It’s Time To Start A Movement
We all should live a life that stirs movement. Martin Luther King, Jr. Gandhi. Germaine Greer. Erin Brockovich. Oprah. I’m not a big fan of comparing myself to others, and nor should you be. But when...
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The Dark Side of Passion in Entrepreneurship
Passion. It’s the key ingredient in entrepreneurship. You can’t push a company from zero to one without it. What is it? What is passion? Entrepreneurs know it as the drive that keeps you from going...
Inside the Mind of Entrepreneurs: A Psychological Peek
Risk takers. Success seekers. Wild creators. Entrepreneurs. We all know what entrepreneurs are: people who are willing to take enormous risks to chase new opportunities. Some start business after business, as if no one success...
How to Land Your Dream Job at a Startup
Small business is the new engine of economic growth in every country. Small businesses stimulate demand, generate employment and create business activity. Statistically, 98 percent of all new businesses registered are small business startups. The...
From Layoff to Startup: How to Become an Entrepreneur
There is no set template to starting a business. Each model is different, as is each market, each product and each individual entrepreneur. Although planning is crucial in order for your ventures to be successful, there...
Get Inspired: How Successful Entrepreneurs Do It
Getting Inspired: This is how they do it! In order to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be inspired enough to really want to make your business succeed. But, inspiration doesn’t always come when...
Social Entrepreneur Chad Mulder Is Helping Women In East Africa Redefine Their Economic Futures With “ruly”
Entrepreneur Chad Mulder and "ruly" help to change economic futures one photo at a time Chad Mulder was inspired to create ruly after traveling in East Africa with his wife and young boys as volunteers...
Zenovia Andrews Helps You ‘MaxOut’ Your Business
Let Zenovia Andrews help you 'maxout' your business potential! Zenovia Andrews knows the business strategies needed to increase income, maximize productivity, and overcome workplace hardships, and she wants to share her methods with other entrepreneurs...
Top 7 Things To Do When You Can’t Get Motivated
A few years ago, I had a business partner who simply couldn’t get motivated to make himself get things done. He told me he had the best intentions but simply couldn’t make himself do the...
Monday Morning Mojo: Taming the Monkey Mind
The human mind is a miracle, to be sure. It has accomplished many incredible things such as putting men on the moon and splitting the atom. Yet, this same mind is also responsible for thoughts...
Monday Morning Mojo: Your Thoughts are POWERFUL!
We’ve all heard the saying, “The energy was so thick in that room, I could cut it with a knife.” That energy is felt without words being expressed or eye contact being made. There’s nothing...
Are You Whining or Winning?
I can’t do that! I don’t want to! Wa! Wa! Wa! Sounds like a small child not getting his or her way, doesn’t it? Well, believe it or not, I’ve heard plenty of adults saying...
Fat Man Walkin’! My First 10K And Why Pig-Headedness Is All You Really Need
Quantum Mechanics states very clearly in its various theories that it is possible that you can walk right through a wall, or have a particle from another dimension suddenly appear and then disappear. In other...
Our ROI Revealed – What It’s All About
Usually, the acronym, ROI ("Return on Investment") is reserved for use in characterizing how much money you get out of a deal as an investor. It's basically a financial stat. But the ROI for us...
Teenage phenomenon runs photography business
If you troll the StartupNation website for inspiration, look no further. Signe Brewster, one of our youngest members and a winner in the StartupNation Home-Based 100 "Most Slacker-Friendly" category, has done it, already. Unlike so many...
Unleash Your Passion
I've been lying awake at night... unable to sleep. It'll be 2:00 in the morning and I'll get up and walk around the house, attempting to tame a mind that is racing with ideas. Does...
What is your ”Moonrise”?
There's a phrase used among some photographers when they refer to a peer's best shot. They call it a "Moonrise." They're referring to a famous photograph Ansel Adams shot at daybreak on a morning in...
The Power of “You”
Did any of you catch the "Time Magazine" "Person of the Year" feature? The Person of the Year according to "Time" in 2006 was....."YOU". Now sometimes I think "Time" tries to keep things interesting with...
Cool Company of the Day: Turn Your Head
To coin a phrase, everything old is cool again, and it took a woodworker who thought just like that to come up with our cool company of the day. Tom Bashara started his Colorado Springs-based...
Commencement message made to order for small business owners
They say youth is wasted on the young, but I think good commencement speeches may be too. Last year, my favorite speech was the address given by Steve Jobs at Stanford. This year, most of...