Joel Welsh, Chief Community Officer, is also the CEO of a new startup company ... Showcase U. Joel shares behind the scenes key decisions being made in the "Birth of a Startup" and knocks it out of the park to provide his own entrepreneurial wisdom.
Being an entrepreneur with a startup company is a lot like playing sandlot baseball as a kid. Growing up on E. 199th Street in Euclid, Ohio we could often get 6 or 7 guys for...
When you are a startup company you learn pretty quickly that your technology infrastructure is based on compromise. There are many aspects of your company that you simply will not consider accepting anything less than...
Time often gets blurred in a startup company. "Normal" does not apply when it comes to workdays or workweeks. But even when you're in a season of 8 day weeks it's important to have a...
I love to admit it, Rich Sloan is right. Do all of your research diligently, assess the landscape of the market, finely define the project at hand, painstakingly lay out a time schedule, assign specific...
I received a text message over the weekend from one of the co-founders of our new startup company Showcase U. It was short and sweet, as text messages tend to be. But it spoke volumes....
As a new startup company, every day and every action item is intense. As entrepreneurs we often act in a fashion that is bold and confident with a "take no prisoners" or "damn the torpedoes"...
Woo-Hoo!! Memorial Day weekend is here!! It's the unofficial kickoff to the summer months. A time when the working world gears up for outdoor activities, fun and frivolity. Today in my hometown of Detroit the...
So what do you do when you wake up at 4am with a leg cramp and then lie in bed for the next 45 minutes wondering if it will come back while the challenges of...
Let's hit the button on the "Way Back Machine" for a moment today. One of the things we took a great deal of time with as we started up Showcase U is talking about, evaluating,...
I've been the StartupNation chief community officer for four years. That's four years of day after day hanging around eager entrepreneurs, and drinking in the most phenomenal information on the planet to learn about starting...
I was just instant-messaging with a small business owner friend of mine who is clearly in need of a Friday afternoon happy hour break from his hectic and wonderfully-full-of-great-business-from-lots-of-clients week. He shared with me that...
Entrepreneurs absolutely have to be scoreboard watchers. By that I mean you must know the statistics (the score) that are critical to your business. We are maniacs about that here at StartupNation. One of the...
StartupNation's Home-Based 100 The Home-Based 100 is the first annual ranking of the best performing home-based businesses in America. But no matter what size your home-based business is, you can enter & win. There are...
The rockin' great web team here at StartUpNation has done it again. This time they've made the Search Functionality on StartupNation.com something to be proud of. You can search major sections of the site: Content,...
The internet has leveled the playing field for small businesses – absolutely. Startup companies can reach the entire globe with their product or service in a way that just wasn’t possible a decade ago. Entrepreneurs...
At StartupNation we see thousands of entrepreneurs. You come in all shapes and sizes. Different ages and hair color. We’ve done radio shows that talk about entrepreneurial characteristics, and articles on the subject of the...
Tomorrow’s the day!! The annual Vermontville Maple Syrup Festival is here!! What began as a joke for Suzanne and I 15 years ago (she told me that she could never marry a man who ate...
So often new startups spend lots of energy on marketing instead of simply doing great business and allowing (with some smart marketing help) the service to speak for itself through happy customers. Here's an example...
I'm going to the Detroit Tigers baseball game tonight with my bride Suzanne. Section 144, Row L, Seats 8 & 9. The reason we're going to this particular game is that the Tigers starting pitcher...
How's that for a brand? Well, if you're a southern rock, blues, country musician in Nashville it works nicely. Type that phrase into Google and you'll come up with Stacie Collins' MySpace page. (While you're...