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Today’s Scenario:
You’ve been unemployed for three months, but you’re doing something about it. Yes, you’re ready to take control of your destiny and start up your own business.
You’ve come up with a life plan after poring over the simple process we provided you in our life-changing book. (shameless plug)
You’ve also developed a business plan to [...]

The inspiration for starting a business can come from so many different sources. It happens every day and very often it is spawned from our daily experiences. The two inventor winners from our StartupNation/INPEX promotion, Dave Hammond and James Acevedo, came up with their inspiration through their vocations. Dave was a medic in Vietnam and [...]

A customer walks in the door of your boutique pet store. Even though there are four national brand "big box" pet product retailers in your vicinity, this customer chose to come to YOUR store. Cool.
She’s looking for a dog toy to keep her dog occupied during the day while she’s at work. She strolls down [...]

You know that friend of yours who everyone wants to be around? That’s my friend Johnny. Not only is his warm and laid-back personality magnetic, but he is consistently surprising me with those little extra steps he takes. Its often that "extra mile" that can make a difference between huge success and [...]

A few years ago, my co-worker Ryan and I were discussing fun business ideas over a sushi lunch. What if there were a way to leverage the connections of our first-degree relationships, for either business or personal reasons? Maybe you could find a new customer, maybe a new girlfriend - and because you [...]

As you know, we’ve been blazing trails all over the country on our book tour.
Along the way, we’ve been reminded of a business practice we recommend you consider adding to your mix. It’s a really simple one.
We call it, "Classy Follow Up."
After our recent Denver appearance, we received the kindest correspondence from the organizer of [...]

If you’ve ever travelled overseas, you might agree: we believe there’s no country on earth that sets the table for entrepreneurs quite like America.
Faisal Hazime knows this. We snapped this photo of him (with a Verizon Treo) at his restaurant, Pita Cafe. He’s proudly holding the StartupNation book — he’s mentioned on page XIV of [...]

Over the Memorial Day weekend, we built a wooden play structure from a kit. It is very hard work and I learned a couple of important things:
1) Carpenters and landscapers probably don’t have very nice fingernails or soft hands.
2) You really need a plan.
Without the instruction manual, we would have had no chance. It got [...]