Posts Tagged ‘startup’
Entrepreneurship at its most basic
Mike | June 13th, 2011Greg Hartle is re-learning the hard way what it means to be an entrepreneur. A successful small businessman with a decade of experience, he set out this past winter to visit all 50 states, to interview 501 entrepreneurs from across the country and, at the same time,to reinvent his life from scratch. On January 5th, [...]
6 great athlete-entrepreneurs and what they accomplished
Mike | June 6th, 2011We all have a great deal to learn as entrepreneurs and we look in many directions for inspiration. Perhaps the most common place we look is to sports and to athletes. We constantly use sports metaphors to describe our challenges, approaches, and successes; how many times have you recently used an expression like “score!” or [...]
Small business and startups: 5 tips for a safe exit
Mike | May 31st, 2011Many of small business owners eventually find themselves at a crossroads and have to give serious thought about winding their way out of the business they built. This can be for many reasons including strategic objectives, retirement, or just plain ennui. Sometimes running a business for many years can lead to questioning the business model [...]
Small business Congress-watch: new laws and your company
Mike | May 23rd, 2011Periodically I check in on the good people in our nation’s capital to see what they are up to and what they have been doing lately for (to?) us and our businesses. Our Congress has the ability to impact what we do every day and how we do it. The profitability of our companies, the [...]
5 Tips for Entrepreneurs on maintaining your focus: checklists rock
Mike | May 17th, 2011As entrepreneurs and founders of businesses we have a great many balls in the air at any given time. The average day finds many of us actively managing a team, communicating with investors, raising funding, performing HR chores, recruiting, keeping the books, executing marketing plans, performing customer service, and taking out the trash. To accomplish [...]
What It’s Like To Be An Entrepreneur – Network After Work
Ross | May 11th, 2011We’re thrilled to be part of a new web/TV reality series – Trep Life – giving audiences a unique, 360-degree view of what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur. Each episode will focus on one company or organization. The first episode was about our friends Matt Maloney and Mike Evans from Grub Hub – [...]
