65 in central Indiana. Hundreds of gargantuan windmills line the fields in orderly rows almost to the horizon. Spinning slowly and in near-prefect [...]
10 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Their Interns
Mike | June 9th, 2013Periodically I post in this series about things that entrepreneurs can learn from others and from the world around them. The older we get, the more we discover that we are not to smart and that the best thing we can do is pay attention to the people around us. From them we can draw [...]
Making the Leap: Old Career to New!
Mike | June 3rd, 2013According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American will have between 7 and 10 jobs. We are a peripatetic bunch, moving from job to job, location to location pursuing exactly what nobody really knows. But there is a difference between changing jobs and changing careers and it is the latter that we will discuss today. Job [...]
Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet
Mike | May 28th, 2013“Model” is a verb. It traditionally means to fashion or shape an a three-dimensional out of a material such as clay or wax. In business the verb usually refers to tools that are created to make projections of sales or profits, but can also be used to predict anything from website traffic to manpower requirements [...]
