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Archive for the “Entrepreneurship” Category
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How to find & focus on a single idea?
Posted Under: Entrepreneurship, Interview, Pre-Startup, Startup on 21 Sep, 2012
Out of the several questions I get every week from my readers, clients, and other folks who reach out to “pick my brain” the most common one looks something like this – “Devesh, I have so many wonderful ideas, I can be programmer, I’m very good at golf, and I can possibly be a chef because my girlfreind likes it when I cook, my cousin is making a lot of money on affiliate marketing and said he can teach me how to, I can start another groupon with those $200 clone sites. Oh my god! So many ideas, so little time and I just don’t know which will be most successful or make me the most money. What should I do? How do I find and focus on that one winning idea?”...
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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Chris Brusznicki
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes, Startup on 19 Sep, 2012
This time for “Our Heroes” we have ex-paratrooper and ex-associate Chris Brusznicki. He started his website GamedayHousing.com during the recession. It was worse than the 9to5 jail for Chris who spent 15 hours a day at Goldman Sachs & Co. Let’s see how he broke out: DD: Who are you and what kind of corporate job were you at? CB: My name is Chris Brusznicki, and I was an associate at international investment banking powerhouse Goldman Sachs & Co. DD: What made you leave the job? When did you realize that you wanted to be an entrepreneur & why? CB: I had always been an entrepreneur and ran my own landscaping business, web design business, and eventually a small real estate portfolio. Even though I did those things and knew that “one day” I wanted to have a...
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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Amy Debock
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Franchise, Our Heroes, Startup on 17 Sep, 2012
Amy Debock is featured in and as “Our Heroes” today! Amy was encouraged to start her own Kumon Center because of her husband’s relocation. Read on to see how she turned an unexpected situation into a great new opportunity. DD: What kind of corporate job were you at? AD: I worked for Allstate Insurance Company in accounting for the mergers & acquisitions department. DD: What made you leave the job? When did you realize that you wanted to be an entrepreneur & why? AD: My husband’s job relocated our family from Illinois to Massachusetts. I had always wanted to start my own business, and over the years my husband and I had researched many different franchise opportunities. I could have easily transferred to a new branch office within Allstate Insurance, but I used the...
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10 Reasons to Bootstrap Your Business
Posted Under: Capital, Entrepreneurship, Financing on 5 Mar, 2012
Getting your startup off the ground takes cash. There are a number of ways to raise funding for your business, but with every investment dollar you accept you sell a piece of the startup’s soul. You want to be able to focus on building a great product, not on balancing the ideas and priorities of a pool of investors....
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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Shelly Sun
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 8 Jul, 2011
Today we are talking to Shelly Sun our next guest under the “Our Heroes” series. Former VP of Finance at Avolar, decided to start a business when she painfully saw the need for it firsthand. Compelled by the loss of a loved one for lack of dependable, supportive, and complete care, Shelly founded BrightStar as a family business in 2002. With 130 locations in US and International expansion in the works, BrightStar is an established elder care, child care and medical staffing provider today. Let’s dig deeper in her story…...
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