StartupStella

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StartupStella - is she fiction or is she entrepreneurial fact?! Welcome to the wry world of Stella, a home-based hoot who graces the pages of StartupNation with her rants, observations and twisted advice, reflecting the realities of what life is really like as a home-based entrepreneur. Here are some fun snapshots of my life.
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A Totally True Spooky Startup Legend

Submitted for your consideration during this Halloween season. A true spooky startup legend. A teenage boy and his girlfriend were enjoying the October moonlight shining on a pond at a park just outside of town. The...
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The Evils of Multi-Slacking

Home entrepreneurs are highly efficient people. They have to be; if they miss that mortgage payment, they lose the "home" part of that title. We're expected to write, edit, post, design, build, market, sell, and 2.3 gazillion...
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Stella’s Startup Cycle

I have found that inventing, starting a business up, and other entrepreneurially thingies follow the same emotional pattern as your first roller coaster ride. Step 1: I'm so excited I could just pee. This is when you...
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An Entrepreneur’s Day Out or Why I Shop Alone

Entrepreneurs are different, that's a common theme on Startup Nation. We work differently. We think differently. And, by the looks of my Startup Nation profile pic, we dress and wear our hair differently. But, maybe that's...
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Now I’m the Expert

Have you got those calls yet? You know, the calls or the in-the-grocery-store chats from your old co-workers, or ex-bosses who are looking at their jobs and thinking maybe the security of a full-time job wasn't...
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Startup Attention Deficit Disorder

Scientists are now studying Startup Attention Deficit Disorder - a condition that causes entrepreneurs to start up new businesses mere seconds after they launched their original idea. I know this from experience. I am a...
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Did I Just Get an Eye Roll?

Labor Day weekend is coming, which means the in-laws are coming--or as I like to call them the out-laws. My hubby's parents are great people, but after I quit work to devote time to my...
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Singing The End of Summer Blues.

I hate to see summer go. Why? The hot days? Nah. The ample sunshine? Uh-huh. The carefree days? Get real. I miss the presence of my free (sorta free) labor source: my children. During the...
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Anyone Else Have That Synching Feeling?

I have a rule: the number of things you have to do will increase in an exponential proportion to the number of gadgets, whizmos, and whatchee-macallits you own. The corollary, no matter how many gadgets,...
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I’m a Square Who’s Behind the Curve

I'm not a techno-phobe; I don't fear technology. I hate it. Or it hates me. Either, or. Yesterday I read about Web 3.0, which was a little disturbing to me, since, until recently, I thought that...
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My Social Networks Don’t Work At All

Don't get me wrong. I love to network. I love to go do the face-to-face with clients and customers. I love beatin' the streets, hittin' the pavement, knockin' on doors, etc. But, when it comes...
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Why Business and Chips Don’t Mix

Does anyone else have mornings like this? You see, the problem with home-based business is that the kitchen is much, much closer. One might say deliciously and dangerously close. And, for some reason, my metabolism starts...
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Did Bill Gates Start His Day This Way?

I woke up this morning--and "woke" is a very relative term--to find a nice present from our dog on the living room floor, a leaking refrigerator, hungry children, and a husband who perpetually can't find...