As Andrew Carnegie says…

November 25, 2009

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. – Andrew Carnegie

Was the saying “There is no ‘I’ in team” around during the time of Andrew Carnegie?  His quote is similar to the cliché, though I like his more.  
Yes, you need a team for [...]

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Entrepreneurial Success Story: Give up your job to…

November 21, 2009

…grow mushrooms?
It sounds crazy, but some people do it. Like Franklin Garland. This North Carolina resident spent years as an electronics engineer before he quit his day job to cultivate French black truffles.
What inspires someone to do something like that? Well, Garland got the idea when he read an article about truffle cultivation in the [...]

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“Where will the jobs come from?” – Kauffman Research

November 19, 2009

We wanted to share with you the research recently released from the Kauffman Foundation that by and large suggests that the jobs in the current economy will come from start-up businesses — entrepreneurs realizing their dreams. Enjoy.

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Global Entrepreneurship Week takes place while job creation talks abound

November 18, 2009

Global Entrepreneurship Week, a worldwide movement of entrepreneurial people, is taking place this week, November 16 – 22, 2009, with activities in the US as well as many other countries — 85 nations to be exact.  From their Unleash Your Ideas / USA website…

For one week, millions of young people around the world will join [...]

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An entrepreneurial lesson I learned from Ray Kroc…

November 11, 2009

In business for yourself, not by yourself. ~
Ray Kroc
If there’s one man who knew a thing or two about putting together a successful, scaled-up enterprise, it was the man behind the expansion and triumphs of McDonald’s.  (You might even say he knew “billions and billions” of things about building a business…)
It would have been [...]

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Your success depends on the support of other people

November 10, 2009

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let’s mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be is the support of other people. ~ David J. Schwartz
When I first went into business [...]

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Small business owners hiring must look through resume and hire person, not contacts or skills

November 2, 2009

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ~ Robert Half
A resume says one thing; the person behind it says even more. Leading an executive search firm, I have hired and placed hundreds of people and have learned that you must recruit The Person [...]

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The 3 D’s of Entrepreneurship

October 27, 2009

From the time I started my first business while still in high school to growing Capital TechSearch to a point where we’ve been on the Inc. 5000 list the last two years, I’ve always had this concept in the back of my mind that there were three pieces of the entrepreneurial puzzle to which I had to [...]

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What can the 2009 Presidents Cup teach us about leadership and teamwork?

October 13, 2009

As most often is said, Golf is an individual sport.  Just you against the course.  And the course is often enough to compete against, even under the best of conditions. 
But what happens when you put a group of professional golfers together – the best in the world – to play in a high-pressure team competition?  [...]

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Does part of the definition of being an entrepreneur include doing something for a greater good?

September 28, 2009

After attending the Inc. 500 / 5000 conference last week, I was amazed at the depth of which successful entrepreneurs will go to reach out and help other entrepreneurs at any stage in their business lifecycle. 
Maybe it’s because we all “chew the same dirt” and face such similar obstacles that must be overcome in both launching [...]

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