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How Entrepreneurs Find Harmony and Life Balance Working from Home

When your work life is intrinsically intertwined with your home life, the lines can become blurry. This is true for remote employees of all kinds but especially home-based entrepreneurs. You put your all into getting...

byCharlie Fletcher

February 18, 2024

How To Future-Proof Your Startup in 2024

The startup world is characterized by its dynamism and unpredictability. As a founder or entrepreneur, you're constantly navigating a landscape where change is the only constant. To ensure the longevity and success of your startup,...

byJT Ripton

February 1, 2024

The Importance of Building Confidence as a Leader

The last few years have taken a toll on the confidence that managers feel in leading their teams, according to numerous studies and anecdotal accounts across U.S. industries. Managers confess to feeling ill-equipped in dealing...

byDerek Miller

January 13, 2024

Life Planning: What Should You Do With Your Life?

Once upon a time, people grew up, got married, had 2.3 kids, and worked at a somewhat fulfilling job with the same company for 40+ years, then retired comfortably with a gold watch and pension...

byChris Rugh

December 3, 2010

To move forward, work backward

Have you ever heard someone say, "let's do a work back"? I met with a techie recently who was talking about how he approaches creating a great website. He said, "My preferred strategy is to...

byRich Sloan

May 21, 2007

Varied Ramblings about Extramarital Affairs, Assistant-Loss and Media Attention.

This has been an interesting week - not so much business-wise, but due to a friend's personal problem that is affecting us. My husband’s boss (and good friend) just found out that his wife of...

byChris Hansico

April 28, 2007

Lunchtime: I’m in the sales pipeline for small business

A glimpse into the lunch hour of a typical customer: Here's what happened in my world over the past 60 minutes. I was touched by several small businesses, reminded why I do business with some...

byJoel Welsh

May 3, 2006

Has starting a business made you become a workaholic?

I often joke that I am a recovering workaholic. Most of my adult life, I've thrown myself completely into my work and often worked 12 hour days six days a week and thought nothing of...

byJoan Isabella

March 29, 2006

Starting a small business: The Wheat Thins for lunch strategy

Life is full of give & take choices. Finding that balance that works for your own life plan is one of the essential keys to success. For entrepreneurs in the early startup phase, it's often...

byJoel Welsh

March 14, 2006

A Reminder: Don’t Ignore Your Life Plan

I generally dislike forwarded messages, especially the ones that tell me to forward them immediately to ten people or else I'll probably go to Hell. If I dislike them, my husband despises them. So I...

byJoan Isabella

February 24, 2006

Business Plan or Life Plan? Put the horse before the cart

We get lots of questions here at StartupNation. People are hungry for information about how to start and grow their dream business. One of the most popular questions is about how to write a business...

byJoel Welsh

February 9, 2006

NFL Players: Life planning after football

It's Super Bowl week here in Detroit and StartupNation is heading to a special NFL players sanctioned event this afternoon. The Sloan brothers are giving a presentation to current and former NFL players and other...

byJoel Welsh

February 3, 2006

Park Moms, Inc.

We label people. Even ourselves. But it's a good idea to remember your waitress may also be a biochemical engineer; Your mailperson may be a former radio personality (I know one!). One of the things...

byJoan Isabella

December 9, 2005

Finding the ”where” of success

In Rich Karlgaard's book, Life 2.0, he focuses on how people have transformed their lives by moving to a new city, town, tract of land. In reading the book, it reinforced our belief that it's...

byRich Sloan

December 2, 2005

Welcome to the Sandwich Generation

I think I can safely mark in my calendar that yesterday I became an official member of the Sandwich Generation. My son started kindergarten and while he was there, my sister called from the hospital...

byJoan Isabella

August 25, 2005

Your family are your most important people

I have an exterminator who comes to my house to take care of pests. In the winter he plows snow. Paul has owned his pest extermination/snow removal business for 25 years. Every time he comes...

byJoel Welsh

July 8, 2005

Preparing for the worst

Sometimes reality smacks you pretty hard in the face. As I prepared for vacation, I got smacked but good. There was a tragic car accident and my nephew was killed instantly. In a daze, I...

byJoan Isabella

June 24, 2005