A tragic statistic tells us that many businesses that are passed on to children or that are purchased by employees fail. Why? The reason is simple. There is a huge difference between the mindset of an employee and an entrepreneur. Before you buy a business or before you as an owner agree to sell a […]
The Sacramento City Council recently voted unanimously to award about $970,000 in public funds to 15 winners of the first annual RAILS program (“Rapid Acceleration, Innovation and Leadership”). The money was given to several programs that are designed to support local technology startups and give young people and underrepresented groups with the skills necessary to […]
The overnight success of companies like Facebook and Uber has changed the way people think about entrepreneurship. It’s no longer a profession for those who simply want to own a business. To be an entrepreneur in the digital age means having the desire to build a brand around an essentially simple idea. It’s as much […]
Leonardo Da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Babe Ruth and Mozart to name a very few were all considered to be a genius.
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines genius as “great natural ability: remarkable talent or intelligence.”
Jim Carrey inspiration to all entrepreneurs from a commencement speech. In about one minute he explains why an entrepreneur becomes an entrepreneur.
Eric Anderton, CEO of the ABC Group, joined me on Money 2.0 to discuss the various aspects of being and operating as an entrepreneur. Eric has a long career as an entrepreneur and businessman, and is also a keynote speaker, trainer, and business consultant.
Successful entrepreneurs believe all beliefs are false. On Wednesday April 03, 2013 I attended an event where Jim Britt was the guest speaker. I’m not sure Jim’s age and I’m not sure he would know or tell you as he would see it as totally unimportant.
The power of marketing made 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year. This is pure and simple a business success story and how true entrepreneurs focus no more and no less on simply getting it done. No excuses, no fear, no procrastinating.
The life blood of what we do as human beings and the glue that keeps us all together as a society be at a local, regional, national or indeed international level is the ability to communicate with one another. Many times that communication breaks down and many times this leads to
Buying or selling a business is a major step for all entrepreneurs. It comes with obvious financial risk which everyone understands and prevents many would-be-entrepreneurs from starting their journey. However, an element not many understand is that the business ownership comes with
Owning and operating a business always comes with many challenges. For different reasons the current recession seems “the worst we’ve ever experienced.”
Everyone hates to fail. Everyone hates to fail at anything. Sometimes it is difficult to find out if and when you are failing. It’s like falling over when you trip. Often you don’t even know you have tripped and fallen until you hit the ground. Owning and running a failing business can be the same.
If you brought ten entrepreneurs together to ask them to make a list of the five most important traits of a successful entrepreneur they would probably finish up with eleven lists. Entrepreneurs don’t like predictability and arriving at simplistic answers. However, if you read each of those eleven lists, I think you would find the following traits on a lot of those lists.
There are many attributes that make successful and strong entrepreneurs. Here’s a look at some of them.