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Go Full-time OR Hire One!
Posted Under: Tips & Tricks! on 18 Mar, 2011
One of the biggest challenges in escaping from a 9-5 jail is the time requirement to start a new business and make it profitable enough to pay the bills. The side hustle is the usual answer but many of these side hustles never make it to be a ‘business’. Most of these hard working side hustlers, trying to make both a job and a business work side by side, work countless hours, lose sleep, and end up running the business down. They wish they had more hours in the day or if they could simply clone themselves. We all know the first one is not very easy and not to say that the later one is doable or easier, but that’s what we’ll discuss in this post....
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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Suzanne Meyer
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 14 Mar, 2011
Today we are talking to Suzanne Meyer, next guest under the “Our Heroes” series. She moved to N. Carloina in 1994 and was welcomed by a Welcome Wagon hostess who referred her to doctors, dentists, and other local establishments that she needed. After spending 27 years in media, sales and marketing, she also became a Welcome Wagon Representative. For over 3 years she had the pleasure of representing local businesses by handing out coupons and housewarming gifts to newcomers in the neighborhood until one fine morning she got a 90 day notice that her company was being sold and the new company didn’t have plans to continue the Welcome Wagon program. Let’s talk to her and find out more… ...
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Let’s Get Unstuck With Barry Moltz!
Posted Under: Entrepreneurship, Interview, Slide Show on 2 Mar, 2011
Today, I’m chatting with Barry Moltz, the Author of 3 successful books, a frequent Speaker on everything entrepreneurship, a Business Consultant, and most importantly the guy who gets small businesses unstuck. Barry gets business owners growing again by unlocking their long forgotten potential. After successfully selling his last operating business, Barry has branched out into a number of entrepreneurship-related activities. He founded an angel investor group, an angel fund, and is a former advisory member of the board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation. ...
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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Ed Muzio
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 1 Mar, 2011
Today we are talking to Ed Muzio, our next guest under the “Our Heroes” series. Ed is a former employee of Intel where his work ranged from planning future technologies to running development programs for employees. Ed took a sabbatical from his company to reflect on his career and allow enough time to prepare for the employee to entrepreneur transition. He managed to accomplish quite a few things during his transition like helping his parents and starting and running a non-profit during his sabbatical. Let’s dive deeper into his success story…...
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The Side Hustle!
Posted Under: Tips & Tricks! on 26 Feb, 2011
I recently came across this post How to Get Your Job to Pay for Your Side Gig on GenJuice, which instantly reminded me of a post I read quite a few months ago on Under30CEO – 15 ways to use your 9-5 job to start a business and the heated discussion around it. As much as I loved reading both of these posts, I don’t agree with either. I second each one of the productivity tips that the “Anonymous” writer suggested in the article however, I would not encourage the young and aspiring entrepreneurs to utilize these tips to finish early with the day job and spend rest of the day on their side gig. Don’t get me wrong here! The post is full of practical tips that everyone should follow, only not for the purpose that the title & opening paragraph suggests....
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