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Chat With Michelle Goodman!
Posted Under: Entrepreneurship, Interview, Startup on 24 Feb, 2011
Michelle Goodman fled the cube in 1992 to become a freelance writer and never to look back. She is the author of The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube, and the “sequel,” My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire. She writes a weekly career column for ABCNews.com and a blog called Nine to Thrive for NWjobs.com. Her reported pieces about alternative careers, human mating rituals, and other pop culture phenom have graced such media outlets as CNN.com, Salon, BUST, Bitch, The Bark, Seattle Times, Yahoo! HotJobs, PayScale.com, and many more....
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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – David Fraiberg
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 23 Feb, 2011
Today we are talking to David Fraiberg, our next guest under the “Our Heroes” series. David originally started his career as a management consultant and had also started two successful companies, Parkway 360 and Guanxi & Co. David took a bold leap in entrepreneurship when his father was diagnosed with cancer. With nobody by his dad’s side, David became his father’s voice. Shortly after, family and friends were asking for help too, and Concerto HealthPartners was born. Let us hear what David has to say…...
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Business Plan – A waste of time!
Posted Under: Tips & Tricks! on 19 Feb, 2011
I recently read this article “Starting up… Without a Business Plan” on Wall St. Journal Blog, where Colleen DeBaise with the example of a successful entrepreneur who decided to not write a business plan, raises a very interesting question. Are Business Plans a waste of time? First of all, I really enjoyed the write-up as well as some of the very insightful and thought provoking comments! Now, as someone who has done both, started and run a successful business without a formal business plan in the past and someone who helps people start businesses and write business plans, I find this topic very intriguing. To quote a particular commenter – “Last but not least, W. Randall Jones wrote the book, “The Richest Man in Town,” which profiles 100 of the...
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Lawyer Turned Entrepreneur – Jordan Harbinger
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Our Heroes on 19 Feb, 2011
Today we are talking to Jordan Harbinger our next guest under the “Our Heroes” series. Jordan, a former corporate finance attorney, now the co-founder of The Art of Charm, a company that teaches men advanced social skills along with the psychological and scientific factors of dating. Harbinger’s idea originally gained popularity as a podcast talk show, the rest is history. Let’s sit down with Jordan and talk about his success story…...
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The Quiet January & February!
Posted Under: Uncategorized on 18 Feb, 2011
Alright, I’m back in the game… well, I was never out of the game anyways, only a bit quiet lately and today I want to share all what I did and did not do, so quietly in last 6 weeks… So, let’s begin with what I did not do – I did not sleep enough and did not update the blog here! Oh it feel so good taking it off my chest! I missed you all a lot but “I was busy” would be an understatement, in reality, I was crazily busy with: 1. I researched and wrote an extensive business plan for a client in floral industry, looking to raise a little over half a million dollars. If you or someone you know might be interested, shoot me an email and I’ll do the intro! 2. I helped a client break her 9 to 5 jail and bootstrap her startup with $5K of her...
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